The word hunting evokes many differing emotions from both its supporters and animal welfare campaigners. For years, these feelings have merged to create complicated, difficult and uncompromising stances on either side of the spectrum. When asking friends what they thought about the word in a general sense, I heard phrases […]

It’s common sense to assume that if a person were to sit in an empty room all day with nothing to do, they would be incredibly bored. But is the same true of our pets? A recent study, published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, suggests that it is, and […]