Dog Law Reporter

In a case arising in Texas in 2006, police, largely on the basis of evidence provided by a dog handler named Keith Pikett, concluded that Mi...

A recent California case demonstrates why scent lineups continue to be attacked as “junk science” by the defense bar, and why better procedu...

Animals have been shown to make sounds that are context specific, such as alerting other members of the group to a predator, even a specific...

Trailing dogs are generally thought to follow a path based on their smell of proteins and/or bacteria in desiccated epithelial cells that fl...

A study of the dog genome published in Nature , the pre-eminent publication in biology, reached some surprising and immediately controversia...

I have always favored mid-size to large dogs, finding small dogs too frequently to be obsessive barkers and growlers that drag their owners ...

When I began working on Service and Therapy Dogs in American Society , I was soon struck by the proliferation of service dog types, includi...