The results show that cats can use human communicative cues like dogs and some other domesticated species. Source: Mary Bates, used with permission. Pointing is a unique human referential signal.

About 80% of dogs and 40% of cats will fetch, a new study finds. Domesticating turned these carnivores’ hunting methods into a game.

For geneticists, dogs and cats are both rich subjects, given their long, close history with humans and their susceptibility to many of the same diseases, from cancer to diabetes. Dogs have been an ...

Fetching was correlated with trainability in dogs, regardless of breed, pointing to the potential importance of early selection of dogs to be human helpers, long before we started developing dog ...