When should a dog be desexed? Australian survey shows how vets decide
A survey of 107 Australian veterinarians explores how dog size, owner circumstances and behavioral expectations shape desexing advice, without measuri…
Canine desexing attitudes and practices of Australian veterinarians: A cross-sectional survey
Original open-access study by Impey and colleagues, reporting Australian veterinarians’ canine desexing recommendations and surgical practices. Incl…
Breakfast reduced false alerts in a small scent-detection study
A six-dog study found fewer false alerts after breakfast. A companion paper examined behavior in the same dogs. What the findings mean, and what they …
Effects of feeding on dogs’ frustration-related behaviours during a laboratory-based scent detection task
Original abstract and complete CC BY 4.0 paper on feeding and frustration-related behavior in six dogs during a laboratory scent-detection task. Fount…
A new way to study cognitive aging in dogs
CANID combines memory and executive-function tasks to study cognitive aging in companion dogs. The new paper finds age-related differences, with impor…
Cognitive assessment for neuropsychological impairments in dogs (CANID): an efficient, repeatable, and sensitive evaluation for studies of cognitive aging
Original abstract and complete open-access CANID paper on assessing memory and executive function in companion dogs. Hargrave et al., Animal Cognition…
Can dogs match children’s voices to faces? A study offers tentative clues
A Japanese experiment offers tentative clues about how dogs connect girls’ and women’s voices with faces. Here is what the results do, and do not,…
Dogs might associate the voices and faces of human girls and adult women
Original abstract and unmodified open-access paper on dogs’ responses to the voices and faces of girls and adult women.
South Korean lawmaker calls for stronger retirement support for working dogs
A South Korean lawmaker is calling for more consistent retirement funding and better medical and behavioral record transfers. Existing adoption assist…
Effect of Handler Knowledge of the Detection Task on Canine Search Behavior and Performance
Original 2020 research by DeChant, Ford and Hall on handler knowledge, search behavior and detection-dog performance. Includes the abstract and comple…
What makes a good life for a dog? Welfare, choice and lessons from India
A study of professionals observing free-living dogs in India explores how human ideas of care, safety and choice shape our judgments about a good life…
Cross-Cultural Encounters With Free-Living Dogs as Epistemic Disruption in Western Dog Training Expertise
Published abstract and full open-access paper examining how encounters with free-living dogs in India challenged the assumptions of Western dog-traini…
Detection dogs can find earless dragon scat, but field searches pose challenges
A new study tests dogs on Victorian grassland earless dragon scat and shows why strong odor-lineup results do not guarantee success in field searches.
OnkoDog will test whether dogs can detect cancer in urine
Germany's OnkoDog project will test whether trained dogs can detect prostate, bladder and kidney cancers in urine. Here is what the team plans to inve…
Confidence vs Defensive Aggression Interactive Chart
This isn’t a perfect representation, but the underlying concept holds true: the more confident a dog is, the more their facial features pull forward; the…