Video of king cobra standing 6 feet tall (plus cobra info)
Some king cobra stuff for aficionados starting with a video of an impressive king cobra doing his defensive threat display in a video standing...
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Seals’ unprovoked attacks on Cape Town beachgoers are disturbing (video)
NEWS AND COMMENT-CAPE TOWN: As I understand this, this is a disturbing example of humankind’s effect on wild animal behaviour through their behaviour. That...
Raw fish health alert. Elderly and pregnant women at risk from listeria
The elderly and pregnant should not eat smoked salmon to avoid the risk of listeria poisoning. There is a tiny report in The Times...
Dogs jumping into ponds can be killed by blue-green algae
On my experience of walking through Richmond Park, near London, dogs are positively enthralled about jumping into ponds and then coming out and shaking...
Chocolate deliberately scattered in Curtis Fields, Dorset to harm dogs
NEWS AND COMMENT: It has been reported that chocolates and sweets are being dumped in Curtis Feels, Dorset, UK to harm dogs. Chocolate is...
Number of cannabis-intoxicated dogs in USA has increased by leaps and bounds
Calls from American dog owners to the ASPCA Poison Control Center in New York have risen from 1,436 in 2017 to almost 4,000 in...
13-year mass poisoning of over 1000 stray cats in Daejeon, South Korea
NEWS AND VIEWS: A South Korean citizen living in the country’s fifth largest metropolis, Daejeon, has allegedly poisoned stray cats for 13 years with...
Can marijuana kill dogs?
I was prompted to ask the question in the title because a person on Reddit.com had feverishly written, “HELP!! My dog ate a weed...
Tire preservative chemical responsible for killing returning salmon
Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, USA: Researchers have discovered that a formerly unknown chemical, 6PPD, in vehicle tires (tyres) which preserves them from ground level...
Chocolate poisons dogs because of theobromine
It’s all over the Internet so I am not going to go over old ground, however, the problem with dogs eating chocolate is that...
Neonicotinoids (a pesticide) makes bees sleep in the day
Neonicotinoids used in pesticides makes bees sleep in the day and it makes them go out at night when flowers are not open to...
Pet food kills at least 28 dogs in America
A pet food called Sportmix, manufactured by Midwestern Pet Foods Inc., has been implicated in the death of 28 dogs and illness in eight...
Poisoned ham kills many street cats in Kemer, Turkey
NEWS AND COMMENT: I had believed with caution that Turkey is a country of cat lovers, in general. But like every country even if...
Emma Duncan, Times author, nearly lost her puppy to Ibuprofen poisoning
People enquire whether Ibuprofen can poison dogs. It doesn’t take long to research that it does indeed poison dogs. In fact, it is a...
Slug pellets are a danger to cats, dogs and wildlife
Although, in the UK, the chemical metaldehyde has been banned from slug pellets from the Spring of 2020, because it is just too toxic...
