Dogs

A French bulldog puppy looks at the camera

Spotify creates podcast to save your pup from loneliness

Lifestyle

Spotify has launched a podcast designed to calm your dog when he is home alone, in response to owners’ request and scientific studies that prove a connection between pets and humans.

Laika’s Dream

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media
Dog running with owner

Dog owners live longer, a new study says

Health

While even good human relationships can be complicated, a family dog will unfailingly greet its members with simple joy. Now, a new study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that, along with the blessing of uncritical friendship, household dogs can actually help people live longer.

Atlanta (left) and her sister Phoenix lounge with a volunteer outside the cargo hall before leaving Istanbul.

Turkey has a golden retriever problem. America can help.

Culture

Dog rescue volunteers are celebrating their 1,000th Turkish golden retriever airlifted to the US.

President Barack Obama runs on green grass, holding a football in his hands, as the family dog Bo chases close behind on May 12, 2009.

President Trump, will you follow other presidents and get a White House dog?

Global Politics

Presidential pets have been a mainstay in the White House. Will Trump follow suit and welcome a dog?

Dog giving "puppy eyes"

Do dogs understand what we’re saying to them?

Science

A new study says yes, dogs can process speech in much the same way humans can.

Vlada Provotorova picks up dogs off the street and takes them to her makeshift shelter on the outskirts of Sochi.

How Russians and Americans have teamed up to rescue Sochi’s stray dogs

Culture

The Sochi dog adoption scheme started during the run-up to the Sochi Olympics in 2014, when Russian officials, in an effort to rid the city of packs of stray dogs, began shooting them.