That guilty look and other assumptions humans make about dog’s feelings

Dogs are very good at understanding us – sadly, the reverse is not always so true.

Jan Hoole, The Conversation

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Daniel Allen, The Conversation

· Aug 28, 2018 · 11:30 pm

How American dogs disappeared and left behind a contagious cancer

The closest living relative of these bygone dogs is Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour – an opportunistic, sexually-transmitted dog cancer.

Máire Ní Leathlobhair, The Conversation

· Jul 09, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Mumbai’s doughty strays and their kind caretakers get a pictorial ode in a new children’s book

Activist Abodh Aras’s ‘My City, My Dogs’ proves that street dogs aren’t ‘nameless creatures just hanging around’.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Apr 07, 2018 · 11:30 am

It’s in their genes – Dogs are friendly and faithful to humans because of DNA traits, finds study

Tests found a link between certain genes and canine behaviour, such as paying attention to strangers.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 21, 2017 · 01:43 pm

Indians love their Labradors – until they decide to abandon them

Labradors are the third-highest abandoned dog breed in the country after the Spitz and the German Shepherd.

Suneera Tandon, qz.com

· May 14, 2017 · 07:30 pm

India’s love for Labradors and German Shepherds is driving its indigenous dog breeds to extinction

Even the most ardent dog lovers are probably unfamiliar with Chippiparais, Jonangis and Kombais.

Soumya Rao

· Apr 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

Dogs lie to get their way, finds new study

An experiment found that canines are capable of ‘tactical deception’ and can change their behaviour to work in their favour.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 14, 2017 · 01:46 pm

The heart-warming story of a Mumbai cobbler whose love for dogs landed him in debt

Manoj Purbhe is now the star of a crowdfunding campaign online.

Rhema Mukti Baxter

· Jan 25, 2017 · 03:45 pm

How did Moscow's stray dogs learn to navigate the metro?

The answer lies in the history we share with our canine companions.

Jacqueline Boyd, The Conversation

· Feb 21, 2016 · 11:30 pm

With Saturn in retrograde zone, stray dog shelters are flooded with adoption requests

Astrologers claim feeding black canines brings good luck. But adoption agencies fear the pups will eventually be abandoned.

Aarefa Johari

· Jun 03, 2014 · 06:28 am