Happy Wednesday, friends! All ready for the 4th of July festivities? There's still time to get plans in place — here's a great place to start. Sometimes, we all just need a hug and a friendly face.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on hugs and other comforting behavior that occurs in the animal world. Opinion: Hugging is common and meaningful in the animal kingdom Animals are ... candid. It's part of ...

"Cows are very relaxed animals, they don't fight, they don't get in trouble," one farm owner said Move over goat yoga — there’s a new animal wellness trend emerging from the Netherlands that may be ...

In the increasingly hectic and stressful year of 2020, people are seeking calm wherever they can find it — from frolicking through the fields to adopting plants. But now there’s another natural way to ...

Therapy animals are not a new concept, but in a world where mental health is being tested by an ongoing pandemic, people are searching for comfort it what might seem like unusual places. A practice ...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Samson Schulman, a second-year graduate student, is seeing his therapist for a second time. He recently went through a break-up. He's feeling depressed, and he has some anxiety ...

Animals are ... candid. It's part of why we love them. If they're hungry, they'll roar, growl or bark. If they itch, even in a most intimate and inaccessible spot, they'll scratch. We have a dog who ...