dog facts

Canine cancer detection is an approach to early detection cancer screening that relies dog’s incredible olfactory(smell) receptors and research is continuing to prove their ability to detect certain types of cancer in humans. Research suggests that dogs can detect many types of cancers in humans. Like many other diseases, cancers leave specific traces, or odor signatures, in a person’s […]

A group of scientists studying how dogs respond to human speech have discovered how best to apologise to your pet when you accidentally step on their toes or tail. When it comes to taking care of a dog, most owners go above and beyond to make sure their pet is happy and healthy. But every now

Female dogs judge human competence and are more likely to approach those who are able to accomplish tasks for them, according to a study from Kyoto University in Japan. In the study “Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans,” Japanese researchers examined how both male and female dogs reacted to “competent” and “incompetent” people

Dogs have many extraordinary abilities and physical attributes, including speed, sense of smell and inherited instincts to hunt and guard. Dogs, contrary to popular belief, do not see the world in black-and-white. Their vision is red-green colour blind meaning they can only see in shades of blue and yellow. Dog Eye Anatomy The anatomy of

Dogs have more “fast-twitch” muscle fibres around their eyes and mouths than wolves do, which allows them to make more facial expressions, likely to communicate with humans better. The faces of dogs have evolved over tens of thousands of years to make them more appealing to humans, unlike the wild wolves they descended from, a

Dogs commonly tilt their heads when they hear some noises or voices, but is it a sign of intelligence, or does it mean something else entirely? In a 2021 study in the journal Animal Cognition(opens in new tab), researchers in Hungary conducted the first scientific investigation of head-tilting in pooches. They found that dogs may incline