Canine to five

Tubby little bundles of joy, guide-dog puppies may be irresistibly sweet, but they’ve been expertly engineered to perform life-changing duties, discovers Katy Birchall

Dog lover Karen Hardcastle trains puppies to help deaf people

Could you give a rescue pooch a second chance? We meet the women giving them time and love

Volunteer week starts on 2 June so Yours spoke to three women who have transformed their own lives through the healing power of giving

…with a little help from my four-legged friend

That figure could rise further. A wave of cutting-edge canine science is sweeping the globe, with everything from the Dog Aging Project’s 50,000-pet study, to biotech firms racing to develop anti-agei