At a recent neighborhood gathering I found myself chatting with a woman who told me, "Dogs are really smart. My dog Robbie can read my moods better than my eight-year-old son Steven." Her part of the ...

A birthday gift became one of the most remarkable experiments in animal cognition. Chaser, a Border Collie from Spartanburg, South Carolina, held the largest tested memory of any non-human animal — ...

Dogs have a way of surprising us, and one of the quirkiest things they do is watch TV. Recent research shows that this habit is cute. And it is a window into how dogs think, feel, and react to the ...