NEWS AND COMMENT: The reporting is skimpy. However, it’s clear that dogs are picking up a bug which causes gastroenteritis when they are taken for a walk on Blackpool beach. This is a famous beach in the UK. Blackpool is a well-known tourist attraction, albeit …
This is not a criticism of hedgehogs. We all adore them. And this news shouldn’t change our attitude towards them in any way. It’s a bit of science which tells us that a bacterium, MRSA (Staphylococcus aureus), evolved on the skin of hedgehogs about 200 …
Raw dogfood is being criticised and it has been criticised in the past. The same goes for raw cat food. But advocates of home-made raw foods speak highly of it in terms of animal welfare and health. The problem is that it harbours pathogens which …
