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China: Labrador Brothers Take Mother Out for Ride in Small Cart

A heartwarming video from Henan, China, captured a filial black Labrador pulling its mother in a small cart, accompanied by its younger sibling, as the three dogs enjoyed their daily walk on July 22, 2025.

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China: Hubei Boy Gets Help From Labrador to Destroy Homework

A video recorded in Hubei on January 26 shows a little boy calling his Labrador retriever to the table and asking it to bite his homework notebook. The dog eagerly tore the pages apart, much to the boy’s delight.

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Guide dog's bleeding said linked to disease instead of stabbing

SAITAMA, Japan - Oscar, a 9-year-old male Labrador retriever, rests next to his owner, a blind man, in Saitama near Tokyo in August 2014. Five months after the guide dog's bleeding was attributed to a stabbing attack, police now say the bleeding might have been caused by a skin disease.

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Guide dog's bleeding said linked to disease instead of stabbing

SAITAMA, Japan - In this file photo taken in August 2014, Oscar, a 9-year-old male Labrador retriever, rests next to his owner, a blind man, in Saitama near Tokyo. Five months after the guide dog's bleeding was attributed to a stabbing attack, police now say the bleeding might have been caused by a skin disease.

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Guide dog raised by inmate

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki (far L) meets a guide dog and its partner, a 48-year-old blind man, at the ministry in Tokyo on June 20, 2013. The Labrador retriever, aged 2 years and 5 months, was raised by a prison inmate and has been recognized as a guide dog by the Japan Guide Dog Association in the first such instance.

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Kinako and her daughters

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako (C) in a police uniform-like costume poses with her daughters Komugi (R) and Mirin at the Kagawa prefectural police headquarters in the city of Takamatsu on April 3, 2013. Kinako was appointed with her daughters as a special member of the prefectural police's education team. She worked as a police dog for two years and three months until the end of March 2013, having previously failed the test six years running.

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Dog awarded for keeping man, girl warm

SAPPORO, Japan - Asako Soma (R) receives an award certificate on behalf of Junior (L), a 7-year-old male Labrador Retriever, in the town of Naie, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. The town government honored the dog for keeping his 81-year-old owner Yoshimasa Soma, husband of Asako, and the man's 3-year-old granddaughter Sukai Kimura warm in an overturned car during a freezing night.

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Cancer sniffing dog

CHIBA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2010 in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, shows a 9-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine and Yuji Sato, head of St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Center in Minamiboso. According to researchers at the center and Kyushu University, Marine was able to distinguish between cancer patients and healthy persons with at least 90 percent accuracy by sniffing breath and other biological samples.

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Police dog Kinako attends induction ceremony

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako, who became a police dog after six years of failing the test, sits next to trainer Shinji Kameyama wearing a medal presented during an induction ceremony held the same day, at Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Jan. 6, 2011.

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7th time lucky for apprentice police dog Kinako

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Dog trainer Shinji Kameyama gives a pat to Labrador retriever Kinako in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2010, as the Kagawa police said the same day that the dog has passed this year's test to become a police dog after failing for six years in a row and is set to start working in January 2011.

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Guide dog enters Imperial Palace for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) speaks to Shinichi Fukushima (C), 74, a former chairman of an association of visually impaired persons in Kyoto, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 7 with Fukushima's guide dog, Luca, a four-year-old male Labrador Retriever, sitting by his side. About 600 recipients of this year's autumn honors, including Fukushima, met the emperor at the palace. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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'Oxygen' dog demonstrated

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuo Yamauchi, 72, who suffers from chronic respiratory difficulties, demonstrates how his 'oxygen dog' Ben, claimed to be the first in the world, helps him when he goes out at a meeting of the Japan Respiratory Society in Tokyo on July 5. The 18-month-old Labrador retriever, originally trained to be a guide dog, walks with a special cart loaded with a 3-kilometer oxygen cylinder.

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Guide dogs born through artificial insemination

SAPPORO, Japan - Tsukushi, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever bred by Akiko Toki of Sapporo's Teine Ward, feeds her six puppies which she gave birth to through artificial insemination. The Hokkaido Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said May 8 it conducted the artificial insemination, using sperm of another guide dog, for the first time in Japan. The puppies, six males, were born in March and are in good health.

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Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.

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Guide dog enters Imperial Palace for 1st time

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) speaks to Shinichi Fukushima (C), 74, a former chairman of an association of visually impaired persons in Kyoto, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 7 with Fukushima's guide dog, Luca, a four-year-old male Labrador Retriever, sitting by his side. About 600 recipients of this year's autumn honors, including Fukushima, met the emperor at the palace. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Police dog Kinako attends induction ceremony

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Labrador retriever Kinako, who became a police dog after six years of failing the test, sits next to trainer Shinji Kameyama wearing a medal presented during an induction ceremony held the same day, at Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture on Jan. 6, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Guide dog's bleeding said linked to disease instead of stabbing

SAITAMA, Japan - In this file photo taken in August 2014, Oscar, a 9-year-old male Labrador retriever, rests next to his owner, a blind man, in Saitama near Tokyo. Five months after the guide dog's bleeding was attributed to a stabbing attack, police now say the bleeding might have been caused by a skin disease. (Kyodo)

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Cancer sniffing dog

CHIBA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2010 in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, shows a 9-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine and Yuji Sato, head of St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Center in Minamiboso. According to researchers at the center and Kyushu University, Marine was able to distinguish between cancer patients and healthy persons with at least 90 percent accuracy by sniffing breath and other biological samples. (Kyodo)

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7th time lucky for apprentice police dog Kinako

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Dog trainer Shinji Kameyama gives a pat to Labrador retriever Kinako in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2010, as the Kagawa police said the same day that the dog has passed this year's test to become a police dog after failing for six years in a row and is set to start working in January 2011. (Kyodo)

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Dog awarded for keeping man, girl warm

SAPPORO, Japan - Asako Soma (R) receives an award certificate on behalf of Junior (L), a 7-year-old male Labrador Retriever, in the town of Naie, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. The town government honored the dog for keeping his 81-year-old owner Yoshimasa Soma, husband of Asako, and the man's 3-year-old granddaughter Sukai Kimura warm in an overturned car during a freezing night. (Kyodo)

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Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.