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Donny Eslinger, a U.S. Soldier on tour of duty in Afghanistan, adopted an adorable dog that he named Smoke-pup Barbarian. But after Eslinger was critically wounded during a mortar attack and shipped to Germany, he was forced to leave his dog behind.

A fisherman who was kayaking on the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend made a very unusual catch, a dog swimming for his life off the Siesta Key coast. If you're as much a dog lover as me, watch this You Tube video. I promise you it has a happy ending. This is one lucky dog and one very nice fisherman!

Here’s a missing dog story that trumps all others. An adorable dog named Petunia was finally returned to its family in Virginia after she went missing eight long years ago.

We’ve all made the assumptions about a person based on whether they own a cat or a dog. But do these stereotypes have any basis in real life? The folks at Hunch.com set out to answer that question by polling nearly 200,000 pet owners on whether they have a cat or a dog and then crossing that information with general lifestyle question the respondents also answered. Read on for the results of the s

In what will no doubt go down in history as one of the biggest “epic fails” in hunting history, a dog in Utah accidentally shot his owner in the backside with a 12-gauge shotgun. The dog’s name? Dick Cheney. We kid, we kid.

By nudging a tennis ball down a flight of stairs — and then beating the ball to the bottom — a very clever Jack Russell terrier named Sid has figured out a way to play fetch with himself.

A dog with suspiciously human-like hands is able to play a jaunty tune on the piano. Check out what this musically talented (and well-dressed) German shorthaired pointer can do below.

Excellent guard dog. Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more drug pushers, thieves, murderers, or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.

This pooch was able to stay perfectly still as his owner built a Jenga-like tower of tempting dog treats right on his snout. Then the canine continues the balancing act until getting a signal that the trick is over.

Harbor, an eight-year-old coonhound, has a 13.5-inch-long right ear and a 12.25-inch-long left one, earning the pooch the Guinness World Record for longest ears on a living dog.

Will DaSilva took his pet pug Otis skydiving when he was just a puppy. Otis just turned ten years old and has been on 64 jumps. Otis looks adorable with his cheeks flapping in the wind, but is it safe for dogs to skydive? Does Otis really enjoy falling through the air?

It's not just the human spirit that can show amazing resiliency in times of crisis. A dog named Mason who was blown out of his home when a tornado tore through North Smithfield, Alabama on April 27 crawled back three weeks later. And we do mean crawled.