Category Archive 'K9 Stories'

Dogs in the News…

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

March 25th, 2008, from The Hindu

At a zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, a monk’s puppy acquired an interesting trick. Eighteen month old black and white Chihuahua, Conan, joins his owner , Joei Yoshikuni, in the daily prayers at the Shuri Kannodo temple. Tourists marvel as Conan sits up on its hind legs and […]

DO DOGS…?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Really resemble their owners? Nicholas Christenfeld and Michael Roy, psychologists at the University of California San Diego conducted a study to find out just that. They discovered that pure bred dogs can often be matched to their owners by strangers. But the same does not hold true for mutts. One theory suggests that we choose […]