Poppy, a large Weimaraner cross, was a high-energy dog with reactivity issues. Managing her excitability was challenging. Before I trained as a dog behaviorist, I believed that giving Poppy a lot of ...

Several years back, Stanley Coren attempted to rank dog breeds by intelligence, creating a hierarchy based on traits like ...

In a classic series of studies, psychologist Harry Harlow demonstrated that in humans and animals, a trained brain thinks differently than an untrained brain. Specifically, he was able to show that ...

Dogs’ protective behaviors are rooted in attachment and emotional contagion. Long ago, dogs survived by bonding with humans ...

Sometimes, dogs who need to feel safe are constantly anxious and stressed. Challenging cases may benefit from the ...

"It means nothing about how 'smart' a dog is or how much it loves/cares about its people/feels like part of the family." People generally smile and cheer while the dogs look happy albeit confused — ...

Every neighborhood has one. Maybe you met one at the dog park strutting past the other dogs as though the red carpet had been rolled out just for them, or maybe you watched your friend's dog and ...

Tamás Faragó told Newsweek: "We should look at their behavior, how they interact with humans and how they live together with ...