Lauren Thoman told Newsweek her foster is "extremely affectionate, very playful, and has no spatial awareness whatsoever." ...

This week the hospital in Mission Viejo welcomed its newest resident companion dog, Haines, as a full-time employee.

More than a pet project, facility dogs can lower patient blood pressure, reduce pain perception, ease loneliness and fear and offer an important form of medicine: connection.

Puppies typically go off to their forever homes at about 8 weeks old. That's when they're more self-sufficient: they're ...