Selective breeding of dogs was pioneered by the British in the Victorian era, when many earnestly believed in eugenics as a means of “purifying” and improving both man and animal. Beyond its ...

Puppy farmers in Ireland profit from a multi-million-euro industry fuelled by the ‘criminal mistreatment of dogs and puppies’ ...

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RISPCA) had a slew of new arrivals Tuesday afternoon. 12 News learned a medical research breeding facility ...

The puggles, maltepoos and labradoodles scampering along Chicago streets are bred to be cute and customizable, pet industry experts say. But these high-priced “designer dogs” are also increasingly ...

First-time mom Unity the German shepherd gave birth to 16 healthy puppies as part of Guide Dogs' breeding program in late 2021 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Hundreds of dogs were seized from a breeding facility in Florida on Monday by animal control officials who said the animals were not cared for and kept in deplorable conditions. Trish's All Breed Pet ...

What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology ...

An online petition signed by more than 200,000 people is demanding a halt to a taxpayer-funded research project at Texas A&M University that studies muscular dystrophy’s debilitating effects in golden ...

What if giving voice to the voiceless meant listening to them, before pretending to know what they would say? (Matt Margini, 2016, "What Is It Like to be an Elephant?") That dogs and other companion ...

For thousands of years humans have changed the sizes, shapes, colors, and coats of dogs through selective breeding. Now it seems we've actually reordered many breeds' brains in the process. (See ...