If you walk dogs you're expected to pick up after them. Here's why what you do with that waste really does matter.

Source: By Rick Kimpel - Flickr: Parker the Marker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikimedia I’ve spent many years researching and thinking about the ethical contours of human-dog relationships, especially the ...

If you’ve noticed your dog eating poop, you wonder if there’s a nutritional deficiency or mental problem causing this behavior. You may find it upsetting, but it may just be normal canine nature. So ...

Dogs relieving themselves in nature are overfertilizing complex environments, a study suggested. The contamination can knock the environment out of balance, favoring one plant over others. Dog owners ...

Feces don’t get enough credit as food. The stinky stuff is not just an end product after food gets eaten, digested and finally discarded by animal guts. Poop can also be something nutritious, useful ...

DEAR JOAN: I’m writing in regard to your article about the lady who inquired about eliminating dog pee spots in her yard. Your first comment was the worst advice I would follow, saying a responsible ...

Your pet's poop and pee may give you clues to how many cancer-causing toxins have taken up residence in your home. "Our findings suggest that pets are coming into contact with aromatic amines that ...

It's 2014 and as usual my email inbox is loaded with interesting new stories about various aspects of animal behavior. One story that caught my eye is titled "Dogs might poop in line with the Earth's ...