When a dog shakes water off its fur, the action is not just a random flurry of movements — nor a deliberate effort to drench anyone standing nearby. This instinctive reflex is shared by many furry ...

Bonnie Kane spends her days ducking for cover from the wet dogs she washes and grooms at Royal Pet Beauty Shop, her Minneapolis business. After 30 years in the business she’s well aware of a dog’s ...

Ever been caught in the crossfire of a wet dog firing droplets of water away from their fur with a mad shake? Well, they can't help it. Scientists have discovered the underlying mechanism that drives ...

Dog gets wet. Dog shakes. Water comes flying off fur. It turns out that we didn't really know how such shakes worked until Andrew Dickerson, Zachary Mills, and David Hu of Georgia Tech began to figure ...

If want to know how fast a wet dog should shake in order to dry, you must watch this video. If you don’t want to, you must watch anyway: It’s full of cute furry animals shaking in slow motion. You can ...

High-speed video probes how mammals shake water from their fur. Armed with a little more than a hose and high-speed video equipment, researchers have cracked one of science’s wettest problems. As ...

Dogs are the most emotive of animals, often delighting their owners with a cheeky woof, a wag of the tail or the occasional bark. But pet parents may be at loss to explain why their pooch sometimes ...

Wet dogs and other wet animals shake their bodies in such a precise, effective manner that washing machine designers are taking notice, according to a new study that is the first to explain the ...

A wet dog can teach humans some new tricks. It may seem silly for scientists to study the way a dog shakes itself dry. But it could help engineers come up with automated-cleaning techniques to use in ...

Observations on our farm have almost convinced me that dogs deliberately choose to shake themselves dry beside a person. This seems to be the way that our kelpie sheepdogs get even with me after they ...