Guide dogs are highly trained and can help people with vision loss navigate the world, open doors, and more. On paper, few ...

A recent study shows that assistance dogs do not only help people with practical tasks, but actively contribute to their care ...

Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers can inherit a form of Addison's disease, in which the immune system attacks adrenal glands. UC Davis researchers have now identified a gene variant associated with ...

The Dog Aging Project is working to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. The research results may help humans age well, too.

Among dog breeds, Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers (tollers) have an unusually high rate of Addison's disease, a condition ...

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If you believe many of the TV news broadcasts and postings on YouTube then you also believe that dogs often help people spontaneously, and often heroically. There are many reports of dogs pulling ...

I was recently in a park where a mother and a grandmother were sitting on the bench watching a child play. A Golden Retriever was resting beside them also watching the activity. Suddenly the child ...

Why does your dog rush to "help" when you are searching for something, while your cat seems… eh, less concerned? New research suggests that this difference may stem from deep evolutionary roots—and ...