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Dogs can smell a variety of medical conditions

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Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure

Service dogs for people with epilepsy can tell when their owners are having a seizure, but we don’t know how. Now an experiment suggests they can smell seizures

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Puppies treated with CRISPR show improvement from muscular dystrophy

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Silhouette of a person lifting up their cat

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Gluten-free dogs? Pets deserve better than this evidence-free fad

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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The first Americans had pet dogs 1000 years earlier than thought

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A dog licking a person's hand

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Gross alert: You can get a urinary tract infection from your dog

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face

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Dog licking its lips

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Lab-grown pet food promises a wholesome vegan lifestyle for dogs

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Guide dogs sitting in a field

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Puppy smart toy reveals who'll be a good guide dog

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A dog wearing an electric shock collar

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Shock collars are a bad way to train dogs so let's ban them

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Oldest dog burial suggests prehistoric humans loved dogs as pets

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Oldest dog burial suggests prehistoric humans loved dogs as pets

A dog that was buried with its owners 14,000 years ago was chronically ill throughout its life, yet its owners repeatedly nursed it back to health – suggesting a deep bond of friendship

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Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too

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The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

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7 ways that your dog is all too human

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Ancient warriors killed and ate their dogs as rite of passage

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