By domesticating dogs, humans unwittingly initiated an artificial selection experiment on personality – the results of which may have implications for our own longevity. We know that dogs were breed to specific tasks and that individual dogs were selected for reproduction based on certain behavior traits – such as activity, aggressiveness, and docility – related [...]

A Collie-Doberman mix won’t stop sniffing at a mole on the arm of its owner and even resorts to trying to bite it off. The alarmed woman contacts her doctor who affirms the worried dog’s behavior. The mole is indeed cancerous. A Yellow Lab becomes fixated on her owner’s right breast, pressing down on it [...]