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.

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the will to do what is right in spite of it.”

Sabina Wurmbrand, 1913-2000

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.