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How pets healed us this year – The Washington Post
In Your Own Words Each week, we highlight a comment from our readers. This week, my favorite comment was on a story I wrote about how pets healed us this year. “ My beautiful mom and greyhound died last year 3 weeks apart in the fall, both tragically and unexpectedly. This past July, I adopted…
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Trump’s immigration crackdown has led to abandoned pets, crowded shelters – The Washington Post
Pets are being abandoned, surrendered amid Trump’s immigration crackdown The heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions. By María Luisa Paúl, Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EDT, 6 min Daymi Blain dreads the sound of her phone. It rings at all hours now…
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Humans believe they understand their dogs. Our research gave us pause. – The Washington Post
Dog owners don’t understand their pet’s emotions as well as they think they do. May 26, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDT, Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EDT Clive D.L. Wynne is a professor of psychology and director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University. Holly Molinaro has recently completed her PhD at Arizona State.…
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Oreo, the dog rescued from Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, is recovering – The Washington Post
National The gripping story of how Oreo the dog was rescued from the L.A. fires A Pomeranian who would only return for one man spent five days missing in Pacific Palisades, until a community of strangers rallied to bring him home .Updated January 17, 2025 Source Link: Oreo, the dog rescued from Palisades Fire in…
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Do dogs need sweaters? : NPR
Do dogs need sweaters?December 20, 20244:08 AM ETHeard on Morning EditionBy Hosts1-Minute Listen Download TranscriptIt’s December, so depending on where you live, you may be seeing a lot more dogs in sweaters. But do they really need them? Morning Edition investigates. Source: Do dogs need sweaters? : NPR
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Peak Cuteness, and Other Revelations from the Science of Puppies | The New Yorker
A new book explores how dogs and people grow up together. By Rivka Galchen, September 18, 2022 Alexandra Horowitz, the head scientist at Barnard College’s Dog Cognition Lab, has conducted a longitudinal observational study on the first year of life of a member of Canis lupus familiaris. In other words, like many others, Horowitz got…
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What Do Dogs Know About Us? – The Atlantic
Man’s best friend is surprisingly skilled at getting inside your head. By Alexandra Horowitz, September 16, 2022 Quid and I have struck a deal. Every morning she flies up the stairs, leaps onto our bed, and attacks my nose with her sharp little teeth. And I am awakened. Oh wait, no; we don’t have a…
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Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis will go to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife : NPR
By Juliana Kim Twitter, September 11, 20224:56 PM ET The Duke and Duchess of York will look after Queen Elizabeth II’s two corgis, according to news reports. Muick and Sandy are two young corgis that Prince Andrew, one of the queen’s sons, and his daughters gave her in 2021. The present was intended to lift…
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Why a pet’s death hits so hard: New book explores dealing with the loss of a beloved companion | WYPR
By NPR, Published August 22, 2022 Now Playing – Audio with article… Why a pet’s death hits so hard: New book explores dealing with the loss of a beloved companion | on-demand E.B. Bartels has cared for many pets in her life: Fish, dogs, birds and a tortoise. And she watched many of them die. In…
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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.…
