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Fewer babies are being born in many wealthy countries, while more households are adding a dog. That overlap has helped ...

An encore performance by Dr. Patricia McConnell, ethologist and certified applied animal behaviorist and is the author of two ...

Imagine a dog leaping excitedly at arriving guests, only to receive a sharp yell or leash tug—traditional responses that ...

Dogs that find you irresistible are more likely to curl up next to you on the couch or be held in your arms, Rakestraw says.

Getting a new puppy seems to provide a glimpse at immortality. You get to start over with a new dog, a blank slate, a mind to shape, and a whole new life to live. This is the feeling that I have had ...

I recently read two very interesting studies on dog behavior, the results of which surprised me mainly because of misleading sweeping generalizations that have appeared from time to time in scientific ...

It's well-known dogs can sense human emotions, but how do they do it? And what are the implications for how we behave around them?

The result of a puppy's destructive and curious tendencies left his owner hoping his birth mother knew about his bad behavior. TikTok user @ceejustshutup decorated the house for the upcoming holiday ...