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Dog Facial Expressions and Body Language Explained by Science
A dog’s facial expressions and the body language that goes with it crucial to understand if you want to know how your dog is...
The Science and Psychology of Dog Language: Does Your Dog Get You?
Nearly all dog owners talk to their pets, but how much meaning do the dogs absorb? Certainly dogs understand how to follow commands we’ve...
Dog Sounds: What Is Your Dog Telling You?
Dogs talk! They might not ask you how your day was, but they do indeed have their own set of vocalizations they communicate through....
4 Ways Dog Ownership Makes People Happy (Based on Research)
Many cultures have their own theories and explanations for the sacred bond between humans and animals, especially the bond between humans and dogs. Dogs...
Humans Have Superior Brains, But Dogs Think More Rationally
Who would've thought that it’s apparently in the dog’s nature to be rational? And how exactly does our dogs' rationality manifests itself? Researchers have...
5 Ways Your Smartphone Addiction Is Negatively Affecting Your Dog
Experts have not been lacking in warning us of the negative health implications of our smartphone addiction. But most of us will not be...
Dog Dominance: How You Can Use It to Train Multiple Dogs
Understanding dogs is a skill that comes only with practice and experience. A few behaviors that typical to dogs are easy to figure out....
10 Reasons Your Dog Barks
A dog barking is just as natural as a child learning to talk and as with any form of communication, it crops up for...
What Do Dogs Think About?
The question on many dog owner’s minds is not, “does my dog think,” but rather, “what do dogs think about?” Researchers know that canines...
8 Evidence-Based Ways to Deal With a Hyperactive Dog
You've adopted a dog without a complete understanding what you were getting yourself into. Maybe you did the research and adopted a breed that...
8 Scientific Reasons to Socialize Your Dog
Dogs are inherently pack animals, much like their wolf ancestors. Research shows that this mindset is deeply ingrained in Canis Familiaris, so to withhold...
Why Your Dog Digs and How to Stop This Behavior
There are a lot of problematic behaviors that a dog can display and many of those often catch dog owners by surprise. One of...
