While Lavender has a talent for making students and staff members happy, she also has a talent for the sport known as dock ...

Curiously, she danced straight through a puddle, splashing happily. Her dad picked her up swiftly, but the little dog didn’t care. She stuck her nose straight up in the air, laughing in the rain.

And the late Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Portuguese water dog Splash even had a children’s book. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has regularly brought his ...