Pets and children’s happiness is a growing topic in child development. Discover how pets influence emotional development and ...

On a wall at Trader Joe’s are numerous drawings of shelter animals, each with their own biography, each an attempt to help those animals find homes. They are the result of Kids, Cats and K9s, a ...

Did you know that teaching children empathy skills early in life can increase their confidence and help them better handle stressful situations? Empathy is critical to success throughout life and is a ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — Tom the turkey struts across a quiet pasture in Winston‑Salem, surrounded by an unlikely group of coworkers, Sarah and Rebecca, two sheep, Lucy, a Burmese mountain dog, ...

Cats and dogs. Horses and cows. Chickens and sheep. Whatever kind of pet or livestock it was, caring for our animals was my favorite part of farm life when I was growing up. I enjoyed feeding them, ...

Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

The amount of interest in the nature of nonhuman animal (animal) minds and what's in them seems to grow daily. In keeping with this burgeoning interest, today was a very good day for writing about two ...

"Animal Farm" is a movie full of songs and talking critters but also tackles heady themes from George Orwell's novella. Is it OK for little kids?