Dog Training

A recent scare that could have turned tragic made a Clovis, Calif., couple do something they had never done in the 10 years they’ve lived in their home.

JOHNSTOWN TOWNSHIP — On a muggy Monday morning, Ted Smith flung bright orange nubby tubes into the tall grasses and popped a classic retriever trainer overhead, simulating the crack of a gun and fluttering descent of a duck. At his command, a giddy black Labrador named Annie Get Your Gun dashed for the fallen prizes.

SEOUL - A South Korean firm said Monday it has successfully cloned four dogs capable of sniffing out human cancers by using tissue from a retriever in Japan.

The weather’s fine, and you’d love for your dog to get the kind of exercise and socialization that can’t happen at the end of a leash. Maybe you even have a new dog park in the neighborhood.

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