A-oooooga! The sound of the approaching tugboat shatters the night’s fog. I make the boat sound with my own wet mouth.

Last year, a Tibetan mastiff reportedly sold to a Chinese businessman for $2 million. Now, the New York Times reports, surplus mastiffs are being sold to slaughterhouses for $5 each.

Roo is a five-month-old black-and-white animal who hops around on her hind legs. Despite her unusual coloring, she seems verily a kangaroo; witness her athletic haunches, upturned tail, and quintessentially kangarooish posture. But what if she's actually a dog?

A dog, Gawker's best-known columnist, explores the mysteries of nature in today's column: "Trees are not sticks. It's important to remember that. Sticks can fit in your mouth." A dog maintains a Kinja blog here.

We're extremely pleased to announce the hiring of a new Gawker columnist, a dog, who will maintain a blog at dog.gawkerarchives.com. Please enjoy a dog's first column, "Hey."

Reddit user BrazilianDanny filmed his recently-injured Yorkie, named Kiwi, trying (and failing) to catch a few balls thrown her way. (“She had both knees operated on just 4 months ago,” Kiwi’s owner explains.)

This pet dog from Maryland went missing in Maine during nine days and nights of insanely cold weather, and it was only rescued after it was hit by a car that nearly killed it. How's your January going?

An Arkansas man paralyzed from the waist down told police he awoke Monday morning to a "burning pain," only to find his dog chewing on a ball. His ball, that is.

Kaiser, a 2-year-old German Shepherd who has served valiantly as a member of the Plymouth (MA) Police Department's K-9 unit since he was five months old, had to be put down last week after a rapid decline in health due to a sudden onset of kidney disease.

A quick-thinking train engineer is being credited with saving the life of a 10-month-old poodle-terrier mix who was tied to the tracks by his elderly owner.

A man in Argentina was either ripped off or not depending on your view of paying for a toy poodle and getting a giant ferret instead.

A gay couple in Oregon says it was their pink poodle Beauty who prompted a man to violently attack them in broad daylight last Friday.

Little Tasuku and his French Bulldog Muu are inseparable.

It's unclear how or why Tonik the eerily humanoid poodle/Shih Tzu mix ended up in a kill shelter in Kentucky, but the good news is that he is no longer there.

This healthy male American Bulldog mix is scheduled to be put down later today at the Rabies Control shelter in Jackson, Tennesee.

In August, Dean Weeks, a firefighter in Clinton, Massachusetts, was ordered to fix his ex-wife's dryer as part of his divorce settlement. But apparently, he was still having some issues with his ex, so he (allegedly) did the reasonable thing, which is: he booby trapped her dryer to explode the next time she used it.

"It's extraordinary. We only see this in TV movies," veterinarian Philippe Michon exclaimed, describing the incredible survival story of Ethan — a Jack Russell terrier poisoned and left for dead inside a shallow grave.

A driver traveling from Taunton in Massachusetts to East Providence, Rhode Island, accidentally ran over a dog at 50 miles per hour.

A loyal dog died last week after he was hit by a train in Kazakhstan while dragging his suicidal owner off the tracks to safety.

An elderly couple died yesterday while attempting to rescue their dog from a pond in Westfield, Massachusetts.