America’s most popular gun dog, the Labrador retriever, is bred for the water, yet it’s also equally at home in the uplands and in the house. Labs make great all-purpose hunting and family dogs, and ...

Sandra Smieszek is working to change the lives of lab animals. Smieszek is a research scientist — working on whole-genome mapping to find treatments for gastroparesis, sleep disorders, and other ...

This summer, 4,000 beagles felt sun on their faces and grass under their paws for the first time after an abusive Virginia puppy mill that bred dogs for experiments was shut down by federal ...

Few people know the full story of how beagles have been—and continue to be—bred and used "in the name of research." 1 In her new book Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World ...

Violet the hound was kept caged in a dark basement laboratory in Washington DC for most of the first year of her life and never had the chance to play outside. As a puppy she was deliberately infected ...