LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Eubank family plans a trip, airplanes are usually out of the question. That’s because the family’s oversized dogs — a Great Dane and a pointer — are coming, too. “Our dogs are part of the family. That’s why they go everywhere we go,” said Mike Eubank, 51, of Overland Park, ...

Prosthetic intervention has been used for many years in human rehabilitation to achieve mechanical and rehabilitative goals, that is, to stand up and walk again. The use of these prosthetic devices has been limited in veterinary medicine although published case reports have existed for over 40 years. “The use of prosthetic devices in veterinary medicine is ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dogs don’t just roll over and play dead in Hollywood. It takes a good trainer and lots of practice. In Jaime Van Wye’s Hollywood Tricks class, dogs learn to throw themselves on the ground and die dramatically. Olive, a 5-year-old English shepherd, goes to the ground when she hears the command “Bang, ...

Whether it is for appearance purposes or for more ease in function and motion, cosmetic surgeries are not uncommon these days. From teeth whitening to liposuction people will sometimes elect to have these procedures even when there is no medical need present. Now, some people are applying these same principles when it comes to their ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — OK Go has gone and done it: turned the band’s “White Knuckles” video into a dog fest of a YouTube sensation with a little help from a goat. The video received a million hits in a day after it debuted on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and was posted online Sept. 20. Sure, the ...