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 ...

The town's police introduced its new police dog, Riggs, to students at Blairstown Elementary School on Thursday.

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

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

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.

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

As it happened for Kynlee, she asked her mother one night if dogs also have cleft lips—to which her mom replied "of course ...