Here is an infographic on the laws on hunting dingoes in Australia with some notes below. By its nature is a strict summary. Please check with the authorities but the general drift is that dingoes are pests in most of Australia and can be shot …
The French phrase “va dans ta niche” translates to “go in your kennel” or “go to your place”. It is an idiomatic expression used to tell someone to go away or leave, often in a dismissive or authoritative way. The phrase implies that the person …
It seems that we are arguably a little sexist when we meet someone in the park who is taking their dog for a walk. Dogs are great for meeting strangers and starting a little chat. We almost invariably admire the dog and ask, “What breed …
The Conversation (a website) commissioned a study on Australia’s famous dingo and whether this feted animal was domesticated and became wild or has always been a wild dog and how the aboriginal people of Australia (Australia’s First Peoples) interacted with the it. The study is …
The dog-eaten remains in the form of a torn fragment of John Steinbeck’s handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men is to be sold at auction with an estimate sale price of $3000 at Bonhams auction house. The destruction occurred 77 years ago. Imagine how …
The infographic from the No Kill Advocacy Center spells out the obligations of California’s municipal shelters when there is a request from an animal adoption or rescue organization to take a dog or dogs. There are only three very specific circumstances under which the municipal …
Brucella canis is a zoonosis. It is a zoonotic disease. It is a bacterial infection which can be transferred from animal to person. It has happened for the first time when Wendy Hayes contracted the disease from a rescue dog she was fostering in 2022. …
STUDY REPORT PLUS COMMENT: The infantile, brachycephalic French Bulldog ‘suffers’ from a ‘condition’ called paedomorphism which means to behave like an infant. And these dogs give their owners this impression because they are less good at solving problems. They would rather look up at their …
It is currently all over the news after some killings by American bully XL dogs of people in the UK and other countries. Bred from fighting stock and therefore inherits aggressive tendencies One supporter of a ban of the “breed” says that this type of …
