dogs

Collection of Pet Photos Shows the Changing and Enduring Relationship of People and Dogs

Anthony Cavo's collection of photographs shows the changing relationships of people and their pets, as well as the changing technology of photography. 

Dog Breed Stereotypes are Poor Guides to Behavior; Historian Explains Why they Are So Common

Science Historian Michael Worboys explains that the Victorian craze for dog breeding enshrined both a focus on dogs' outward appearances and the idea that heredity was all-important to a dog's quality, leading to frequent disappointment for owners who find their pets don't fit expectations. 

How Alvin the Beagle Helped Usher in a Democratic Senate

On the surface, Raphael Warnock's campaign ads featured a cute beagle. But they reflected a calculated – and successful – effort to counter racial dynamics in Georgia politics to bring about a historic victory. 

Major And Champ Are Major Champs In This Election: Dogs Return To The White House

It is probably the least consequential outcome of the election result, but dogs will be returning to the White House. 

Biden's German Shepherd Major Set to be the First Shelter Rescue Dog in White House

Biden's two dogs will restore the long tradition of presidential pets; Donald Trump was the first president in 100 years not to have a dog in the White House. 

Call Off the Dogs, Mr. Trump

by Clive D.L. Wynne

Domestic dogs have genetically determined capacities to bond with humans; this has historically made them frighteningly effective conduits for human hatreds and aggression.   

Mary Thompson Featured in Article on George Washington's Dog Breeding

Among the names the future first president gave his dogs were Sweet Lips, Venus, Trulove, Taster, Tippler, Drunkard and Madame Moose.

A dog helped kill Baghdadi, joining a long history of canine war heroes

On Sunday, another dog was added to the hall of canine heroes: A Belgian Malinois that tore after Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a darkened tunnel in Syria.

'Paradogs' lured with meat out of aircraft behind enemy lines in WWII

Lance Corporal Ken Bailey was asked to train up the “paradogs” so they could be used as the “eyes and ears” of the soldiers on the ground.The dogs, which would be given minimal food and water before the jump, were being prepared to parachute into Normandy for D-Day landing and would freeze if they heard a sound.They were also trained to become familiar with loud noises and smells such as cordite, the explosive powder.Their handlers would carry a piece of meat in their pockets on the aircraft so as they parachuted out the “paradogs” would jump out after them.The documents written by L/Cpl Bailey, who served in the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion and was from Liverpool, were discovered by Andrew Woolhouse, who spent five years researching his book....

D.N.A. backs lore on pre-Columbian dogs

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Inside a fenced acre on the swampy Lynches River flood plain in central South Carolina, seven of Don Anderson’s primitive dogs spring into high alert at approaching strangers. Medium-sized, they fan out amid his junkyard of improvised habitat: a few large barrels to dig under, an abandoned camper shell from a pickup, segments of black plastic water pipe and backhoed dirt mounds overgrown with waist-high ragweed....Some Carolina dogs still live in the wild, and local people have long thought they were one of the few breeds that predated the European arrival in the Americas: “Our native dog,” as Michael Ruano, another enthusiast who often works with Mr. Anderson, put it. “America’s natural dog.”