NEWS AND COMMENT: I’m astonished to learn that within a few months of being born a moose living in New England, USA, can acquire 50,000 ticks. The problem is that moose are inflexible creatures which means that they don’t have the ability to lick or …
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 …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Dan McClelland was the sheriff in Geauga County, Ohio, USA for 13 years and in the police force for 44 years. He loved his job and he was the owner of the world’s smallest police dog a Chihuahua-terrier called Midge. Midge was …
NEWS AND COMMENT: While Lady Gaga was abroad shooting a film, Gucci, directed by Ridley Scott, dog walker Ryan Fischer – taking her three French bulldogs for a walk in Hollywood – was shot in the chest with a handgun by a man of colour …
It is always useful to know the most pet-friendly states in the USA. This chart relates to 2020. Safewise.com produced the data in the image. They rank states based on the following information: percentage of pet-friendly apartments, pets-left in-car laws, pet population, veterinary reporting requirement …
It is perfectly legal to own or have custody of a raccoon in Texas. There is no law preventing a person from owning a raccoon as a pet in Texas as at the date of this article.
NEWS AND COMMENT – CALIFORNIA, USA: This is a slightly bizarre and disturbing story about captive monkeys. It is reported by The Guardian newspaper that twenty-seven monkeys were held at NASA’s Ames research Centre in California’s Silicon Valley. They were there because they were taken …
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is a domestic dispute with a difference because it’s taking place between two people who are homeless and who are clearly living on the streets of Los Angeles, USA. We are told that they have a dog and a cat and …
In the tweet on this page, The Paw Project is saying that the reason why kittens are being declawed at such a young age is to avoid owners being scratched but if they were trained in those early years beyond 8-months-of-age to minimise scratching it …
