A dog trembling during a thunderstorm or backing away from a stranger may seem like an isolated reaction—yet new research ...

Fear is an emotional state elicited by the perception of danger. Fear is helpful when it aids the animal in escaping from dangerous animals or catastrophic events. In these cases, it can be said that ...

One of the most profound aspects of the human-canine bond is that we can communicate with one another without words. While dogs can understand some words that we say, pups communicate to people and ...

Conversations around animal breeding and testing facilities have intensified in recent months following several high-profile ...

Because of news reports that some raccoons in our local area were carrying canine distemper, and the fact that health officials believed that interactions with these animals were responsible for the ...