I have recently written about the training of dogs to detect the coronavirus. Some dogs have been supplied by the organisation Blind Dogs because they failed in that project but were obviously highly suitable to be retrained as coronavirus sniffer dogs. It is hoped that …
Hypnotherapy is being offered to Mexico’s health workers during the pandemic.
I have written extensively about keeping a first filial wild cat hybrid as a pet which you can read by clicking on this link. There is a modern trend in keeping what I call first filial i.e. first-generation (F1) wild cat or wild dog hybrids …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Some people need to put a break on their desire to adopt a dog companion at the moment. Like many other countries, since March, the UK has been in a lockdown or a series of mini-lockdowns. Peoples’ way of life has been …
Advance the video to 13 minutes 23 seconds and you will hear Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first Minister, say that the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) is nobody’s fault. Yes, she said that this worldwide pandemic is no one’s fault. I find that extraordinary and I am going …
Researchers are looking at how to limit infections in other species of animal in order to prevent a reservoir of the Covid-19 disease in the future.
COMMENT ON NEWS: Wuhan in China, the alleged source of the coronavirus is thriving and humming along nicely, we are told. Everything is pretty well back to normal and everywhere is packed out with people, as normal. Good for them because the rest of the …
Tortoises are being attacked by hungry rats in the UK. The rats are gnawing at the legs of pet tortoises because they have been deprived of food that would normally have been available as waste outside opened restaurants and cafés. We all know about the …
In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …
