The Best Articles in Pets

Most of the ideas in this post come from the book Being A Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz, which is my f...

The very attributes that make small dogs cute and popular are slowly strangling their ability to function as real animals

With the return of the Iditarod, the famously grueling thousand-mile odyssey across the Alaskan wild, the exploits of dogsledding legend Dallas Seavey are raising questions about the fate of an…

Christopher Furlong is helping fleeing pets and people tell their stories.

If your cat or dog is choking, it's important you know what to do. Read on to see the immediate steps that could save your pet's life.

The Tilly Project helps grieving pet owners around the world.

Dogs can’t tell us what time means to them — but maybe we can try and understand how dogs perceive the passing of time.

You can’t claim pets as dependents, but you may be able to write off some expenses depending on the role they play in your life.

Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans

New research on German dog owners finds that people with stronger relationships to their pets display more symptoms of mental disorders and distress, but proposes that this link may be fully accounted…

Getting a dog to sit still for a photo is hard enough, but to also be able to capture their personality? That is an expert skill!

As with so many other goods, the price of all purebred and designer dogs skyrocketed when the pandemic started. This led to an increase in dognappings and other dog-related crimes.

A series of studies found that exposure to dogs leads people to make riskier financial decisions, while interactions with cats have the opposite effect.

For $15,000, you can get your pet a new kidney.

These tips and tricks are sure to make your pup better-behaved.

Breed doesn’t have that big an effect on a dog’s personality.