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A Golden Retriever and a Black Lab just passed a medical test that no machine has managed to crack — detecting Parkinson's disease from a simple skin swab. The disease can start up to twenty years before the first tremor; these two dogs may be the only ones catching it early.

America didn't just add more dogs in 2025 — it added an entirely new type of dog owner. The generation that was supposed to be done raising things turned out to be just getting started.

The largest dog study ever conducted on CBD didn't set out to solve an aggression problem — but that's exactly what it found. Across nearly fifty thousand dogs tracked over four years, one pattern kept appearing that researchers weren't expecting.

A controlled study just put high-carbohydrate kibble and raw meat side by side in the same dogs and measured what happened to their blood sugar, body weight, and metabolic markers. The kibble numbers looked uncomfortably familiar — to researchers who study human diabetes.

They were coming in feverish, vomiting, and crashing into acute kidney failure — and all of them had one thing in common. The disease that put them there had a vaccine. Almost none of them had gotten it.

Every year, the United States Postal Service publishes a list of the cities where its employees were attacked by dogs most often. Los Angeles has topped that list for three straight years. The city that dropped off the list this year might surprise you more.