Dogs are human’s best friends for so many reasons. They’re loyal and kind, but also incredibly smart. Some dogs are so smart that they actually work helpful jobs. Perhaps the best example of this is ...

Police dogs perform a wide variety of tasks including work that can save a life, such as search-and-rescue. If someone gets ...

California recently restricted rodenticides to protect wildlife, but rodents aren’t going away on their own. Dogs are a ...

Dogs' sniffing skills may soon get a boost, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by animal behavior experts in the United Kingdom. Since detection dogs use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff ...

As the owner of a yellow lab named Gus, author Maria Goodavage has had many occasions to bathe her pooch when he rolls around in smelly muck at the park. Nevertheless, her appreciation for his keen ...

India, April 20 -- Cardiac alert dogs are gaining attention for their potential ability to detect early signs of ...

A recent study found that not only can dogs detect our stress, but, in turn, our stress stresses out our dogs. Fortunately, service dog organizations can train dogs to channel those detection skills ...

In 1986, Connecticut’s first acceleration detection dog, Mattie, started working at the scenes of fires. Mattie worked until 1992 to detect if fires were caused by arson. Stream Connecticut News for ...

There is new hope in the fight against a devastating cancer in dogs that is often deadly. Researchers at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center in South Philadelphia are training dogs to help detect ...