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Tiamat Warda's new book on emotional labor will help guide dogs and their humans to work together in mutually productive and ...

Playing with a pooch can help our brains concentrate and relax, a family dog can help prevent food allergies in children, and ...

It's no surprise that dogs benefit people's mental health. In a paper published in iScience, researchers point to a reason as ...

Superficially, gene flow between dingoes and European dogs sounds like a negative outcome. Our research, however, suggests ...

Other studies have shown dog owners have differences in their microbiomes, including greater microbial diversity, compared to ...

Dogs prompt changes in the microbiome, the collection of all microorganisms - including bacteria, fungi and viruses - that ...

The psychological reasons behind our tendency to talk to dogs like they are human are complex, ranging from our innate need ...

Like some other mammals, kangaroos have the propensity for deep emotions, including grief. We have more in common with them ...

We know that pets influence our microbiome, but scientists have now found that having a dog seems to change this ecosystem in ...

It’s no surprise that dogs benefit people’s mental health. In a paper publishing in the Cell Press ...