Dog breeds that are especially vulnerable include various types of terriers, boxers and bulldogs; in cats, it’s Persians, ...

While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and more alike. Preferred features include a flat face and huge eyes ...

Overall, 32.1 percent of American households own a cat, which adds up to 42.2 million homes. Yet, a lot of what we think we know about dogs and cats is hearsay, myth, or old wives’ tales.

Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals they evolved from ...

That doesn’t mean that cats and dogs experience humanlike dreams ... a philosopher at San Francisco State University and author of the book When Animals Dream. For example, humans rarely ...

There’s a reason why your dog will scarf down a cookie while your cat turns up its nose—and it’s all in the genes, say scientists. A blue Persian cat stares intensely at goldfish in a bowl ...

Le Guin’s Book of Cats, due out this fall, pulls together poems, musings and sketches by the science fiction writer, who died in 2018. Speaking by phone from Los Angeles, where she lives with her ...

I love books with dogs in them, but I have mixed feelings about books narrated by dogs (or cats or parakeets, etc). It’s not that I’m not game to go almost anywhere a story wants to take me ...

But every single foster cat and dog has come with a heart-wrenching back story. Three years on, Batasha, the gentlest cat I have encountered to date, still moves around the house gingerly in a ...

“They’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” This specious claim has a sorry history.

Dr. Jane E. Sykes, a specialist in infectious diseases in dogs and cats at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said, “If the virus was to change in the future, as it’s shown it can do ...