Pet dogs learn to find invasive plants in German conservation project
A German project brought pet dogs, their owners and professional trainers together to explore a role for volunteer teams in finding invasive plants.
Judge Dog Training by the Life It Leaves Behind
A trainer's job is a better, lasting life for dog and owner. No single narrow measure of a dog's emotions should stand in for that larger question.
What Captive Wolves Do After Aggression, and Why Trainers Should Watch Closely
A study of five captive wolf groups compared the minutes after naturally occurring aggression with matched calm periods. Its attention to timing, part…
Vietnam’s Working-Dog Safety Rules: A Model Worth Examining
Vietnam’s working-dog safety rules grew from a broader worker-protection framework. Their continuation offers a model to examine where a formal prog…
Dogs respond to crying. Are they sharing our sadness?
A study of 35 pet dogs separates their responses to acted crying from evidence that they share a person’s sadness. What the behavior, heart monitors…
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…
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Will an Untrained Dog Protect their Owner on a Walk?
K9-1 on Inside Edition answering the question, “Will an untrained dog protect their owner on a walk?”
K9-1 on Inside Edition “Will Your Dog Protect You from an Attacker?”
Will the average pet dog protect you from an attacker? It depends on a lot of factors, but here we test a few average family…