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Apps aren't just for people anymore. Here is a roundup of popular pet apps for mobile devices. The cost of apps ranges from free to a few dollars.

As if dogs and cats didn’t already have enough of a perceived gulf between them, along comes a survey that shows that millionaires greatly prefer dogs over cats.

While Prancer and Vixen help bring Christmas cheer, it’s Fido and Fluffy we’re thinking of more and more this time of year. Americans spend an average of $5 billion on their pets during the holidays and more than $50 billion on them annually, according to...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Don't know what to get your pet dog for the holiday? Depending on whether they were naughty or nice, nothing will say Christmas quite like a special Japanese holiday cake for canines. Pastry chef and Italian restaurant owner Naohiko Nagatani came up with a dog-friendly take on Japan's Christmas cake, which …

There was a time when old English sheepdogs dominated television screens and newspaper comic strips. Now it's hard to find one beyond a dog show.

The spirit of Lassie is alive and well in a dog named Ashapoo. The trusty canine was always at the side of his owner's two-year-old grandson, Peyton. And that was a good thing when Peyton's grandfather turned his back for a minute as he was planning to take the boy on a trip on the [...]

Add seven swans, six geese and five golden rings to the list of Christmas gifts that cost more than they did a year ago.

Shannon Elizabeth chats with Access, as she offers up a new Thanksgiving tradition she hopes more people will try -- adopting a turkey!

A kidnapping attempt was thwarted in Indianapolis on Tuesday when a family's dog stopped an armed would-be kidnapper from leaving the family's home. Police say a man and a woman broke into the home of Nayeli Garzon-Jimenez through the back door while her husband was at work. Garzon-Jimenez was on the phone with her husband, …

The DogHeirs site has created a section titled, "Dogs are family for life," where pet owners can upload mirroring "then and now" photographs taken with their pets, sometimes as long as 14 years apart. If you have your own side-by-side dog photos, you can upload them to the DogHeirs site or to its Dogs Are [...]

In Mason County, Wash., the salmon aren't just swimming upstream—they're also swimming across the street. Due to heavy rains, local rivers are flooding and the confused fish are winding up in some strange places. And that's just fine with at least one local dog. The pooch, who must be thinking that Christmas came early, …

We’ve all heard that a dog’s bark can be worse than its bite, but what about its yawn? It turns out that aspect of canine behavior may provide evidence that dogs really are man’s best friend. A study out of Lund University in Sweden found that...

A stroll down any street can show that dog owners sometimes look like their dogs, or vice versa, and studies have proven that people tend to choose dogs that mirror themselves and their own personalities. Now, one Swedish photographer has taken that to the next...

As John Dolan lay in a hospital bed at the Good Samaritan Medical Center  in Islip, N.Y., last Thursday, he got a phone call he least expected. A hospital employee, later identified as a man named Rick, told Dolan that he was standing outside the...

Different Breeds Have Different Owners, Study Finds