Insights, tips, and stories to help you better understand and communicate with your dog.
Forbes Advisor's analysis of over 670,000 dogs, published June 10, 2026, put the French Bulldog at the top of the breed popularity rankings. Again. For owners who love the breed, that's probably unsurprising. For vets, it's the kind of statistic that lands with a quiet grimace.
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The Dog Aging Project published findings on June 8, 2026, through Texas A&M, showing that the metabolic signals tied to lifespan are shared between dogs and humans. Not similar. Shared. The same biological markers that predict healthy aging in people show up in dogs too.
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Hunter-gatherers were feeding and burying dogs at least 15,000 years ago, according to ancient DNA analysis published in early June 2026. That predates farming. It predates settled villages. It means the dog-human relationship is older than almost every other thing we think of as civilisation.
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On May 28, 2026, a major raw dog food recall was expanded to cover more than 180 lots produced across a five-month window. If you feed your dog a raw diet, this is worth stopping for.
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The 2021 Los Angeles leptospirosis outbreak didn't start with a contaminated water source or a wildlife encounter. It spread through dog daycare facilities, dog to dog, and by the time researchers at UC Davis finished analysing it, over 200 dogs had been infected.
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Researchers at the University of Nebraska Omaha are currently measuring stress hormones locked inside dog hair. Not blood. Not saliva. Hair, which captures a chemical record of what a dog's body has been doing for weeks or months at a time, rather than just the moment of the test.
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The British Veterinary Association put out an urgent warning on May 21st, and if you're planning to take your dog out this Bank Holiday weekend, it's worth reading before you do anything else.
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A peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science on May 18, 2026 showed that Piclidenoson, an oral drug originally developed for human inflammatory conditions, significantly reduced pain and improved mobility in dogs with osteoarthritis. That's worth paying attention to, because oral disease-modifying treatments for canine arthritis have been thin on the ground.
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Data published yesterday from Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences put a number on something a lot of dog owners suspect but rarely say out loud: 84% of dogs show measurable signs of fear and anxiety. That figure comes from a study of over 43,000 dogs. It's not a small sample with a noisy result. It's a finding large enough to be uncomfortable.
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Zoetis, the company behind some of the most widely used veterinary medicines in the world, cut its financial forecast on May 8th. The reason given was straightforward: American pet owners are going to the vet less. Spending is down. Visits are down.
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On May 6, 2026, the FDA approved tasipimidine oral solution, sold under the name Tessie, making it the first medication ever cleared to treat two of the most common fear-based conditions in dogs at once: noise aversion and separation anxiety.
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The agreement was finalised on 1 May 2026. Animal rights groups secured a deal with a biomedical testing facility in the United States to release approximately 1,500 beagles from research use. No more procedures. No more cages. Just a very large number of dogs who have never lived in a house, never walked on grass, and have no idea what any of that means.
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