It comes as no surprise to fellow pet parents that my cats are my life. They’re my best friends — and yet I know so little about them. I adopted one from a rescue as a kitten, and the other I found in ...

With DNA tests for humans such a hot trend — an estimated 26+ million people have done one like Ancestry or 23 and Me — it's about time our pets got in on the action, too. You may have seen ads on ...

Conservation scientists from UNSW Sydney have used DNA technology to identify feral cats as the primary predators responsible for the deaths of reintroduced native animals at two conservation sites in ...

It takes a pet owner to understand that our animals are not just animals, but beloved members of our family. We feed them, we bathe them, and we give them lots of love and attention. We worry about ...

Cat hair could be the purr-fect way to catch criminals, according to researchers from the University of Leicester. They have shown that a single cat hair contains DNA which could link a suspect and a ...

TThe University of Leicester announced today that British authorities used the nation's feline DNA database (Yes, the UK has one) to convict a man of manslaughter, according to the Associated Press.