Why are so many of our pets overweight?

In just ten years time your dog could talk to you instead of barking, according to leading experts. Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning mean the Dr Dolittle dream of communicating with animals could soon be a reality. One researcher is currently collecting thousands of videos of dogs …

Animal behavior expert Con Slobodchikoff is one of these researchers whose work may allow pets and their owners to effectively converse with each other using a pettranslator in less than ten years. Slobodchikoff, from Northern Arizona University, has studied footage of dogs engaged in a range of …

Not many humans think about the cold weather being dangerous for their pets. Winter weather temperatures can cause frostbite, hypothermia to any dog or cat left outside in pawfully cold weather. Many think their pets fur coats will keep them warm, it’s simply not true. Like humans, animals have different …

For their safety, the humans should keep an eye on their pets being near the front door as humans come and go. Open doors are often an easy escape to take off and run like crazy pets! If they were to get out the front door, they might not be missed for several hours and get into trouble out in the wilds of the …

The National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, currently playing at the Arts Centre Melbourne with MTC, is a lauded adaptation of Mark Haddon’s debut novel, of the same title. Haddon’s book was published to much acclaim in 2003. Its literary innovation is in part …

John Wren from New York, who was 4 years old when Chips the family pet dogreturned from the war effort, with Military working dog Ayron who received the PDSA Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on Chips’ behalf, in London, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. Chips was a US Army dog who …

Police in Hartford, Conn., charged a woman Thursday with animal cruelty in connection with a grim scene reported by a neighbor on New Year’s Day: a dogchained to a small shelter outside a home — and frozen solid. The incident was one of several similar deaths reported in recent days as bitter cold …

I took her picture last year, one sparkling autumn day, as she stood on our dirt road waiting for me. There was a bright red maple leaf on the ground. This fall, I held that photo in my hands as the tears rolled down. Eva Cassidy was singing on the radio: “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn …