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Bring Your Dog to These 16 Vegas Bars, Restaurants, and Cafes | Eater Las Vegas
Bring your dog with you to these Las Vegas restaurants by Krista Diamond and Janna Karel, Updated Aug 22, 2022 Perhaps it isn’t surprising that Las Vegas has a selection of restaurants and bars that welcome customers’ dogs. The city has one of the highest dog park rates per capita in the country. This is…
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The 20 cutest dog breeds, according to science | Salon.com
What do Jack Russell Terrier and “The Batman” star Robert Pattinson have in common? By Michele Debczak, Published June 26, 2022 8:00PM (EDT) Sorry, dog owners: Insisting your pet is the cutest creature on Earth doesn’t necessarily make it true. Some dog breeds are objectively more adorable than others—at least according to a mathematical ratio…
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How much food should I feed my dog? How to keep your pup healthy | USA Today | Life
By Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY So you’ve come home from the shelter with a new puppy — or maybe a scruffy, old dog showed up on your doorstep. However you ended up with this four-legged friend, how to feed and take care of it properly is likely one of the first things on your mind.…
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Your dog’s breed doesn’t determine its personality, study suggests | Science | AAAS
Work challenges popular idea that breeds have specific, reliable behaviors 28 Apr 20222:00 PM, By David Grimm When Kathleen Morrill was 12, she decided she needed a puppy. Not just any puppy—a pint-size papillon with a black button nose and bushy, perky ears. When her parents resisted, “I turned on the waterworks,” laughs Morrill, now…
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Pet therapy: how dogs, cats and horses help improve human wellbeing | The Conversation
By Ann Hemingway, Professor of Public Health and Wellbeing, Bournemouth University, Published: April 8, 2022 8.10am EDT We’ve all heard of the psychotherapy couch, and the dynamic between a client and their human therapist. But perhaps less well known is the increasingly popular pet therapy. And no, that’s not therapy for your pet – it’s…
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Who’s a clever dog? Scientists study secrets of canine cognition | Dogs | The Guardian
Dogs can figure out some things that even chimps can’t. Our science correspondent puts her puppy retriever to the test By Nicola Davis, Mon 17 Jan 2022 02.00 EST It’s a cold winter’s day, and I’m standing in a room watching my dog stare fixedly at two flower pots. I’m about to get an answer…
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Do dogs miss us when we are gone? A “talking” dog offers insights | Salon.com
The viral dog, who communicates with a series of buttons, is very curious where her friends are off to By Nicole Karlis, Published October 10, 2021 10:00AM (EDT) Any dog owner knows how hard it is to leave their pup for an extended period of time. We wonder: Do they miss us when we’re gone?…
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National Park Service to Hikers: Leave Dogs at Home – Sunset Magazine
Before bringing your furry friend on a hike, consider these important things. By Teaghan Skulszki – September 9, 2021 Animal shelters emptied out amid the COVID-19 pandemic as people adopted furry friends to quarantine with through 2021. But the adventures you may have planned with your pet may need some rethinking, according to the National Park…
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National Dog Day 2021: Benefits of having a dog – CNN
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN, Updated 12:47 PM ET, Thu August 26, 2021 (CNN) If you have a dog and tell them it’s National Dog Day, I suspect they will reply: “I thought everyday was dog day! Now where’s my treat?” As they woof that down, take a moment to reflect on all that your dog…
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The Scout Report — Volume 27, Number 33 | DOG emotion and cognition course
August 20, 2021, Volume 27, Number 33 Dog Emotion and Cognition Course, Social studies www.coursera.org/learn/dog-emotion-and-cognition Readers who want to understand canine behavior or just learn how to train their dog will benefit from Dog Emotion and Cognition. Taught by evolutionary anthropologist and self-professed “dog guy” Brian Hare, this online course offered by Duke University digs…
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How ‘The Pet Revolution’ Unleashed A New Top Dog In America : Planet Money : NPR
By Greg Rosalsky, August 10, 20216:30 AM ET If you’re in the market for gourmet dog food these days, there are a lot of options for your pooch. I mean, if you’ve got bills to pay, you could buy a 20-pound bag of chicken flavor Pedigree kibble for $12. But Open Farm Pet offers a…
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Amtrak goes all in on dogs (and pet fares add up) | WTOP
Jeff Clabaugh | jclabaugh@wtop.com, March 4, 2021, 10:43 AM Amtrak is looking for all the new passengers it can get with ridership still down about 75% from pre-pandemic levels, and that includes more dogs and cats. Amtrak has expanded its onboard pet program to include weekday Acela trains. Previously, small pets in carriers were only…
