There’s a reason certain dog breeds feel like emotional mind-readers. While all dogs bond deeply with their humans, some ...

Dogs are often hired to perform seemingly impossible tasks because their noses are so powerful. At airports, they smell luggage for narcotics and explosives. At crime scenes, they can sniff out human ...

Dogs have a powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

For instance, the group’s 2022 study discovered that dogs store key sensory features about their toys—notably what they look ...

Dogs help humans in many tasks, but their original role in hunter-gatherer societies was as a sensory aid in finding prey animals. Newly found sensory abilities include heat mapping by the nose, as ...

Research shows what canines really can sense — and how social media and human projection fuel belief in their supernatural abilities. Countless clips of heroic dogs rescuing humans are circulating on ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2020. Q: I’m training my dog Roger for search and rescue, which requires him ...

Veterinarians and animal-behavior specialists agree that dogs naturally reject strong chemical odors. Citrus, for example, is ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Sure, Apollo's sitting, shaking, leash walking and fetching skills have improved since he started living in a group home with four men with developmental disabilities. But this ...

There's nothing quite like the bond between a dog and its human family. But does a dog's special bond even extend beyond the end of someone's life? If one woman on TikTok is to believed, it sure seems ...

The special bond between humans and dogs is undeniable. For centuries, dogs have been by our sides, not only as faithful companions but also as creatures capable of remarkable intuition about the ...