The interesting aspect of this dog’s very positive ‘artificial’ smile is that it more or less exactly copies that of her owner who is smiling at her as she hovers near him while he cares for the baby. It appears that she wants to be …
The firework season is upon us. Poor us and the same goes for our dogs 😢. Dogs are more sensitive than cats to fireworks and cats are very sensitive to them. Personally, I hate fireworks so I must have been a dog in my former …
Here are 7 suggestions on how dogs interpret different types of petting by their human caregiver which gives them pleasure for reasons sometimes unknown to the caregiver. Scratching a male dog’s chest between the forelegs is pleasing to him because it feels like he is …
This is a little snapshot of real life, and it is the dog who gets it in the butt, but there is a good ending. A man anonymously confessed to something rather horrible on the Twitter feed of ‘Fesshole’. The creator of the Twitter account …
You can train dogs to be quiet when there is a knock on the door or the doorbell sounds. It’s useful to know why dogs bark under these circumstances. Dogs don’t bark to frighten the person knocking on the door. They bark as a canine …
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have come to the conclusion that right-sided tail wagging in dogs is a sign of contentment. They also decided that right-sided wagging is linked to the left side of the brain where positive emotions are processed. …
Two unrelated female dogs (bitches) nurse each other’s puppies. I cannot find anything on the Internet which tells me that unrelated female dogs share the parenting of their puppies. I have made the presumption that these females are unrelated because they look very different. That …
This is a dog escape to match the best cat escapes. This was smart thinking and brave acting. Of course, we have no idea why a puppy was in a pool of water with a ‘congregation’ of alligators. Yes, a group of alligators is called …
Mother of two, Ivana, had lost her purse. It had vanished and she was at a loss as to who the culprit was. She then noticed that Daisy, her 12-week-old Bichon Frise puppy had stopped eating. Her little pup then started to vomit. It transpired …
