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

A traffic-light system for dogwalkers could protect breeding birds, seal pups and other wildlife

Our proposed system of coloured pawprints would provide consistent countryside guidelines for dog walkers.

Matthew Heard, Professor of Ecology, Head of Environmental Research and Data, The National Trust • conversation
June 11, 2025 ~7 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

When dogs return to nature – just how domesticated are our pooches really?

The story of a miniature dachshund surviving in the wild shows we may not know our pets as well as we might like to think.

Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
April 15, 2025 ~7 min

Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to experience the world more through scent than sight.

Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
April 1, 2025 ~7 min

Why do dogs love to play with trash?

While you might not like how your trash smells, to your dog it is an appealing buffet brimming with apple cores, banana peels, meat scraps and stale bread.

Nancy Dreschel, Associate Teaching Professor of Small Animal Science, Penn State • conversation
March 31, 2025 ~6 min

Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can learn to do better

Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.

Juliane Kaminski, Associate professor of comparative Psychology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
March 26, 2025 ~6 min


Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can do learn to do better

Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.

Juliane Kaminski, Associate professor of comparative Psychology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
March 26, 2025 ~6 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

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