A study found that dog owners show heightened well-being not only when their pets meet their psychological needs, but when they make an effort to meet ...

An exciting game will allow you to simulate a situation in which you get a pet. play online game "Adopt a cat or dog to your family!" and see if you can adapt the new pet to your family life.

Researchers are training dogs to sniff out the COVID-19 virus.

This dog is more than just a good boy -- he’s an honorary doctor of veterinary medicine.

Recent research highlights the power of the canine nose to uncover buried remains from ancient human history.

Sixty years ago, for the first time in history, an animal was launched into orbit. What is her legacy?

Farmers in the Malnad region in South India are reportedly dying their dogs' fur with tiger stripes to scare off bands of marauding monkeys. Apparently the monkeys are wreaking havoc on their corn crops.

Dogs spontaneously process basic numerical quantities, using a distinct part of their brains that corresponds closely to number-responsive neural regions in humans, finds a study at Emory University. Biology Letters published the results, which suggest that a common neural mechanism has been deeply conserved across mammalian evolution.

With the chain of unfortunate events occurring around the world simultaneously, one cannot help but to hope for a silver lining that would tone down, even for a moment, the devastation that is unraveling before our very eyes. More often that not, it can come in the form of a heartwarming news about a certain incident involving animals and their selfless acts.

Sensory ability may help canines track their prey

“The dogs also just give you the love that you feel like you crave while you’re at university.” That’s what Luke Davies, secretary of the Sussex Uni Dog Walking Society, says about its weekly dog walks. The society’s members also say interacting with the 45 dogs help their mental health and stress related to their work.

China has stated that dogs should be treated as pets, not livestock, for the first time – a move campaigners hope could signal an end to the country’s brutal cat and dog meat trade. It comes after Chinese authorities imposed an immediate ban on eating and trading wild animals in response to coronavirus, which is believed – but by no means conclusively proven – to have first spread to humans at a “wet” market in Wuhan.

An Australian Koolie dog who was abandoned by his family has been rescued and retrained to detect koalas. Bear has been following the aftermath of Australia's bushfires since January, finding sick, injured or starving koalas that otherwise would have perished. He has now found more than 100.

It was a cold and rainy morning when Anna Terry made a staggering find on her family's truffle farm near Deloraine. "It weighs 910 grams, which is definitely our record." Ms Terry said her trainee truffle sniffing dog Poppy made the discovery last week. "Poppy just started digging and didn't stop, then I started to see how big it was," Ms Terry said.

According to a paper published in the journal Animal Cognition, in an experiment conducted by the university, dogs approached people who appeared to be distressed more often than those who weren't.

Let's see who blinks first.

If you got any pics of your dog looking stoned, post it up!

This amazing video shows a Boston Terrier doing all kinds of cool stuff!

I wonder what hes thinking.

This is super cute.