dog senses

Ben removes a grass seed from a dog's ear

Vet removes object from dog’s ear with crocodile forceps (fee around £750)

What do you think Ben the Vet extracted from Frank’s ear? Well, it is something that is fairly common. And the same object can get into a cat’s ear and their eyes. It is a sharp grass seed. It looks like wheat. The barbs attached to the seed means that it can make its way …

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Newt-sniffing dogs save time, money and lives

In the UK, the great crested newt is protected under European law. The species is quite widespread across the UK. It is illegal to harm them or damage their habitat. This presents a problem to building developers in planning applications. They have to apply for a licence before they can catch the animals or handle …

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Dog demonstrates altruism, commonsense, rational thought and empathy in saving another dog from drowning

Dog demonstrates rational thought, commonsense, empathy and altruism in saving another dog from drowning

Sentience? Who questions that dogs are not sentient? Perhaps not many people but a lot of people don’t give it any thought or insufficient thought. A lot of people don’t know what the word means. And this little video reminds us that dogs are very sentient and intelligent. Sentience means that an animal feels emotion …

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Three great brothers

“She’s my heart. She fits right on it” – man talks about his dog

The words used by this great guy are so intense in describing his relationship with one of his two dogs. He’s talking about his deaf dog who looks after his other dog who is deaf and blind. It’s amazing. He uses sign language to communicate with them. He believes human body language is a more …

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Dog in cage in Vietnam waiting to be brutally slaughtered for their flesh to feed humans

Cultural sensitivities allow Vietnamese dog meat traders to barbarically kill dogs

Twitter understands me! Whenever I go to Twitter, they offer up to me images that incense me. They drive me to blog about them. To rage inside. To cry inside. To feel powerless. To feel impotent. I can’t stop this Vietnamese dog cruelty. Just writing that sentence risks a backlash from a Vietnamese person who’ll …

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Katie James right and Lucy Humphrey with Indie in the middle

Hand of GOD or hand of DOG? Woman’s Doberman finds one in 22 million match!

This is a good feel story about two women and a Doberman dog. It starts off, for me, with Lucy Humphrey, 44, who was looking for a kidney donor because her kidneys were failing as a result of suffering from lupus, an autoimmune disease. The required kidney donor would have to be a one in …

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Dog's nose

Infographic on how sensitive is a dog’s nose?

It is difficult for humans to imagine the olfactory experiences of a domestic dog as they walk around the park with their human caregiver. We are as distanced from imagining what that feels like as the dog is in imagining what it’s like for a human to do calculus! They are different worlds. And some …

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Rescue crews give a rescue dog killed when searching for survivors of Turkey's earthquakes a ceremonial send-off

Rescue team honour the life of a rescue dog killed when searching for survivors of Turkey’s earthquakes

Rescuers gave a rescue dog killed when searching for survivors of Turkey’s earthquakes a ceremonial sendoff. ‘Proteo’ was a rescue dog working with the Mexican Red Cross in searching for survivors after the Turkey and Syrian earthquakes. He died after helping to find two survivors. The cause of death has not been reported. Rescuers from …

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2 tips on preventing lost dogs and finding them

2 tips on a lost dog: prevention and reaction

This couple of tips in preventing losing your dog and then, when needs must, finding him or her, come from David Tennant writing in The Sunday Times today. I thought they were interesting tips because I’ve not seen them mentioned before and as you might expect there are probably tens of thousands of articles providing …

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Shelter dogs are normally restless and stressed for at least 12 days from entry at the shelter

Shelter dogs are generally still anxious after their first 12 days

A study from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine researched the extent of anxiety among dogs who been rescued and placed in animal shelters. They used night cameras and a small activity tracker on the dogs’ collars and cortisol measurements in the urine both of which are indicators of stress. They found that, in general, …

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