Is your cat vocal or quiet? The explanation could be in their genes

Scientists have found a gene that is linked to noisier cats.

Grace Carroll, Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast • conversation
June 24, 2025 ~6 min

How to keep your pets free of fleas

The summer heat has crept in—and fleas have owners and pets alike itching. An expert has tips to help your pets remain flea-free.

Texas A&M University • futurity
June 17, 2025 ~6 min


Team finds surprising ‘copycat evolution’ in some cats and dogs

Biologists have shown evidence of a kind of "copycat" evolution between extremely short-faced breeds of cats and dogs.

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
May 6, 2025 ~9 min

How dogs and cats are evolving to look alike and why it’s humans’ fault - new research

Human fashion can be as powerful as millions of years of evolution – and it’s harming our pets.

Grace Carroll, Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast • conversation
May 2, 2025 ~7 min

Do cats make good therapy animals? The new trend showing felines may be more complicated than we realise

Therapy dogs aren’t for everyone.

Grace Carroll, Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast • conversation
April 22, 2025 ~7 min

Some cats may be good therapy animals

"There's this perception that cats just aren't suitable for this kind of work, but our study shows that some cats may thrive in these settings."

Washington State • futurity
March 20, 2025 ~5 min

Just having a pet doesn’t help mental health – but pet-owners with secure relationships with their pets are less depressed

Do you have a secure or anxious attachment with your pet?

Brian N. Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Trinity College • conversation
Feb. 28, 2025 ~6 min

Animals that are all black or all white have reputations based on superstition − biases that have real effects

What may be scariest about a spooky black cat is the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and biases about animals based only on their color.

Tyus Williams, PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley • conversation
Oct. 25, 2024 ~8 min


The ‘bully cats’ bred to resemble American bully dogs and how fashion is creating mutant pet breeds

The mutant breed was created by crossing munchkin and sphynx cats.

Grace Carroll, Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast • conversation
Oct. 16, 2024 ~7 min

Cats and dogs both like to play fetch − it’s rooted in their hunting instincts

About 80% of dogs and 40% of cats will fetch, a new study finds. Domesticating turned these carnivores’ hunting methods into a game.

Judith Stella, Senior Research Scientist, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University • conversation
Sept. 4, 2024 ~8 min

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