Duke, a 2-year-old lab, is a critical incident response dog with the Burnsville Police Department, specially trained to detect cortisol — a stress hormone — in people.

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Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment.

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