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Sixty-year-old talent-maven Billy Sammeth managed both Joan Rivers and Cher for more than 20 years. He also has managed Olivia Newton-John and, during the early part of his career was the PR guy for the Osmonds. He still manages K.C. and the Sunshine Ban
A German shepherd named Cappy, handled by James Moses, competes in the herding group, in which Cappy was victorious, at the 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. View Photo »
They've got those smiles that are somewhere between super friendly and a German shepherd whose backyard you've walked into
Dear Dr. Fox • My German shepherd mix is about 3 years old. We adopted her when she was about 10 weeks old and gave her lots of TLC. Until recently she was a friendly, outgoing and trustworthy dog. But now it's like a shadow comes over her, and she gets
But the notorious Unit 731 did more than just breed diabolical diseases. It also maintained a research center where Japanese scientists conducted cruel experiments on POWs and civilians, often slicing open living subjects to remove their hearts. Now, aft
By Lawrence Gerson, V.M.D. Veterinarians hate to give pet owners bad news. People today have a greater emotional attachment to their pets than in the past. Dogs and cats have moved from the farm and the backyard to being house pets. Not only do our four-
A man plays with his German Shepherd dog on a street during heavy snowfall in the centre of Belgrade February 3, 2012. Fresh heavy snowfall has caused traffic chaos in Belgrade and other Serbian cities. View Photo »
Pradeep Ghose, vice-president, German Shepherd Club, Calcutta, and Deepak Kumar, a medical expert at Veterinary College, Tata (Jamshedpur), judged the events.
SUSAN Orlean tells LEE RANDALL why the story of Rin Tin Tin is packed with human drama When Corporal Lee Duncan found a litter of German shepherd puppies on a bomb-blasted battlefield in eastern France, he took it for a lucky sign. It was 15 September, 1
The German Shepherd Dog (GSD, also known as an Alsatian), (German: Deutscher Schäferhund) is a breed of large-sized dog that originated in Germany. German Shepherds are a relatively new breed of dog, whose origins date to 1899. As part of the Herding group, the German Shepherd is a working dog developed originally for herding sheep. Because of... Full Article
A man plays with his German Shepherd dog on a street during heavy snowfall in the centre of Belgrade February 3, 2012. Fresh heavy snowfall has caused traffic chaos in Belgrade and other Serbian cities.
View Photo »A transport police officer with her German shepherd dog checks a polling station, put up to enable passengers using transit trains to vote, at the central railway station in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk December 3, 2011. Russia goes to the polls for parliamentary elections on...
View Photo »An unidentified Azeri rescuer speaks with Cip, a 5-year-old German shepherd who on Thursday found 18-year-old youth Imdat Padak alive under the rubble of a collapsed building more than 100 hours after Sunday's 7-2-magnitude quake, in Ercis, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. The...
View Photo »In this photo provided by Westside German Shepherd Rescue, Troy, a German shepherd, arrives in an SUV Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 at the Westside German Shepherd Rescue in Los Angeles during a transfer of 60 shepherds to a new state-of-the-art facility designed specifically for the K-9s. The...
View Photo »Azeri, Roman Akisen carries Cip, a 5-year-old German shepherd who on Thursday found 18-year-old youth Imdat Padak alive under the rubble of a collapsed building more than 100 hours after Sunday's 7-2-magnitude quake, in Ercis, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. The 213-person team from the...
View Photo »Pavel Misenko, 27, an Azeri rescuer and his four-year-old German shepherd dog, Max, search in the debris to find survivors trapped under the debris of a collapsed building where seven people are believed buried in Ercis, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. The powerful Sunday quake in...
View Photo »A German Shepherd for sale is chained to a pole at an animal market in Bab al-Aziziya, Moammar Gadhafi's former compound in the heart of Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011.
View Photo »A German shepherd dog attacks a trainer, who fired a Kalashnikov automatic gun, during an annual cynologist competition held by members of the regional penitentiary camps system, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 22, 2011.
View Photo »A German shepherd dog attacks a trainer during an annual cynologist competition held by members of the regional penitentiary camps system, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 22, 2011.
View Photo »This July 20, 2011 photo shows German shepherd Bolto giving Neil Dorame a lick as they pose for photos in front of their home in Fullerton, Calif. When the Dorame family got Bolto as a puppy last year, they decided to have a microchip implanted in the dog with an identification number...
View Photo »This Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 photo shows Luis Calderon with his German shepherd, Buddy, right, and his wife's dog Lola, left, in El Monte, Calif. Calderon, a self-employed handyman, has a wife and two kids and says work is scarce. If Buddy needed a vet, Calderon says he would have to...
View Photo »In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 photo, Luis Calderon offers dog food to his German shepherd, Buddy, in El Monte, Calif. Calderon, a self-employed handyman, has a wife and two kids and says work is scarce. If Buddy needed a vet, Calderon says he would have to go through public services...
View Photo »Alex, a seven-year-old German shepherd, guards the carcass of her mother, Lexus, that was thrown by the April 27 twister onto the rubble of a neighbor's house in Concord, Alabama, in this picture taken on April 28, 2011 and released on May 22, 2011. The deluge of pets displaced by...
View Photo »In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 photo, Mary Kay Benson gives German shepherd Heidi a surfing lesson at the training pool, complete with colorful beachfront murals on the walls, at the Barkley Pet Hotel & Day Spa in Westlake Village, Calif. Boarding your pet has changed a lot over the...
View Photo »This photograph taken on July 24, 2011 shows Britt, a 6-year old German Shepherd and handler US Army Sergeant Brian Malbrough (not in photo) of US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit on a patrol mission with troops from 1st Battalion 67th Armoured Regiment, Task Force Dealers in Arghandab...
View Photo »This photo taken on August 14, 2011 shows US Army Staff Sergeant Lindsey Thompson of US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit and Mayo, a German Shepherd, preparing to board a convoy of armored vehicles with troops from Bravo and Delta Company, 2-87 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Combat Brigade Team at...
View Photo »This photograph taken August 14, 2011 shows US Army Staff Sergeant Lindsey Thompson of US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit holding Mayo, a German Shepherd as they prepare to board a convoy of armored vehicle from Forward Operating Base Pasab for an overnight ground assault mission in...
View Photo »This photograph taken July 24, 2011 shows US Army Sergeant Brian Malbrough of US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit playing with Britt, a 6-year old German Shepherd at the Forward Operating Base Walton before going on patrol with 1st Battalion 67th Armoured Regiment, Task Force Dealers in...
View Photo »This photograph taken July 24, 2011 shows US Army Sergeant Brian Malbrough of US Forces Afghanistan K-9 unit and Britt, a 6-year old German Shepherd inspecting a vehicle for explosives at the Afghan National Army compound in Arghandab district. Britt who has a rank of Staff Sergeant is...
View Photo »Eddie Gordon, still recovering from multiple injuries he sustained during the tornado that separated his family from their German shepherd Alex on April 27, is reunited with the dog at the Birmingham-Jefferson County Animal Control shelter in this photograph taken on May 19, 2011 and...
View Photo »Azeri and Turkish rescuers pulled out alive 13-year-old Ferhat Tokay from the rubble of a collapsed building some 108 hours after Sunday quake hit eastern Turkey, in Ercis, Van, Turkey, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. The death toll was increased Friday as officials are able to gather more...
View Photo »A man plays with his German Shepherd dog on a street during heavy snowfall in the centre of Belgrade February 3, 2012. Fresh heavy snowfall has caused traffic chaos in Belgrade and other Serbian cities.
View Photo »They've got those smiles that are somewhere between super friendly and a German shepherd whose backyard you've walked into
Pradeep Ghose, vice-president, German Shepherd Club, Calcutta, and Deepak Kumar, a medical expert at Veterinary College, Tata (Jamshedpur), judged the events.
I’d been rushed one day by an off-leash German Shepherd while walking a dog in Lincoln Park and managed to leave without further incident. In that particular area, a lot of people let their dogs run off-leash. The next day I took a different route to avoid any problems and ran into the same dog off-leas...
David Wicks has wholeheartedly embraced the Mutt-i-grees Movement, both professionally and personally ... He has taken every opportunity to promote the message that adoption is the best option when looking for a pet. He himself adopted a German Shepherd Mutt-i-gree from the Animal League and appropriate...
No one challenged the imagination of millions of baby boomers more than Roy Rogers ... Whether it was playing cowboy in the back yard or dreaming of having a palomino horse or German shepherd dog of their own after watching one of the 88 movies or 100 episodes of the Roy Rogers Show, young minds were in...
I cannot tell you what a great feeling it is to be the owner/ breeder of three of the Top 10 German Shepherd in Manitoba. That alone is an incredible accomplishment in the short eight years that I have been breeding and showing German Shepherds. I look forward to the many years ahead and the accomplishm...
There was no gate and no sign that there was a dog so it could have been anyone knocking on the door. It just charged out at me. It was a huge German Shepherd – if it had been a child it would have knocked it to the floor.
If I have a choice about almost any trip ... I'd rather be home with Tabuca -- he's a German shepherd -- and Nico the cat. I have my books there, the TV; I have my room and all.
