It’s not just cats and dogs – we often feel a deep emotional bond with small animals like rabbits and guinea-pigs too.
Natural selection changed just 13 genes to separate your Felix and Fluffy from their African wildcat ancestor.
The environmental pawprint of pets is huge – and it’s mostly down to what we feed them.
Dogs and ground-nesting birds in breeding season: why the two should never meet.
The good news is that we can all improve our happiness levels with daily practice.
Keeping human foods away from pets is one way to avoid emergency veterinary hospital runs during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s.
The death of a pet can be a deeply painful experience. But acknowledging the way pet grief is different can help people find consolation.
A scholar of law and humanities compares bans on dogs with any pit bull genes to “one drop” laws that once classified people with even a single Black ancestor as Black.
The monkeypox virus can easily spread between humans and animals. A veterinary virologist explains how the virus could go from people to wild animals in the US – and why that could be a problem.
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