By Seth Kugel All dogs, it must be said, are born great. Most achieve greatness in their own waggy ways. But some — like Shola, a...

By Seth Kugel He sits forlornly on a floating staircase, his body slightly slumped and his limbs in his lap, gazing out floor-to-ceiling...

By Pamela Paul It’s not easy not being a dog person. Everyone loves a person who loves a dog. Dog people are fun-loving and down to...

By Emily Anthes Over the last two decades, a flurry of scientific studies have demonstrated, over and over again, that dogs are social...

Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, Belgian Malinois and husky mix, photographed in Greenlake Park in Seattle on June 14, 2024. Scientists...

By Esther Zuckerman How did a cat named Schnitzel win the starring role of Frodo in “A Quiet Place: Day One”? He impressed director...

By Elisabeth Egan If you’ve ever tried to wrangle a hissing, scratching, flailing, selectively incontinent beast into a cat carrier,...

By Matt Richtel Kiyomi Lowe regularly hears people mispronounce her name or sometimes forget it altogether. “I get Naomi, Kaiomi,...