Having made two short films about dogs, I don’t consider myself an “expert” on the subject, but I can say I think I understand the impetus that drove Elizabeth Lo to make her new documentary, Stray.

About 70 million dogs live in human homes in the United States. That's 10 million more dogs than children under the age of 15. The pattern in other Western nations is similar. Roughly 40 per cent of ...

It seems that parents fretting about a surly or withdrawn or plain obnoxious teenager could do worse than keep a dog around the house.That's because doing so "has beneficial effects, especially for ...

Honestly, we could name more but these are our top reasons why dogs are better than humans. When it comes to companionship, dogs have a way of stealing the spotlight. While humans can be complicated, ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking new study, however, shows that some gifted dogs can also match given ...

Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying. Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs ...

The “extraordinary preservation” of a 33,000-year-old skull — found in a cave in southern Siberia — has helped show that dog domestication “was, in most cases, entirely natural” and not really a ...