A letter to The Times highlights the dangers of chewing gum to dogs. It is likely that most people are unaware of the hazard. Christine Grisdale, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, writes to tell us that discarded sugar-free chewing gum is clearly unsightly but also …
In the UK, after much debate, the citizens are returning to normal more or less after 18 months of Covid social distancing. All the rules about social distancing are coming to an end. Although people have been breaking the rules extensively, in my opinion, in …
NEWS AND COMMENT: It seems to me that the US authorities can’t trust many of the countries who export dogs to the US because many of the imported dogs are rejected as the paperwork has been completed fraudulently in that it claims that the dogs …
In the interests of dog and animal welfare, it is time that humankind stopped comparing the ill-treatment of people with the typical treatment of dogs. This is what the phrase “to be treated worse than the dog” means. It implies, very strongly, that dogs are …
The flat-faced dog breeds such as pugs and bulldogs are known to have health issues and The Telegraph reports that they struggle to reach old age which got me thinking about the average lifespan of the dog breeds, which is illustrated in the chart below. …
COMMENT: Prince Andrew bought for his mother a couple of dorgis, which are dachshund-corgi hybrids. Sadly, one of them, Fergus, died at five months old. It is reported that the Queen is devastated. Personally, Prince Andrew made a mistake in gifting two dogs to his …
I was prompted to ask the question in the title because a person on Reddit.com had feverishly written, “HELP!! My dog ate a weed muffin.” The person’s dog became sleepy and he could not stand. He vomited twice and puked a huge hairball the second …
There are 2 main reasons why there are so many stray dogs in India. One major factor is that there is a lot of garbage lying around in India which feeds stray dogs. This points to a broken municipal system for collecting garbage. Another reason …
This is Poppy a goldendoodle before and after her haircut. Quite a transformation I think you will agree. In fact she looks like a different dog entirely. Perhaps the barber went a bit too far. I’m sure some people would say that she looks a …
