pets today are treated like family. They've their own beds, clothes, birthday celebration and even social media accounts. While this shows affection and care, an important question arises are we ...

Pets are more popular than ever. Roughly two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56% in 1988, according to the American Pet Products Association, and Americans spent $136.8 billion ...

Almost two-thirds (62%) of pet owners believe that they share the same love language with their pet. Shutterstock The way to your pet’s heart is not only through toys and treats — half of pet parents ...

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past. Stump-tailed macaques grooming a dog in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. This article is more than 2 years old. Pets can teach us a lot ...

Pets are considered to be part of the family for many households in the U.S., with around 66% having a “fur-baby” of some kind. Many studies have shown that owning a pet can be incredibly beneficial ...

They were extraordinary kittens with a hardscrabble beginning. Stuffed into a cardboard box with their three siblings and thrown into a junkyard on a hot summer day, the three-week-old kittens were ...