How Eating Dog Became Big Business in Vietnam
Nguyen Tien Tung is just the sort of man you’d expect to run a Hanoi slaughterhouse: wiry, frenetic and filthy, his white T-shirt collaged with bloodstains, his jean shorts loose…
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Wolves Helped Us Outsmart Neanderthals
Forty thousand years ago in Europe our ancestors formed a crucial and lasting alliance that enabled us to finish off our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals. Dogs are humanity’s oldest friends,…
Dog Discrimination – Are you dogist?
Washington: Just when you were hoping there were no new ways for people to be racist, it turns out many may be racist against dogs – black dogs. Black Dog Syndrome is…
Pet Robot Ownership to Rise?
Cats and dogs could be replaced with the robotic kind in households worldwide by 2025, an Australian university professor predicts. Dr Jean-Loup Rault from the University of Melbourne says growth in…
Research Finds Hormone Bonds us and our Dogs
Scientists have found that dogs and owners experience surges in oxytocin, a hormone responsible for maternal caring, when they look into each other’s eyes a rush of hormone that helps people…
