International

We all know service dogs can perform extraordinary tasks such as, turning on and off lights, opening doors, picking up things from the floor, and guiding the visually impaired on the streets, but have you ever heard of a dog that can help tend a farm?

Meet Lemon, a Riesenschnauzer from the city of Tara in Omsk Oblast. This dog helps his 47-year-old owner, Alexander Matitsyn, with the daily tasks of the farm.

These dogs know that you don’t have to be a dog to be part of a pack – any creature with a kind heart will do!  Check out these 15 dogs and their best buddies.

Measuring only 4 inches tall and weighing 13 oz, Tyson is Britain’s smallest dog. The Chihuahua and Ihasa mix dog is only five months old and his tiny proportion might fool many yet this little dog is a fur ball full of energy.

Spiderdog, Spiderdog – does whatever a spiderdog does!  In this case, it’s scaring a number of unsuspecting Polish passersby.  Her real name is Chica, but she’s happily enjoying the attention she’s getting as an arachnid… wait, what do you call an animal with 12 legs??

When Doris Yepes Cáceres was watching the news at home, she never expected to see Rocky, her lost dog, on the live feed. But she did, and moments later she was hugging and kissing her beloved dog.

For Americans, weddings between a woman and a dog just aren’t normal, but in India, such customs still exist and it has nothing to do with animal abuse or bestiality. Eighteen-year-old Mangli Munda from Jharkhand, India, recently married a dog after the village holy man told her and her parents that the family had been cursed. According to the spiritual man and village traditions, the curse could only be broken if the girl married a dog.