It was about six weeks into a beginners level dog obedience class when one of the students showed up without her dog. Her dog had had some kind of medical procedure which prevented it from being in ...

My family’s black Lab is good at reading body language. In my previous world of teaching and research, I would have concluded that Teddy was effective at interpreting nonverbal cues. Over the past ...

Basic commands like “sit,” “down,” or “heel” are usually the first things dogs learn in training. However, there’s another popular command that many owners teach their dogs as puppies—which is ...

A deaf dog showed off her sign language skills when she responded to a referee's hand signals on TV, going viral in the process. Sara Ruth Zirm lives in Maryland with her pup Dory, a cross-breed she ...