It's natural to shed some layers in the summer when it's hot out, but imagine how your dog feels. With the summer upon us, bringing the heat and humidity with it at times, it may seem natural to grab ...

When a human being's body temperature builds up, either because he is in a hot environment or because he has been exercising or working a great deal, he begins to perspire. When people sweat, it is ...

What can we say about dogs that hasn’t already been said? They’ve evolved over thousands of years to be our greatest non-human companions. Throughout history, they’ve helped us to hunt, protected us ...

The VERIFY team went to experts to find out whether some claims about dogs in the heat are true. A dog can overheat, and suffer from dehydration or heatstroke just like a human can. These are some ...

The physiological processes associated with an acute psychological stress response produce changes in human breath and sweat that dogs can detect with an accuracy of 93.75%, according to a new study ...

Actually dogs do sweat, just only on the pads of their feet. That's not much surface area for cooling, hence panting as the primary cooling mechanism. A dog who is in heat exhaustion should be cooled ...

Dogs can smell the difference between stressed and relaxed humans from their sweat and breath alone. The finding could be used to inform training programs for service dogs.