News Stories relating to "dogs"

Man's best friend might just be treated like any other animal, if his owners live in the suburbs. Sociologists have found that people who think of animals as children tend to have a city background. But no matter where someone lives, having children often changes the owners' thoughts on their pets.

Researcher David Blouin says, "To think...

Get the same diseases - Dogs are a lot like humans: Both species like to eat too much! According to new research, as many as 1 out of 3 cancer deaths in both humans and dogs could be prevented by cutting calories.

Demian Dressler, who is known as the "dog cancer vet" because of his work in the study of canine cancer,...

Is one of your New Year's resolutions to go on a diet? Is it time for your pet need to go on a diet too? Dog and cat owners buying weight-control diets for their overweight pets are faced with a confusing variation in calorie density, recommended intake, and wide range cost of low-calorie pet foods. Your pets are too fat, but what do you feed...

People are like dogs, and dogs are like people. Although you wouldn't want a dog to balance your checkbook, dogs can count. A leading dog researcher thinks that dogs' mental abilities are close to those of a human child of around 2 years old.

They can also understand more than 150 words and intentionally deceive other dogs and people to...

Researchers claim to have found a basic form of jealousy in dogs (but do you know how to interpret your dog's tail wags so you can figure out if YOUR dog has this problem?) Before this, they thought that only primates (that's us!) were able to feel that emotion.

The researchers came to this conclusion because they discovered that a dog...

In Glasgow, Scotland, dogs seem to have lost the will tolive. Five dogs have committed suicide?by jumping from thesame spot on a bridge. All these suicides happened atdifferent times. For instance, a woman who was out walkingher dog watched in amazement as her dog ran to the spot andjumped over, plunging 40 feet to its death. In Germany, asmany...

Wild dogs that live in southern cypress swamps and are called Carolina Dogs or "yaller dogs," may be descended from the first dogs to live in North America, according to I. Lehr Brisbin. He studies the world's remaining wild, ancient dogs, such as the Australian dingo, which may have come to Australia along with the original human inhabitants...