By Laura Tangley
New York Times
If you're a mouse, an attack of the sniffles when you scamper by a bit of cat hair maybe a good thing – an early warning system allowing a quick get-away from the predator lurking under the bed.

In the natural world, of course, mice rarely, if ever, suffer from cat allergies. But laboratory mice specially bred to be allergic to cats have been cured by ...  read more »

By Clay Thompson
Why does my dog insist on eating his own poop? That's disgusting. Of course, it is only disgusting to us. The dog apparently enjoys it.
Officially this is known as coprophagia, and there could be any number of reasons for it. In the wild, canines will eat the intestines of their herbivore prey, which would include some excrement. It is thought that perhaps they get some vitami...  read more »