Like me, you might not have realised that porcupine quills can kill a dog. The problem is that dogs perhaps inquisitively go towards a porcupine or they treat the porcupine as a prey animal. A porcupine does not shoot the quills at an aggressive animal …
There appear to be two factors which has resulted in up to 20% of Britain’s 8 million dogs suffering from allergies and these are (1) failure to expose dogs as puppies to allergens because their lives are too sterile and (2) they live in a …
A study concluded that 66% owners of brachycephalic (round-headed short-muzzled) dogs would recommend their dog breed to others and 93% would adopt another despite the fact that these flat-faced breeds are inherently unhealthy. It seems that they don’t think they are unhealthy or have normalised …
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy is an advanced treatment that has until now only been available for humans in the UK but was used for the first time on a Gordon setter dog whose name is Ralph. Ralph started to have nosebleeds and it was discovered that …
Almost every week there is a story about a companion animal being locked in a car during hot weather. Although it doesn’t need to be that hot outside for the interior of a car to become very hot. The reason why the interior of cars …
This is a really nice photograph of a dog on a motorcycle in Vietnam wearing a coronavirus face covering as is his human companion and his friend. Vietnam has a very low infection and death rate from this virus so I guess these people are …
It is surprising, to me, that dog owners still leave their pets inside their cars with the windows closed on hot days. The amount of publicity that has been disseminated about dogs getting heatstroke and dying in hot cars is almost countless. It is discussed …
A study, published yesterday, in the journal Animals warns dog owners to be aware of canine heatstroke which has been highlighted due to the more frequent heat waves that the UK enjoys or suffers from, which in turn is arguably due to global warming. Perhaps …
Dogfishing is a new word for the new age. It refers to the practice of enticing a person, usually online, to buy a puppy which is sick and is therefore not the dog that the person thinks he/she is. It is basically a con. And …
