Canines don’t seem to perceive their reflections in mirrors. But they do better with a ‘smell mirror.’

Kent’s Dog Collar Museum is a tiny – but telling – look at how people have treated, and sometimes spoiled, their pets over the centuries.

ISLE OF DOGS tells the story of ATARI KOBAYASHI, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

Do our pets love us—or just the treats we give them? To find out, Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University, trained dogs to go inside an MRI scanner. He ... describes the surprising results in his new book, What It’s Like to Be a Dog

The neuroscientist scans the brains of dogs for glimpses at their inner lives. One conclusion: Fido does love you.

Tansy was not into sports. The little border collie, a rescue, didn’t care for agility trials or flyball. But her adopted family—with two other border collies already in the house—played them all the time. Border collies, the elite athletes of the canine universe, are working dogs. They go a little nuts without something to do. After a little consternation, Tansy's new owner Robin Queen, a linguist at the University of Michigan, got some advice: sheep. And why not? Border collies are, after all, sheepdogs.

Pets, especially dogs, may have a salutary effect on health because they add to the rich array of microbes in our homes, to the benefit of our immune systems.

A needless assault on two Minneapolis emotional-support pets is the latest demonstration of a telling problem in law enforcement.

Nearly 150 dogs that faced slaughter to be served as “stamina boosting” meals in South Korea have been rescued and sent to shelters in the United States. Human Society International (HSI), an international animal protection group, carried out the project last weekend. The group rescued the dogs from a farm in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, which faced closure for business reasons. If the group had not worked properly, the dogs could have been sold to dog meat retailers.

Have you heard about the veggie-eating dog who lived to the ripe age of 27? That’s 189 dog years! The dog, Bramble, a blue merle Collie, lived in the UK and held the Guinness World Record for being the oldest living dog at the time. What’s most amazing about this story is that the dog actually lived on a vegan diet of rice, lentils and organic vegetables.

Emotional contagion, the spread of feelings between people and animals, is an emerging field of science.

Veterinarians specialized in vision problems are few, but some conditions ailing dogs and other animals can be treated.

Will a vegan diet make dogs healthier?

The classic self-recognition test gets a makeover for dogs, using smell not sight

Studies of the gut microbiome have gone to the dogs -- and pets around the world could benefit as a result. In a new paper, researchers report that the ratio of proteins and carbohydrates in a canine's daily diet have a significant influence on the balance of microbes in its gut. Researchers observed that dogs fed a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet had enriched microbial gene networks associated with weight loss in humans.

​Studies have already indicated that dogs have a sense of inequity. Many scientists have assumed that this is a result of domestication. A new study shows that wolves react in the same way, however, suggesting that the behavior originates with a common ancestor.

In what may be the best chance yet to learn the famous aviator's fate, forensic dogs are headed to a Pacific island to search for her bones.

Humans speak to dogs using a special speech register called Pet-Directed Speech (PDS) which is very similar to Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) used by parents when talking to young infants. These two type of speech share prosodic features that are distinct from the typical Adult-Directed Speech (ADS): a high pitched voice and an increased pitch variation.

A 14-year-old terrier infested with more than 100,000 fleas will live another day thanks to an emergency blood transfusion at a B.C. veterinarian hospital.

Authorities say a Virginia girl's dog stopped her from being abducted by biting a man who grabbed her. Prince William County police said in a statement on Facebook that a 10-year-old girl was walking her dog when an unknown man grabbed her by the arm Friday afternoon in Woodbridge. Prince William County police spokesman Sgt. Jonathan Perok says the dog bit the man, causing him to release the girl and run away. The girl was not injured.

A growing number of companies are offering health insurance for their employees’ dogs, cats and even potbellied pigs.

A dog named Maddie is back with its owner after a group of boaters spotted her swimming all alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. According to NECN, a ferry off the coast of Falmouth, Massachusetts, was on its way to Martha’s Vineyard when passengers spotted a dog desperately paddling toward their boat. "Everyone on the boat was like, ‘Oh my God! We have to help him,'" Carol Potier told NECN.

Dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a study in the 2 September issue of Science reports. The results reveal important insights into the neural networks needed to understand speech, hinting that perhaps both humans and dogs may have relied on similar networks that were already in place before language evolved, and later adapted to process speech.

Scientists have found a handful of genes that they may be linked to the tendency for dogs to seek human help and contact

A dog trapped for nearly a month in an old well is recovering after the amazing ordeal. "This dog, Bruno, had a real zest for life and will to live," John Billesberger said a few days after his dog, a Labrador retriever, was found at the muddy bottom of a long-forgotten well which was about three metres deep. John and Cindy Billesberger, who live on a farm in the Estevan, Sask., area, have three retrievers. On Sept. 17, John went to do some work in his fields.

Dogs probably dream about their owners while they sleep, an expert has said. Dr Deirdre Barrett, a Clinical and Evolutionary Psychologist at Harvard Medical School, has spent years studying sleep behaviour in humans.

This is the story of a little girl called Bridget who loves to bounce. When her mum and dad buy her a trampoline for Christmas, they soon discover that she isn’t the only one with a passion for jumping.

Hundreds of people join a dog owner as he takes his beloved but poorly whippet Walnut on a final walk before the pet is put down.

Dogs tend to live in the moment, accepting each treat, snuggle, or toss of the tennis ball as the whole reason for their existence with a charming singlemindedness. Yet, their understanding of time can be complex.

Going grey due to stress and anxiety is an inseparable part of being human, but new research suggests we are not alone.

A ruling from the 6th Circuit Court serves as a warning to dog owners: Teach your dog to sit still and be quiet or risk police justifiably shooting the dog. Mark and Cheryl Brown petitioned their local court to hold the city as well as police officers from Battle Creek, Michigan, accountable for killing their dogs during the execution of a search warrant of their home. The search warrant was to look for evidence of drugs, and the dogs never attacked the officers.