Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you found yourself talking to your pets? And not in a high-pitched voice, but as if they were a human roommate or something?

In modern society, pets do not just live in the house as animals. Instead, for many people, pets have become part of the family and emotional support. In some cases, pets have become a replacement for ...

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But ...