This post is in response to When Children Play, They Follow the Golden Rules of Fairness By Peter Gray Ph.D. Twelve years ago, I published a kid's book called Animals at Play: Rules of the Game. I was ...

A lot of recent research has confirmed that there are stress-reducing benefits when people have positive encounters with dogs. It is this effect that accounts for the increasingly widespread use of ...

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Some dogs are seemingly more talented than others. So-called gifted word learners (GWL) are rare canines that can rapidly learn the names of toys, a skill that most dogs don't possess. To understand ...