Just like people, dogs can prefer using their left paw or right paw more, and a study has provided a way to figure out if ...

Some tasks involved grabbing food in tricky situations. S. Isparta et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2026 under CC-BY-4.0 Are you a righty or a lefty? That trait—the preference of using one side of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study published Wednesday in Royal Society Open Science, researchers at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy ...

According to two studies, the answer is yes: Just like humans are usually right- or left-handed, cats and dogs are typically right pawed or left pawed. The first study, performed by researchers at ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. New research shows that, similar to ‘handedness’ in humans, cats’ ‘pawed ...

Research has found dogs who favour their left paw are more likely to show agression towards strangers than their right-pawed counterparts. Credit: Photo: ALAMY It might provide little comfort to ...

Some past research, for instance, suggests left-pawed dogs are more pessimistic than those that use their right paw more or have no preference, called ambilateral (like when humans are ambidextrous), ...