The fox is a clever beast, famously outsmarting human and animal rivals in ancient fables, recent movies and a current Top 10 song. Humanity's relationship with the fox has long been balanced between bemused tolerance and "let's shoot them for fun and raise them in cages, for fur." But there are abundant signs that the foxes have had quite enough of people, and are making coordinated global moves to take over civilization.

Last Friday night, a bruised and battered dog suddenly showed up on the front porch of an unassuming house in north Nashville.

Sometimes, you don't even need the breathalyzer.

"Acupuncture started as a procedure for horses, according to Dr. Marc Siebert at the Lower East Side Animal Hospital, so there’s no reason not to be using it on dogs now."

A real-life Lassie story unfolded in South Carolina earlier this year when a dog alerted its owners to the possibility that their infant son was being physically abused by his babysitter.

When firefighters arrived at an apartment fire in McMinnville, Oregon on Monday night, they found two pit bulls trapped on a second-floor balcony. The first dog managed to climb up onto the railings and balance itself before finally realizing it needed to jump. The second dog was also able to jump off the deck once a firefighter removed some railings.

In the immortal words of Louis C.K., bringing home a puppy is a "countdown to sorrow."

This interspecies battle comes courtesy of Anthony Gill, a father and dog-caretaker living in from Australia, where kangaroos are very prevalent creatures. One afternoon, Gill's great dane Max decided to run after a small mob of roos and ended up getting slapped around by one of the aggressively defensive marsupials. More specifically:

Two new paintings by former president George W. Bush, published for the first time here on Gawker, give us a new window into the ongoing development of the tortured artist/torture advocate—and opens the possibility for a new phase in his oeuvre: cats.

Happy National Dog Day! Post photos of your dog here, please. Or really any dog, at all. Or just write a story about a good dog you saw, once.

"Detroit," the name of an area of ruins that was a vast manufacturing center in ancient times, is having a tough run. It's lost a million residents. It's gone bankrupt. But one thing Detroit can still be proud of: its roaming packs of wild dogs.

A boat commuter and a group of windsurfers worked together Monday to rescue a puppy from the middle of the San Francisco Bay.

With record numbers of Americans keeping dogs and cats as pets, we are plagued by many unwelcome consequences. House cats are inflicting brain damage on their human hosts with a feline disease spread through the animals' fecal matter, which people store in their homes—usually in the kitchen. When the cats are sent outdoors to defecate, they kill staggering numbers of wild birds, leaving many of our cities without any avian life beyond the feral pigeons roosting safely upon the ledges of tall buildings. Then there are the dogs, which use the entire city as one great, unflushable toilet. There are valid arguments against the existence of all dogs, but even animal lovers can agree we need to do something drastic about the "toy breeds."

A Washington father of one who blew up the family dog because he believed it was possessed by the devil will not be charged with animal cruelty because, according to authorities, the dog didn't suffer.

As if you needed additional proof that dogs are the best, one couple is crediting their pets with helping them find true love.

Unlike most Internet-famous dogs who find celebrity while still in the prime of their puppyhood, Schoep was 19 years old when he suddenly found himself swimming in Facebook likes.

Carla Cheney's shift at a Kemptville, Ontario, Walmart hadn't yet begun when she saw a customer leave his dog, a heavy-coated Newfie, inside his car on a particularly hot day this week.

A fluorescent pink, 200-pound dog has gone missing from the streets of West Hollywood, and authorities are mystified as to how it was stolen, or where it could possibly be.

A 5-year-old boy whose family's home was destroyed during last month's tornado in Oklahoma was killed by a bull mastiff over the weekend. The dog belonged to a family friend, who the boy had been staying with since the tornado.

Her daughter Kate proves herself a hero every day just by being pretty and pleasant, but recently it was Carole Middleton who brought glory and honor to the Middleton name by yanking some random bitch off the street (not Pippa).