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How dogs can detect toxic people, according to science

New research suggests dogs may sense negative intentions through emotional cues, behavior, and even chemical signals.
CNN

Dogs can match some words with objects, study suggests

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...
Opinion

COLUMNIST: Experimenting on dogs is getting harder to defend

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...

Why we may be misreading our dogs' emotions

Humans and dogs have been living together side by side for thousands of years, so you would think we know everything about ...

You Might Be Misreading Your Dog

Another element that may cloud our judgement of dog emotions: our own moods. People’s feelings can shape how they perceive ...

Defense Department, NIH collaborating on ‘cruel’ dog experiments with ‘problematic’ Chinese labs, GOP lawmakers and watchdog say

The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for ...
Phys.org

When you're happy, your dog might look sad: Study reveals surprising twist in how people read canine emotions

When people are feeling happy, they're more likely to see other people as happy. If they're feeling down, they tend to view other people as sad. But when dealing with dogs, this well-established ...
MLive

Lawmakers stop short of statewide ban on painful experiments using dogs, cats

LANSING, MI – A proposed ban on research experiments in Michigan that might injure, traumatize or kill dogs and cats has been watered down. After a substitution Wednesday, the proposed legislation ...
San Antonio Express-News

Fatal experiments on dogs continue in VA system as investigation begins

A controversial experiment on dogs continues at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Ohio. The dogs are used in experiments that officials say could help veterans with ALS, paralysis and stroke cough, ...
Richmond

Senators attack dog experiments at McGuire VA in letter, requests info on taxpayer dollars spent on them, calls them 'painful and deadly'

Researchers at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond have induced heart attacks in dogs, surgically implanted pacemakers into them and trained them to run on treadmills, all in the ...
Dayton Daily News

VA ordered to end experiments on dogs, cats and primates by 2026

Experiments and testing on cats, dogs and primates by the Department of Veterans Affairs must end by 2026 under newly enacted legislation that lawmakers highlighted during a House subcommittee hearing ...

Experimenting on Dogs Is Getting Harder to Defend

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure ...