A growing body of genetic research is revealing a troubling truth about some of the world’s most popular purebred dogs, ...

Humans began selectively breeding dogs around 2,000 years ago, and these genes play a role in your pup's behavior, a new study of 4,000 purebred, mixed-breed and wild dogs finds. When you purchase ...

In the beginning, there was only Tasha. Twenty years ago, the purebred boxer became the first domestic dog to have her genome ...

Melissa Starling owns Creature Teacher, an animal behaviour consulting business. Over thousands of years of firm friendship between humans and dogs, we have successfully created about 350 different ...

A Solon Springs musher is working with the University of Minnesota's Canine Genetics Lab to research a rare disease and its ...

Dog breeding is a huge, lucrative international enterprise, and there are clear problems in breeders’ efforts to produce dogs who suffer from any number of physical and emotional maladies to satisfy ...

If you want to learn more about your dog—whether their breed or detailed information about genetic makeup—the best dog DNA tests are a worthwhile investment. Just like DNA tests for people, these ...