In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

It’s no surprise that man’s best friend has several features in the myths and folklore that lace through history. We see gods of revenance, creatures that embody both loyalty and rage, and the many ...

From folktales to epics dogs appear again and again beside humanity. Long before modern science explained canine behaviour or psychology measured emotional bonds, ancient cultures were already telling ...