There's No Place Like Home
A stay in a foster home before adoption and even adoptions that end in the return of a dog to the shelter enhance the chances of rehoming for dogs who find themselves between owners. ...
Dog Bite Prevention Week Fact Sheet: Companionship is the best prevention
You are your dog’s first line of defense. ...
Are you happy? Disgusted? Your dog can tell the difference
Once again researchers at the Family Dog Project in Hungary have confirmed an ability that dog lovers have long suspected in our canine companions. In an ingenious series of experiments the Eötvös Loránd University ethologists demonstrated that dogs can d ...
No single factor explains barking, growling, lunging and biting behavior in dogs.
Dr. Rachel Casey from Bristol University in the UK, and colleagues, recently attempted to estimate the number of dogs barking, lunging, growling or biting – the behaviors they grouped together under the term, aggression [1]-- and to see if they could iden ...
Neuroscience May Confirm What Many Dog Lovers Already Know
Dog owners regularly attribute emotions such as love and loyalty to their pets, and may be just as regularly dismissed for doing so. The Dog Project, being conducted by Dr. Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University in Atlanta, has detected canin ...
Of Mice and Dogs: Their Personalities May Be Up To Us
Most of us easily acknowledge the likelihood that specific behaviors can be influenced by learning, in ourselves and in other species, including the one closest to us, our companion dogs. We can learn to tie our shoes, and our dogs can learn to walk next ...
NCRC Video Interview with Janis Bradley
Janis Bradley, veteran dog trainer and author of the NCRC Vision Series publication, 'The Relevance of Breed in Selecting a Companion Dog,' discusses whether breed is a useful indicator of the suitability of a companion dog. Click to view other ...
Study underscores that we can only learn what dogs are capable of from capable dogs.
The human community has changed dramatically in the modern era. Both dogs and people are continually adjusting to new phenomena (trains, cars, streets teeming with other people and other dogs, to name a few) and new expectations that arise from our livin ...
Study shows owners and non-owners recognize animal emotions
"'Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'''- Frans De Waal, quoted in The New York Times June 26, 2001 Char ...
HSUS "Pets for Life" toolkit: empowering pet owners in under-served areas and yielding significant results for animals in the creation of humane communities
All of us who love dogs – whether we live with them, raise them, provide professional services for them, or use them for a purpose – recognize the value they hold in our society. Yet the human-canine bond may be weakened by a disparate amount of resources ...