Maev, an Austin, Texas-based human-grade raw dog food brand, raised a $10 million Series A round led by VMG Partners, CEO Katie Spies tells Axios. Why it matters: Both M&A activity and investment in the pet space remain strong this year. Details: Though the round was oversubscribed at $20 million, […]

The last thing the writer and dog behavior expert Alexandra Horowitz needed in the spring of 2020 was a new puppy. Her family — three reasonable humans, two elderly dogs and one contented cat — was already “replete with animal fur,” she writes in “The Year of the Puppy,” her […]

It hardly seems like a dainty teacup poodle and a wrinkly Neapolitan mastiff could belong to the same species, much less the same subspecies. But both are Canis lupus familiaris, the beloved domestic dog. A member of the family Canidae — along with wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals — dogs […]