NEWS AND COMMENT: It has been reported that chocolates and sweets are being dumped in Curtis Feels, Dorset, UK to harm dogs. Chocolate is toxic to dogs. The way that the chocolate and sweets have been dumped clearly indicates that it has been done deliberately. …
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 2021. The reason? Edible marijuana products left lying around the home which are attractive to dogs. And there are far more …
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 an assessed tally of 1000 cats killed! That report comes from The Korean Times and it makes you wonder what the …
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 muffin.” The person’s dog became sleepy and he could not stand. He vomited twice and puked a huge hairball the second …
Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, USA: Researchers have discovered that a formerly unknown chemical, 6PPD, in vehicle tires (tyres) which preserves them from ground level ozone, ends up killing salmon in streams. Bits if tire are thrown off tires due to wear and tear. Rain water …
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 they cannot metabolise theobromine and caffeine both of which are in chocolate. Interestingly theobromine is toxic to humans as well but …
Neonicotinoids used in pesticides makes bees sleep in the day and it makes them go out at night when flowers are not open to be pollinated. Bees are a major and critical pollinator. The numbers have declined significantly. The reason? Habitat loss, climate change, greater …
A pet food called Sportmix, manufactured by Midwestern Pet Foods Inc., has been implicated in the death of 28 dogs and illness in eight more in the USA. The FDA provides a full report and in essence they say that the deaths have been caused …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I had believed with caution that Turkey is a country of cat lovers, in general. But like every country even if you have many people who like cats there’s always somebody who hates them. In this instance there is a cat poisoner …
