Do you think that shelter dogs pick the human with which they want to live? They certainly have a say in it because it is very easy to come across stories where timid shelter dogs have temporarily come out of their shells and approached an …
A veterinarian working in South Africa, Amy Jackson-Moss, posted on her Facebook page “Today I euthanized five dogs”. She said that it is not uncommon for her to kill healthy dogs. It is ‘killing’ and not euthanasia, by the way. She is trying to find …
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 …
Don’t judge a shelter dog by its cover. It is said that this unpopular shelter dog saved the life of the man who adopted her. Sadie, a six year old German shepherd had been ‘left on the shelf’ at the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge in New …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home predict that there will be an increase in the abandonment of unwanted dogs by 27% over the next five years based on data from previous recessions. They found that 31% of 2,000 dog and cat owners had …
About three years ago I wrote about the high suicide rate among animal rescue workers in America. Research indicated that it was the highest suicide rate of all American workers and equal to that of police officers and firefighters. An unhappy statistic because the people …
This moving video from a dog shelter, Takis Shelter in Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, tells me that even the most brutalised dogs can forgive and perhaps forget and respond well to love. Perhaps some dogs don’t recover. Perhaps they …
NEWS & VIEWS: The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating effect on the income of Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home. The pandemic has simply all but put a stop to their income stream. To compound matters they have not been able to take advantage of …
There is an argument that purebred, pedigree dogs are cared for to a higher standard than mongrels a.k.a. random bred dogs. I suppose the argument is that if a couple purchase a purebred dog they are more likely to care for that “possession” more precisely …
