A few weeks ago, a family member joked that her millennial generation thinks of children as exotic pets. Both, as she saw it, are temperamental, expensive to acquire and maintain, insistent, and ...

This post is in response to The Psychology Behind Why We Love and Exploit Animals By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Along with my collaborator Kristof Dhont (University of Kent, UK), I was recently interviewed by ...

One of the worst things about being the parent of a small child—I’m talking 2 to 5ish here—is the television. Green… Advertisement ...

We love animals in Santa Barbara County, as evidenced by the array of rescue groups at work here. Sarah Aguilar, director of Santa Barbara County Animal Services, explains the role of her organization ...

The weather is getting warmer and warmer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and you're more likely to run into baby animals right now than any other time of year. Animal rescue organizations are at their ...

Identical twin sisters Trudy and Judy Milligan of Monroeville became artists at a very young age. They have fond memories of watching their older brother, David, sketch animals at the kitchen table.

“I think there’s a theological argument there that we’re doing what God designed us to do by taking care of animals.” Three quarters of pet-owning Christians (75%) in the US have dogs, while less than ...

Animals are able to show devotion and loyalty to good people. Many people believe that animals can also sense people with psychopathic tendencies. Is it possible? Why do we love animals? For their ...

Thankfully there’s been a growing sense of enlightenment over the years regarding the use of shelters that routinely kill the animals that they house. It’s a general acknowledgement that something ...