In the middle ages, most dogs had jobs. In his book De Canibus, the 16th-century English physician and scholar John Caius described a hierarchy of dogs, which he classified first and foremost ...

My dogs Jasper and Holly are so well cared for that I often look at them and say, “I wish I were you”. Given lots of cuddles and treats, they spend all day curled up on my bed without a care in the ...