What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology ...

Dog Inbreeding: Understanding the Impacts and Moving Toward Healthier Breeding Practices Dogs have been our companions for thousands of years, evolving from wild wolves to the diverse array of breeds ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to temporarily stop issuing new dog breeding licenses because of overcrowding at city-run animal shelters. The city’s six shelters have 737 kennels, but more ...

Dear Dr. Fox: "The Underdogs: Children, Dogs and the Power of Unconditional Love" is a new book by Melissa Fay Greene about the unique relationships between children and the therapy or service dogs ...

Pure-bred dogs have been regarded as superior to crossbreeds or what some people refer to as mutts. However, we now understand that producing purebred dogs has drawbacks. The lack of variety in the ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on balancing animal welfare and a family’s need for income. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I live across the street from an apparently unregistered dog-breeding operation ...

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...

This essay was written by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., with Jane Goodall, Ph.D. Every year, more than 40,000 dogs, mostly beagles, are used in research in the United States. They are often used in painful and ...