Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea that dogs are carefree, perpetually cheerful and impervious to petty stresses that leave us humans tormented and ...

Even the happiest pup can get the blues. Dogs may be a separate species, but they still experience emotions. These emotions may be different from the human variety, but a dog’s feelings, when ...

There are a few questions I find myself pondering again and again: how would I do as a contestant on Survivor? Should I learn Italian? And is my dog happy? When Cleo, a nine-year-old mutt, first came ...

Dogs can be going through a ruff time, too. Studies have shown a dog’s brain is similar to that of a human’s, and in the 1980s, Dr. Nicholas Dodman of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts ...

To most of us, a dog showing its teeth is a pretty clear signal of threat. In 1872, Charles Darwin first suggested animals showed emotions similar to ours in their body language, and we might be able ...

Source: Photo elements from Cameron Ritchie and Brandon Morrison — Creative Commons License I was working on an attention exercise with my young Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Ranger. A colleague ...

The idea that dogs are carefree, perpetually cheerful and impervious to petty stresses that leave us humans tormented and overtaxed is quite a popular one. After all, dogs don’t need to worry about ...