After a horrific dog mauling case in Walker County over the summer, the county commission has taken steps to get a handle on ...

Prosecutors said Thursday that they have made no plea bargain offers to Mary Jane Rivers, a Mobile woman accused of ...

Kyler Murray faced criticism after he posted a photo of himself in Michael Vick jersey, with a pit bull resting at his feet. The Cardinals said he doesn't condone animal cruelty.

Purring also plays a role in bonding with people. The low-frequency rumble of a cat’s purr has been linked not only to ...

U.S. News and World Report has dropped the top dog names in Georgia for 2025. Is your pup’s name on the list? Here's more.

A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

"I call this 'worming' and my dog has done it forever. It's how she tells me she's ready to get out of bed everyday," one ...

Human infants naturally learn new words and their associations, such as how spoons are related to plates because they are ...

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by function, a new example of complex cognitive activity in the canine brain.

A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...

With a long list of chores, you may be wondering how much you could train your dog to help out. Here's what an expert has to ...

"So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same.” Fugazza and her Hungarian colleagues have been studying canine behavior and cognition for several years. For instance, in 2023, we reported on ...