Genius dogs know tens of toys by name… but truly gifted canines know over 100

Tubby little bundles of joy, guide-dog puppies may be irresistibly sweet, but they’ve been expertly engineered to perform life-changing duties, discovers Katy Birchall

I stop short of taking my next step. Somewhere amid the squeak-crunch of snow beneath my boots and the footfalls and heavy breathing of our labrador, Hobbes, there is something else. The two of us sta

Many dogs aren’t into toys at all, and that’s fine because we have to accept the dog we have, not the one we may have expected him to be or any of the ones our friends have. Few dogs, however, can res

The mythology surrounding creative and scientific breakthroughs

That figure could rise further. A wave of cutting-edge canine science is sweeping the globe, with everything from the Dog Aging Project’s 50,000-pet study, to biotech firms racing to develop anti-agei

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