Your dog stiffens, growls, and refuses to budge near someone who seems perfectly harmless to you. Science suggests your dog ...

Interactions between humans and dogs involve a continuous exchange of physical and verbal cues. A person may pet a dog, use a hand gesture, give a verbal command or call the pet from a distance, ...

Dog owners often say their pets know how they are feeling. Now, new research from The University of Vienna suggests they may ...

If you believe many of the TV news broadcasts and postings on YouTube then you also believe that dogs often help people spontaneously, and often heroically. There are many reports of dogs pulling ...

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Why does a border collie stare imploringly at its owner when a treat box refuses to open, while a husky simply walks away?

When a dog hears a word, is it just an auditory stimulus, or does it go deeper to have some sort of meaning?” To find out, he ...

Why do dogs help and seemingly effortlessly bring a dropped object, while cats tend to observe from a safe distance? A recent study delves into this question and provides surprisingly clear answers.

The same biological signals that help predict lifespan in humans also appear in dogs, according to new research from the Dog Aging Project—a finding that could help scientists better understand aging ...

A long-shared history links humans and dogs, a relationship that began more than 15,000 years ago when early wolves sought food and shelter near human settlements and gradually adapted to life ...

Barking is normal dog behavior that humans have made inconvenient. The ethical burden falls on guardians to fix the conflict ...