Have you ever felt the impending doom of watching your dog find poop in the yard? It almost happens in slow motion: you see the dog spot the poop, they even look at you as if to say “Yes, I’m going to ...

Sometimes, dogs do strange things. Beyond rolling in mud puddles or biting themselves, your pet might drink from toilets or lick its butt. In other cases, it may eat its own poop or, worse, the poop ...

Dogs have many interesting habits, but one of the strangest for us humans to understand is why our pets eat poo. The term for this behaviour is 'coprophagia', and whilst it’s certainly not the most ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of Australia’s Kangaroo Island, ...