Pet owners love naming their dogs after pop culture icons Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and wildlife. Get ready to ...

Max is the most popular name for male dogs this year and Bella is the most popular for female dogs, according to Rover.com’s sixth annual survey of dog names. The online network of pet sitters and dog ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Voting is a right reserved for humans, but dogs can still get in on the fun. As polls opened for the ...

Dogs are like people. But they are not people. This, you see, is why it's so great when there are dogs in offices. And why it's so funny to give them names traditionally assigned to humans. Because ...

Roll over Spot, Buddy and Rover. Say hello to Cardi B, Harry and Groot! These are just some of 2018's popular names for dogs. Kate Jaffe is a dog name curator for Rover, the dog and cat service ...

Researchers at the DogStudies lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have shown that dogs possess some "metacognitive" abilities—specifically, they are aware of when they do ...

The dog park is full of cute pups and unique names. A primped and polished Bichon Frise could be called Frank. And so could a shaggy, happy go lucky Golden Retriever. What you hear being yelled out ...