A sick dog, desperate owner, and a bunch of chatbots made for a great story. The actual science was much messier.

This ranking counts down the 25 smartest dog breeds based on Stanley Coren's widely respected 2006 book The Intelligence of Dogs, which measured trainability and working intelligence across breeds ...

A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

Researchers have found that a corvid bird known as a rook can learn to obey spoken human commands by listening to the words ...

The aircraft was in “friendly” airspace, supporting operations against Iran, when an unspecified incident involving another ...

A substantially changed ordinance to gradually allow e-collars as an option of restraint in the Fairbanks North Star Borough made it out of the dog house after the Animal Control ...

Let’s start with a scenario that might feel uncomfortably familiar. Self-Assessment season is approaching. A large portion of your clients need ...

Here’s a look at the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal which took place during the Iraq war. Facts Abu Ghraib prison was a US Army detention center for captured Iraqis from 2003 to 2006. An investigat ...

Dear Doctors: I read your column about the scent of skin secretion changes in Parkinson's disease. A couple of years ago, I read about training canines to smell and detect lung cancer. Has there been ...

WRAPPING UP. LUKE WILL BE BACK WITH YOUR FULL FORECAST IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. THERAPY DOGS ARE COMMONLY SEEN COMFORTING PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS, HELPING THEM FEEL MORE AT EASE AS THEY WORK THROUGH AN ...

Dogs communicate in all different ways that humans instantly recognize, by wagging their tails, barking and smiling. Now a new study says they can also communicate by pushing buttons on a soundboard ...

The resilient rat terrier is using his hard-earned golden years to get support for senior pets who have spent their lives in shelters Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...