Jessie Holmes and his team of sled dogs successfully defended their Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race title this week, becoming the first musher to accomplish the feat in a decade.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
The grueling sled dog race covers about 1,000 miles in the Alaska wilderness.
Cassie is trying to become social-media famous, suggestively flashing her all-American assets online in a variety of fetishy costumes (a puppy dog, a pacifier-sucking baby).
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Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog—
Eyes.
Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
Silver moment of the Games: Everyone loved it when Nazgul, the 2-year-old Czech wolf dog, joined the women’s cross-country competition at the end and ran, without benefit of skis, across the finish line.
Two Yuba County sheriff’s deputies fired their weapons at a kidnapping suspect Thursday afternoon during a vehicle pursuit, but the man was not hit and continued to flee until he was bitten by a police dog and taken into custody.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
1 May 2026
Video released on Thursday, April 30, appears to show a police dog sniffing White House Correspondents' dinner accused shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, moments before shots were fired on Saturday, April 25.
The royal family is seen lying side-by-side in a grassy meadow with their dogs, Orla, an English black cocker spaniel, and a recent addition to the family, a cocker spaniel puppy from Orla's litter.
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Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
Also, limit your puppy or unvaccinated dog’s exposure to other dogs, The Animal Foundation advised.
The video of the pup has quickly gone viral, with the contrast between a high-stakes NFL moment and a dog’s quiet persistence resonating with viewers across social media.
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