If your dog is having a ruff time, throw them a bone. A new study published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science suggests that giving an anxious dog a chew toy can actually help improve ...

Rescue dogs often come from difficult backgrounds, and many pet owners wonder if their furry friends remember their past experiences. While dogs have short-term and long-term memories, the question of ...

You go to the vet maybe once a year for those regular check-ups and booster shots, but whenever you get within five blocks of the vet's office, your dog starts whining, panting, and looking anxious.

Can a dog help to replace a person's failing memory? I recently wrote an article describing some new programs designed to train dogs to assist people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia (click here ...

Petting a dog leads to increased brain activity, researchers in Switzerland have found — and thus petting a dog and observing it may increase your focus and attention. That's according to a study ...

Canines have incredible memories. It is a powerful part of cognition. And just like in humans, there are different kinds of memory in dogs. In this episode, Dr. Hare chats with a top expert in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research into dogs' long-term memory shows that dogs can remember the names of toys even years after not seeing or playing ...

It’s the sort of thought that might pass through any dog owner’s mind as they return home from a long workday and are slobbered over by their canine: Can dogs remember the past they share with their ...

Researchers at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, tested a theory that a dog's adorable head tilt could be linked to their ability to process the names of objects Digital News Writer, ...

Source: Davie Dunn/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It sometimes appears that older dogs have poorer memory because they seem to have difficulty learning new things. However, as I pointed out in a recent post, the dog ...