Nineteenth-century Indiana passed some of the country’s toughest “blue laws” to protect Sunday’s rest and worship from ...

A curious cockapoo guided its owner to a stranded seal pup, helping bring attention to the young animal so it could receive assistance.

Our lovable yet unruly boxer Dusty forced me to wonder: if a dog has no morals, how do you teach it to be ‘good’?

After adopting a rescue dog named Molly, one music critic found himself hearing dozens of classic songs in a completely different way. What began as a simple search for songs about dogs quickly turned ...

The Seeing Eye — co-founded in 1929 by Nashville’s Morris Frank with author and dog trainer Deborah Eustis — is the world’s leading trainer of guide dogs for the blind. Established here in Nashville, ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient genetic influence shows up in traits like body size, behavior, and ...

A dog’s death is like no other. Not worse than any other, of course. But unlike any other, inasmuch as the disparity between the loss and the profound grief it provokes is so bewildering to outsiders ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Years after the well-known Envigo dog breeding facility shut down in Cumberland County, a new book is sharing one beagle’s journey as a so-called “Lab Dog.” Melanie Kaplan ...

Eurasian gray wolves were the first animals to be domesticated, a process that began about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago when wolves slowly went from a wild existence to one dependent on humans. Today, ...

Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light ...

Dogs were likely domesticated more than 14,000 years ago, a new study published this week found. In the largest study of canine remains to date, researchers from 17 institutions, including ...

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to those of humans in death. Reading time 3 minutes The bond between humans and ...