If you've ever known the love of an animal, you know the feeling. It's playing a game of fetch with your dog when you're happy or cuddling with your cat when you're sad. It's a wet nose nuzzling your ...

Animals don't read relationship advice or attend therapy sessions, but they understand things about love that many of us spend a lifetime struggling to grasp. They live with an emotional honesty and ...

Whether animals can experience romantic love is unknown. But there is some evidence that they are capable of experiencing the same range of emotions as we can. The brains of many mammals are ...

Why do some people love animals deeply while others remain emotionally distant? Two studies, one from the UK and one from the U.S., suggest it could be due to specific genes that influence our empathy ...

For the majority of animals, Valentine’s Day is no more than a day like any other (though some lucky cats might delight in the added presence of sniffable flowers and swatable heart-shaped boxes).

The Companion Animal Foundation’s “For the Love of Animals” summer program brings children onto its 18.5‑acre forest property in McKinleyville, where humane education is taught through hands-on care, ...

An enlightened dog named Buddha loves spending his days parading around a Colorado animal sanctuary with his new BFF: a 4-week-old lamb named Cheerio. The mixed-breed dog spent his first two years of ...