Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Alana Stevenson
Living with more than one dog can be a rewarding experience. Dogs love the company of other dogs. Knowing how to prevent problems and teaching dogs how to share resources so they do not bully each other, or pester you, is pivotal to having a harmonious...
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- Written by: Stephanie Laura Bond, et al
Catastrophic fires across the globe are increasing in both frequency and magnitude. The bushfires in Australia, fuelled by heatwaves and drought, have burned more than 10.7 million hectares, an area larger than Iceland.
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- Written by: Caroline Spence
Like a B-movie for a post-Brexit era, consumers in Britain may soon be unwillingly cast in the 2019 blockbuster, Attack of the Chlorine Chickens.
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- Written by: Diane Budd
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of animal communication. You may have even asked an animal communicator to work with your animal, and it’s changed how you think and the way you interact with animals.
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- Written by: Simon F. Haeder et al
Americans love their pets, spending more than US$70 billion last year on their beloved companions. This far exceeds the $7 billion spent on legal marijuana, and $32 billion on pizza, just for two examples.
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- Written by: Lauren Powell and Emmanuel Stamatakis
Feeling lonely? A dog may help. Our research out today confirms what many dog owners already know: dogs are great companions that can help you to feel less lonely.
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- Written by: Nancy Windheart
Many people will be celebrating Halloween here in the US…and around this time of year, I often get questions about how our companion animals feel about wearing clothes and costumes...
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- Written by: Jacob Beck
Sarah, “the world’s smartest chimp,” died in July 2019, just before her 60th birthday.
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- Written by: Niki J. Senior
Connecting with animals involves so much more than petting, grooming, rewarding, or feeding. Connecting in a profound way strengthens the inseparable bond we already have with our animal friends. For me, the deep bond enables me to understand animals better, on every single level: behaviorally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
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- Written by: L.F. Carver
Is home somewhere that you feel comfortable? Is it filled with memories of beloved friends and family — some of whom may be furry animals?
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- Written by: Ilana Halperin
Declawing a cat might sound as simple as trimming your pet’s nails. But it’s actually major surgery.
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- Written by: Steve Portugal
For most animals, the structure of their day – and indeed their year – depends on the light-dark cycle. These regular and rhythmic cycles in the length of days tell animals when they should be foraging, when they should be asleep, when it’s time to migrate and when it’s time to breed. Animals can tell all this from how many hours of daylight they experience, but the moon’s cycles also strongly influence their behaviour.
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- Written by: Kevin Fryling
Psychologists who study how people pick their spouses have turned their attention to another important relationship: choosing a canine companion.
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- Written by: Christine Calder
The Fourth of July can be a miserable day for dogs. The fireworks make scaredy-cats out of many canines.
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- Written by: April Reese
For almost as long as modern science has been around, the idea that animals can remember past experiences seemed so preposterous that few researchers bothered to study it.
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- Written by: Amy Quinton
New research examines risk factors for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, one of the deadliest tick-borne diseases in the Americas, in Mexicali, Mexico.
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- Written by: Elena Mannes
One day not long after Brio passed, I was driving on the highway, alone in the car. I’d been thinking of Brio and a few moments later heard clearly the sound of the metal tags on his collar clinking from the backseat, where he always rode. There was nothing else there that would have made that noise.
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- Written by: Alisson Clark
DNA tests show that over two-thirds of the breed labels on dogs in shelters or on pet rescue websites are wrong.
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- Written by: Niki J. Senior
No matter what we have experienced in our lives, tucked within each and every one of us is love. To me, healing is defined as a pure loving connection; it’s as simple as that. To demonstrate healing is to give love: unconditionally. Love is healing, healing is love.
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- Written by: Kristen Parker
There’s a correlation between different types of animal abuse and the perpetrator’s relationship to an animal and its owner, report researchers.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue
Bigger dogs, with larger brains, perform better than smaller pups on certain measures of intelligence, new research shows.
