Bo, the bloodhound, successfully tracked a 7-year-old child who had been kidnapped at knifepoint. Once the dog picked up the scent from the child’s clothing, he tracked the child over 7 miles during a four-hour period.

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality…”

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

(1917–1963)

A New York judge recently set a new legal precedent regarding man’s best friend. After a dog named Duke was killed in a car crash, the court recognized that his death was not just a property loss. It was the loss of a relationship with a family member whose life mattered.

This is the first time in New York that emotional harm (rather than loss of property value) from the death of a dog has been recognized in this way.