Do Dog Owners Choose Dogs With The Same Personality As Them?

Though I don’t agree with everything in these studies, it may point out why people of certain personality types have issues with their dogs. By that I mean, we all know someone on our own block that can’t keep control of their dog, keeps them on a chain outside all day or their dog is […]

New Study Shows That Dogs Pick Up On Human Intent

In a new study, dogs who were spoken to or who had direct eye contact with a person were more likely to follow that human’s gaze as it moved across the room than if the person didn’t make direct eye contact with them. The skills are equivalent to what is seen in 6-month-old human infants, […]

Can Your Dog Read Your Mind?

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Can dogs read our minds? Or have they simply learned to read our behavior? A University of Florida researcher thinks she may have the answer: Dogs’ lifetime experiences inform the way they behave with humans. And while it may look like dogs intuitively know what humans want or how humans feel, it’s not a telepathic […]

Experts Claims Dogs Really Are Better Than Cats

By Lucie van den Berg For The Herald Sun The cat is finally out of the bag – dogs make better pets than our feline friends. Experts claim to have put an end to the age-old debate between cat and dog lovers. Are dogs really better than cats? Join the debate in the comments below […]

Comparing Dogs To Cars, Environmentally Speaking

by Gary Chittim For KING 5 News SEATTLE – Dog owners are reacting with giggles to a new report that dogs create a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. The study by Robert and Brenda Vale, two sustainable-living researchers from New Zealand, bases its claim mostly on what dogs eat. The study says the land […]

Would You Give Your Dog CPR?

By Lindsay Barnett for the Los Angeles Times PhotoCredit: Myung J. Chun Study shows most pet owners would attempt CPR on their dog or cat. But what about other emergency preparedness? Although most pet owners say they’d attempt doggie- or kitty-CPR to save an animal in danger, many are unprepared to deal with a wide […]

What Really Prompts The Dog's 'Guilty Look'

ScienceDaily — What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, […]

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