When I wrote about Maverick, our energetic two-year-old rescue cat, it hit me that someone else in our family has never really gotten her own spotlight. So let me introduce a dog that has changed our ...

My Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Dancer, always responded more reliably to hand signals than to voice commands. In fact, he was so attentive to my body movements that often my inadvertent small ...

Meet the Breeds, the American Kennel Club’s annual showcase of purebred dogs, took place over two eye-wateringly cold days in early February at the Javits Center, in Manhattan. About a hundred and ...