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

Small dogs seem to have been purposely crafted to melt even the coldest of hearts. On top of prancing around with adorableness, these cute creatures snuggle into designer handbags and are often seen ...

All dog breeds have unwanted behavior, such as noise sensitivity, aggressiveness and separation anxiety, but differences in frequency between breeds are great. Various unwanted behavior traits often ...

Many dog breeds are purely about appearance—think poodles and the Pekingese. But plenty of other breeds, like racing greyhounds, are devoted to specific tasks. For many of these tasks, physical ...

A very interesting study by Ian Dinwoodie, who works at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and his colleagues called "Demographics and Comorbidity of Behavior Problems in Dogs, ...

Researchers have found that dogs adapt their communicative strategies to their environment and that owner behavior influences communicative effort and success. Experimental results found no evidence ...

This behavior may seem alternately adorable and strange to us, but dogs have very good reasons why they chase their tails There are few things cuter than watching your dog discover its marvelous tail ...

Dogs react to snow in strikingly different ways, from huskies that thrive in winter to small breeds that shiver at the first ...

Trancing is when dogs enter a slow-motion, focused state while moving under objects, such as Christmas trees. However, the ...

Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their owners. Credit: Mikel M. Delgado/CC-BY 4.0 Conventional wisdom would suggest that all dogs love to play fetch, while ...

The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history ...