VUMC surgeon and LifeFlight nurse team to serve their community with amazing...
Dogs experience the world through their noses. With an average of 200 million scent receptors (compared to a measly 5 million in humans), dogs can pick up a scent from a mere handshake and follow...
View ArticleProfessor offers unsettling look at humanity with study of people and their dogs
Stories of relationships between dogs and people and actions surrounding those relationships are relayed by Colin Dayan in a new book calling for greater empathy and engagement across class and racial...
View ArticleSafe to snuggle with pets while home with a cold or flu, Vanderbilt...
When you are home sick, snuggling up with your dog or cat may feel like just what the doctor ordered. And a Vanderbilt infectious disease doctor, while stopping short of actually prescribing in-home...
View ArticleCinema and media arts professor’s Alaskan dog mushing film to be screened at...
Jonathan Rattner's passion for creating films that draw the audience into places often unseen or forgotten is reflected in "The Interior," to be screened at the Southern Festival of Books.
View ArticleSorry, Grumpy Cat—Study finds dogs are brainier than cats
The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has found that dogs possess significantly more of them than cats.
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