and a lack of a formal dog breed census makes it impossible to meticulously rank the world’s rare dog breeds by population ...

Direct transmission from dogs to humans is extremely rare. Instead, experts fear the areas where dogs are exposed, such as walks through the woods, also expose the dogs’ owners, potentially ...

Blackwell said the plants they’re looking for are becoming increasingly rare. “Having the dogs helps us cover as much habitat as they can,” he said. “It‘s really valuable because we can ...