Dear Cathy, One of your readers wrote to you about having trouble with an aggressive male toy poodle after many years with a ...

Are Designer Dogs Healthier Than Their Purebred Parents? Recently a team of researchers from the Royal Veterinary College at Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom decided to test the claims of better ...

National Pet Day is a holiday many Americans can take part in. According to one industry estimate, 70% of U.S. households own a pet, with another estimate saying nearly 70 million households own at ...

In the pit of existential despair that was March, many of us spent considerable time panic-buying on the internet: flour, hand sanitizer, yeast, Scrabble, beard trimmers—and puppies. Just as with ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — More people have been buying so-called designer dogs over the last several years. Many of them are bought from commercial breeders supplied by puppy mills and backyard breeders.

Call them what you want: designer dogs, hybrids or mutts. With cute names like puggle and maltipoo and faces to match, designer dogs have become very popular among celebrities and dog lovers at large.

Luxury pet fashion used to feel like something reserved for celebrity pups and Instagram-famous dogs with better skincare ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

If they’re good enough for Jessica Simpson, they’re good enough for simpletons. Put another way: What’s the difference between a mutt and a so-called designer dog? About a thousand bucks, apparently.