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March 1, 2008
Paris Hilton has given away some of her dogs after she was investigated by US animal services.
The hotel heiress was visited by Captain Bowers of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services after recently admitting she had 17 dogs - a breach of a Los Angeles law prohibiting non-breeders having more than three […]
Is barking a by-product of domestication, a human developed trait or the evolution of a new language? Someone wrote some software (artificial neural network:) to identify what, why or how a dog is barking. Are dogs really saying something specific or do they just like to hear themselves talk?
abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4149842&page=2
ScienceDaily (2004-04-23) — Dogs in animal shelters can be helped to behave better by wafting special scents throughout their kennels and corridors, animal behaviour experts from the University of Edinburgh have found.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040422225509.htm#
Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do. And the dogs successfully demonstrate their learning through […]
ScienceDaily (2007-10-25) — The St Bernard dog — named after the 11th century priest Bernard of Menthon — is living proof that evolution does occur, say scientists. Biologists at The University of Manchester say that changes to the shape of the breed’s head over the years can only be explained through human-directed evolution through selective […]
So let’s say you and your dog are lucky enough to go to the beach…
How often do you NOT take your dog off the leash at the beach?
How often do you NOT let your dog run along the water’s edge?
How often do you run into the waves to save your dog?
all the time
most […]
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From the BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7250360.stm
Global hit hopes for pooch music
The makers of a chart-topping song only audible to dogs say they hope it can become a global hit.
A Very Silent Night […]