The Sunday Times reports on a new test which provides dog owners with an early warning that their dog has cancer. Shockingly, it’s a disease that kills about half of dogs over the age of 10 in the UK. This new diagnostic test will be …
News and comment: you may have heard about the alleged surge in bedbug infestations in the UK ostensibly imported from France but I don’t think this is correct because my research indicates that there has been a steady increase in bedbug infestations in the UK …
The Times headline is “First Dog hounded out of White House”. So, it has finally happened. Commander has been banished from the White House at last after biting at least 11 people. The place simply wasn’t right for him. There were suggestions that he should …
President Biden likes German Shepherd dogs. He has two. Major is a rescue dog who was removed from the White House because he was biting too many people. And Commander, the other, younger, German Shepherd has reportedly delivered 11 bites to various White House staff. …
In the UK (and elsewhere?) enterprises training dogs to sniff for truffles are booming. Yes, truffle hunting is a booming business. And what’s happening is this: businesses engaged in training dogs to sniff out truffles are oversubscribed as it has become very popular because the …
Brucella canis is a zoonosis. It is a zoonotic disease. It is a bacterial infection which can be transferred from animal to person. It has happened for the first time when Wendy Hayes contracted the disease from a rescue dog she was fostering in 2022. …
The video shows you what happened. The news media are saying that a passing motorist saw what was going on: a big dog attacking a man with his small dog and ‘rammed’ the attacking dog with his car as he mounted the pavement. This is …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: This is a follow-up to the original American XL bully story which perhaps the world knows about now namely that the UK government is going to ban this type of dog (it is not a registered breed) following far too many attacks, …
