Joan Merriam lives in Nevada City with her new golden retriever Frankie, her Maine coon cat Indy, and the infinite spirits of her beloved goldens Joey and Casey. You can reach Joan at ...

If Joy Nachmias ever needs a reminder of what all the dollars and decades she’s invested in dog breeding were for, she need ...

Africa’s white lions have a recessive gene that gives them their unusual ... a "subspecies" so they can be better protected. My dog Buster has the skin condition vitiligo. It causes ...

In the last few years, you may have noticed German Shepherds with increasingly sloped hocks and Boxers with increasingly flat faces at the Westminster dog show, AKC Championship, and other exhibitions ...

"Many of these people are educated, and hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or influence over Black people." ...

Cats typically haven’t been bred for the huge range of work tasks that dogs have, but genetic mutations ... is that they merely developed a recessive gene that was intentionally bred into ...

Predictably, this led to some purebred dogs passing on, generation after generation, recessive genes that have resulted in a toxic soup of physical abnormalities and disease susceptibilities.

it is because many of the genetic diseases are a product of generations of line breeding (a polite way of saying incest), and ...