If you believe many of the TV news broadcasts and postings on YouTube then you also believe that dogs often help people spontaneously, and often heroically. There are many reports of dogs pulling ...

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It’s what he was born to do. Across Minnesota, more than a dozen organizations are breeding, raising and training a growing legion of service dogs to help people with a widening range of disabilities ...

In short order, Teddy -- a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 3-year-old yellow Lab -- punched a wall button with his nose, yanked a rope to open a kitchen cabinet door and tugged a walker across the floor.

Kevin Morris receives funding for this research from the Morris Animal Foundation, the Human-Animal Bond Research Institute, and the University of Denver. Jaci Gandenberger receives funding from the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In a 2022 survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, more than one-third of respondents reported that on most days, they feel “completely overwhelmed” by stress. At the same time, a growing body ...