Whereas every dog lab now tests the cognition of its animals while their human owners are blindfolded or asked to face away, young children are still presented with cognitive tasks while sitting on their mothers' laps.

WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

The three-hundred-year-old Dog of Ageless Wonder, which Tibetan monks treat as holy, is kidnapped by agents of an American pharmaceutical company, where a craven scientist (Robert Downey, Jr.) is seeking the serum of eternal youth, but a teen-age animal-rights activist, Carly (Zena Grey), springs the dog from the lab and brings it home to her family.

NEWYORKER: The Shaggy Dog

She still hadn't found the dog, a chubby blonde lab named Gracie, on Wednesday.

CNN: One block, two tornadoes: Life in the crosshairs

Supposedly the science started in the 1850s when, in the lab of an English scientist, a dog that had been fed quinine bisulfate for an upset stomach urinated on a tray.

FORBES: As Clear As ...

Giffords has a service dog -- Nelson, a golden lab -- with her at all times.

CNN: SHARE THIS

It is a division of Bio Pet Vet Lab, which first introduced DNA testing as a way for adopters or dog rescuers to establish the lineage and breed components of their dogs through DNA testing.

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