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Listening to Angry Human Voices Could Throw Off a Dog's Balance
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (451+ words) Learn more about how human voices, whether happy or angry, can impact a dog's balance. Presenting their findings in the journal PLOS One, the research team examined how the sound of angry and happy human voices impacted a dog's stability....
Dogs Can Smell a Deadly Canine Cancer, Offering a New Path to Earlier Detection
1+ week, 53+ min ago (389+ words) Learn how trained dogs smell subtle chemical signals linked to cancer in blood samples. Dogs can detect cancer by smell, according to a new study in which trained dogs identified hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive blood-vessel cancer, in blood samples. Cancer is…...
Your Dog Can Likely Recognize Your Face in a Photo — Here's How We Know
1+ week, 6+ day ago (432+ words) Learn more about the canine temporal lobe and how it helps your dog recognize your face. After you've come home from a long day at work or a trip to the grocery store, your dog may be the first thing…...
Do Animals Think and Feel Like Us? Most People Say Feeling Yes — Thinking No
4+ week, 1+ day ago (537+ words) Learn how people across cultures accept animal empathy while viewing human thinking as fundamentally different. Ask whether animals think and feel, and people around the world tend to agree: yes " but not in the same way humans do. A new…...
Purrs Convey Cats' Identities Better Than Meows — Domestication Reveals Why
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (505+ words) Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats communicate with their owners. Cat-owners know the precious purrs and meows of their feline companions by heart, and it probably…...
Your Dog May Look Sad When You Are Happy and Vice Versa — Here’s Why
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (478+ words) Learn how mood can affect how we interpret our pup's emotions and why this may have implications of how we treat our pets. Dogs may be man's best friend, but we might not know them as well as we think…...
Dogs Given CBD Showed Lower Aggression Over Time, Unlike Dogs That Never Received It
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (569+ words) Learn how years of data from more than 47,000 dogs revealed a clear split in aggression between CBD-treated and untreated pets. Dogs given CBD over long periods don't just get older " they may also get calmer. A new study reports that…...
Even Chihuahuas Still Have Some Wolf in Them — Here’s How Some Dogs Still Carry This DNA
2+ mon, 3+ hour ago (534+ words) Learn more about how ancient wolf DNA is still found in modern dogs, and how it's shaped those breeds. All modern-day pooches, from beefy Newfoundlands to scrawny Salukis, are descended from an ancient population of domesticated gray wolves. Despite the…...
'Golden Retriever Personality' May Hold Some Truth as Humans Share Same Genetic Roots
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (569+ words) Learn about how humans and golden retrievers share genetic traits that make us more likely to experience fear, anxiety, and embarrassment. Many people claim to have a "golden retriever personality" " and, as it turns out, they might not be wrong....
Dogs With ADHD-Like Traits Show Surprising Improvements After a Short Nap
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (576+ words) Learn how two new studies reveal surprising parallels between dogs" ADHD-like behaviors and human attention patterns, and how sleep and training can help distractible dogs learn more effectively. Any dog owner has seen moments that look a little like human…...