If a dog has eyes that seem to be telling you something or demanding your attention, it could be evolution's way of manipulating your feelings. Researchers have found that dogs have evolved muscles around their eyes, which allow them to make expressions that particularly appeal to humans.

Karma was abandoned and left for dead last year. Now, she’s officially a K-9 with the Denver Sheriff Department.

Scientists are still debating when and where dogs were domesticated, but there’s one thing most of them agree on: Early canines were working animals. Dogs evolved from gray wolves earlier than 15,000 years ago—before humans settled down in permanent villages—and they likely helped us hunt small game like deer and rabbits and pulled sleds or other transport equipment across vast plains.

Police responded to a call for an aggressive dog running loose Saturday night in Kilgore. When the officer arrived, he thought he might be able to capture it by opening his car door and coaxing him into the back seat, which was caged in. The officer accidentally left the driver's side door open as well in his hasty attempt to catch the illusive pup. The dog apparently decided it would much rather be in the front seat than caged in the back, and jumped inside.

"This happened very fast indeed, in just some dozens of thousands of years."

Scientists find higher cortisol levels in owners matched by raised levels in canine companions

"Many studies show our relationships with dogs can be even more satisfying than our human relationships."

Scientists are trying to crack the code of how smell works—and create robots that can sniff out the world's secrets like a dog.

A dog owner in America had her healthy pet put down and cremated to be buried with her when she died, according to US reports. Emma, a shih tzu mix, was put down and cremated, despite efforts of an animal shelter to stop it happening. Workers at the shelter in Virginia reportedly spent two weeks trying to convince people close to the dead woman not to carry out her last wishes.

A law banning puppy and kitten farming, which campaigners hope will end the practice by some unscrupulous breeders of keeping animals constantly pregnant and often in dirty and cramped conditions, is to be laid by the government. The change, expected to come into force in April 2020, will mean young cats and dogs can no longer be sold by a pet shop or commercial dealer unless they have bred them.

The Gupo dog meat market in Busan, South Korea is one of the largest in the country, keeping live animals in cages available to be slaughtered on order. It will now be closed down.

A dog found with its mouth taped shut and wandering the backyards of Lehigh Acres, a community near Fort Myers, Fla., is making the most of his second chance. The Florida Cur was found “panting, drooling and reportedly suffocating,” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office told Fox 13 News. But not long after, the abused and abandoned pup was adopted, appropriately named Chance and made an official deputy and “Spokes-dog” by the sheriff’s office.

Owner Jess Martin says the pair have developed a "nice communication" and know each other's boundaries.

Some 4,500 years ago, a collie-sized dog with pointed ears and a long snout comparable to that of the European grey wolf roamed Scotland’s Orkney Islands. A valued member of the local Neolithic community, the canine was eventually buried alongside 23 other dogs and at least eight humans in a cavernous tomb known as the Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn.

A loyal dog stayed with her owner for almost two days after he fell to his death while hiking. Daisy was found with the 64-year-old man's body in bush near the town of Eatonville, about 60 miles south of Seattle in Washington. The pair went hiking on Wednesday but had not returned by dark, prompting the man's worried wife to call for help.

New York City said the doghouses on sidewalks outside stores were illegal but they are welcome at rest stops along the New York State Thruway.

For chronic pain sufferers, it may be smart to let sleeping dogs lie, a new University of Alberta study suggests. Contrary to blanket medical advice, shooing Fido out of the bedroom may not help people with long-term pain get a better night’s sleep, said researcher Cary Brown of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. “Typically, people who have pain also have a lot of sleep problems, so usually if they ask their health-care provider about a pet, they’re told to get the pet out of the bedroom. But that standard advice can actually be damaging.”

The study of more than 33,000 United Kingdom-based Labrador retrievers of all colours shows chocolate Labradors also have a higher incidence of ear infections and skin disease. Its findings were published in the open access journal Canine Genetics and Epidemiology today.

An Oklahoma pet owner disclosed her own dog’s greedy way to ingeniously get free hamburgers in a McDonald’s drive-thru. Oklahoma City’s Betsy Reyes says that her dog sneaks out from the house at night and pretends to a stray while sitting outside a McDonald’s drive-thru.

The US government has decided to press ahead with controversial experiments on dogs, despite critics in congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary. The department for veterans affairs (VA) has approved the continuation of the testing, which it says will help doctors find new ways to treat wounded soldiers, according to USA Today. Researchers running the experiments will remove sections of the dogs’ brains that control breathing, sever spinal cords to test cough reflexes and implant pacemakers before triggering abnormal heart rhythms. All the dogs involved will ultimately be euthanised.

Stray dogs that need somewhere warm to sleep during the winter months, have offered sanctuary by an Italian Ikea store. Martine Taccia was shopping at a branch in Catania when she discovered the dogs cuddled up on carpet among the Christmas displays. “My reaction was pure amazement,” she told The Dodo. “It’s not a common thing.”

One UPS driver was delivering packages when he received a gift of his own. Jason Coronado, a New York UPS driver, was making the rounds on Oct. 5 when Ernie, a pitbull-terrier mix in the Buffalo City Animal Shelter, approached his truck, according to ABC affiliate WKBW. “[I] call him up to the truck, and he pretty much just hopped up in, and I was like, ‘Okay,’ ” Coronado told WKBW. “He hopped up and just sat there and did not want to leave.”

A dog left behind as the Camp fire swept through Butte County last month was found "protecting what was left of his former home" when his owners were finally allowed back onto their burned property earlier this week. K9 Paw Print Rescue shared the happy story of golden retriever Madison and his relieved owners in a Facebook post on Dec. 5, shared more than 9,500 times.

You wouldn’t be worried if a cat was stuck at the roof of a house because they have a nice grip and they can handle themselves and rescuing them, with their small size of a body wouldn’t cause much trouble. But what do you when a 10-year-old husky is stuck on the roof? Captain Jeff Nawfel, a firefighter, was in a similar dilemma recently.

Essential oils could be the canary in the coal mine and not be as innocent as everyone thinks. A vet said she has treated recent cases of pet poisoning that could have long-term effects.

One of America’s native wild canines, the red wolf, has teetered on the brink of extinction for decades. And despite the efforts of a captive breeding program started in the 1970s, only about 40 such wolves are known to be still living in the wild today, all in North Carolina. But researchers at Princeton University have made a strange discovery that might spell good news for the future of the species: A population of wild dogs, isolated off the coast of Texas, that seem to carry red wolf genes, including remnants of DNA thought to be lost forever.

The Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office made an incredible discovery during a drug raid on Thursday. A month-long crystal methamphetamine trafficking investigation led to a drug raid in the 5300 block of state Route 212 NW in Beach City, according to deputies. In addition to drugs and paraphernalia, deputies also found an English Bulldog in the raid. Deputies later learned that the dog had been reported missing from its owner in Massillon in 2016.

Tracing the origins of the animal rights movement to one truly bizarre 1922 court case.

Even animals that aren’t eating too much or exercising too little are getting fat. If we can figure out why, we may have the key to our own obesity crisis – and how to stop it.

Larger dogs have better short-term memory and self-control than smaller breeds, according to research led by the UA's Arizona Canine Cognition Center.

Many are embarrassed to publicly show too much grief over the death of a dog. But research has shown just how devastating the loss can be.

A BBC investigation into dogfighting discovered an illegal trade stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.

After an 11-day hiatus, an Ontario dog is back on Canadian soil, all thanks to the crew aboard the United State Coast Guard Mackinaw. On Christmas Eve, Kailaan Walker and his partner, Lydia Selin, were visiting family on St. Joseph Island. They decided to take their two dogs for a walk, when Logan ran away. The couple searched for Logan but couldn't find him. They put up posters, posted the information on social media and even put out a trail camera to see if they could locate him.

The concern over pets developing autism from vaccines appears to be the latest issue within the anti-vaxxer movement.