A genetic study has debunked the stereotypes leashed to dog breeds

A genetic study has debunked the stereotypes leashed to dog breeds

Overall, the study is a reminder that pet owners (particularly those looking to find a clone-like stand-in for old companions ) are better off choosing dogs based on their individuality and behaviors, not their breeding.

Help Your Pets Live Their Best Life

Help Your Pets Live Their Best Life

The food and environmental intolerance test works for both cats and dogs and scans a pet's hair sample (just 10-15 strands) using bioresonance technology to generate an extensive report.

Dog lover creates genius tracking app to find missing pups

Dog lover creates genius tracking app to find missing pups

Phillip James, the developer of the Smart Snout app with Willow the Dog at Gunthorpe Locks in Gunthorpe (Credits: SWNS)A dog lover has invented a gadget which can track a missing dog by treating its nose like a human fingerprint.

Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone

Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone

She resisted efforts to encourage her to a safer spot until a drone pilot suggested attaching food to one of the unmanned aerial vehicles that had been used to track the dog.“It was a crazy idea,” said Chris Taylor, the chair of the Denmead Drone Search and Rescue team.

Manchester cinema offers dog-friendly film screenings

Manchester cinema offers dog-friendly film screenings

‘That’s what people love about it’ (Picture: Mercury Press)Ever wanted to take your dog with you to the cinema?The Ducie Street Warehouse complex in Central Manchester has a small cinema that is now offering special dog-friendly screenings, so people can bring their four-legged friends along for the fun.

Who’s a clever dog? Scientists study secrets of canine cognition

Who’s a clever dog? Scientists study secrets of canine cognition

Kaminski says the eyebrow movement could be something that humans unconsciously selected for, perhaps because it makes dogs look like infants.

Hoda Kotb is 'Making Space' for life lessons from Mitch Albom

Hoda Kotb is 'Making Space' for life lessons from Mitch Albom

He wouldn't have said, 'Hey, let's talk now so that Hoda will be asking you some questions one day on her podcast.'Toward the end, she couldn't walk, but Albom said she was fine with that, since he carried her everywhere.

How about doing yoga amidst puppies? Here comes pawga!

How about doing yoga amidst puppies? Here comes pawga!

The whole idea was to make people adopt these puppies after the sessions.While the response to these sessions has been positive, people are still warming up to the idea of adopting indie pups, says Subhashree.

Pug and tortoise are best friends who love to lounge in the sun together

Pug and tortoise are best friends who love to lounge in the sun together

The couple adopted Zelda after finding her by chance when they moved with the then-one-year-old Milo to Dubai for work at the end of 2016.Michelle said: ‘We lived in an apartment before moving to our house in Dubai and one day I noticed a tortoise had wandered into our garden.

Dogs pose for brilliant nativity scene to spread Christmas cheer

Dogs pose for brilliant nativity scene to spread Christmas cheer

Scruff, Diesel and Benji as the three wise men (Picture: Mercury Press & Media)Good tidings to all from these three dogs , who have posed perfectly for a nativity scene.

John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

Readers of Gray will recognise this book as a postscript or coda to Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals , the 2002 bestseller in which he elegantly dismantled the history of western philosophy – with its illusory faith in our species living somehow “above” evolving life and outside the constraints of nature.

Purrfect match: cats and their human doubles

Purrfect match: cats and their human doubles

In 2018, Gethings had created a series of photographs of dogs that resemble people – based on looks, attitude or hairstyle – which became a bestselling memory-card game, matching poodles and chow chows with their human counterparts.

For how long do you really need to walk different breeds of dog?

For how long do you really need to walk different breeds of dog?

While it’s an admirable effort to make sure that people don’t take on pets lightly, it’s actually not true that dogs necessarily need two one-hour walks per day.

Adorable ‘puppy wrestling match’ confirmed for AEW Fyter Fest show

Adorable ‘puppy wrestling match’ confirmed for AEW Fyter Fest show

How about a casual puppy break after that first match #FyterFest #AEWDynamite — All Elite Wrestling on TNT (@AEWonTNT).Meanwhile, the main event saw Kenny Omega and Hangman Page retain the tag team titles over Best Friends before facing off with FTR and Young Bucks after the bell.

Winning by a nose: the dogs being trained to detect signs of Covid-19

Winning by a nose: the dogs being trained to detect signs of Covid-19

When Medical Detection Dogs was tasked with finding out whether malaria had a distinctive smell, Asher was assigned to the project.“If a dog comes up to something they like the odour of, they sniff really hard and rapidly, don’t they?” explains Guest.

Skilled dog balances rubber ducks on his legs while sleeping

Skilled dog balances rubber ducks on his legs while sleeping

Just a dog and his duckies (Picture: Silvio Salvan / SWNS)The owner decided to see if he could position the ducks on his sleepy companion who managed to balance eight at a time.Sparky was none the wiser (Picture: Silvio Salvan / SWN).

Now I know how fast everything can change, I won't take life's joys for granted

Now I know how fast everything can change, I won't take life's joys for granted

This week I’d planned to write about the cats that pass through my garden and how, because the circumference of my life has contracted to the flat’s perimeter, a drop-in from these nimble-pawed visitors was the day’s excitement.I have no idea what any of it means, other than having had enough of living through “historic” times.

Something to chew on: New Zealand man sets up 'stick library' for dogs

Something to chew on: New Zealand man sets up 'stick library' for dogs

“While trimming the trees, my dad found himself with a lot of dead branches, and knowing from experience how hard it can be to find a good stick, and that the new dog park was opening soon, he had the idea that he would save them and put them in some kind of box,” Reece told Metro.

Dad creates ‘stick library’ for dogs

Dad creates ‘stick library’ for dogs

Tayla Reece, Andrew Taylor and the ‘stick library’ (Picture: Caters News Agency)Andrew’s invention has been a hit with dogs and their owners at the park.

This pizza shop is helping pet owners find their lost dogs and cats

This pizza shop is helping pet owners find their lost dogs and cats

After posting an invitation on Facebook for locals to drop off flyers with their own missing pets to be put on pizza boxes, he woke up the next morning to dozens of messages, texts and phone calls.