The American Humane Association sent me these pet safety tips, and now I’m passing them on to you. I hope you and your pets enjoy a happy and safe holiday season!
-MJ, aka Kitty Mowmow
Keeping pets away from poinsettias and chocolate is just the beginning. Avoid an unplanned trip to the animal hospital this holiday season [...]
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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, [...]
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A cat shot in the head with a crossbow arrow at a trailer park on Friday survived and returned home with only minor injuries. The arrow was removed from Stewie’s head after the cat was brought to the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Molly Fee, an intern at the school, said the arrow narrowly missed [...]
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Patrick Ohara came home from work recently to find his dog Tyko’s paws covered in glue. There was some glue in Akita’s hair and on her muzzle, and she was drinking more water than usual. But otherwise, the dog seemed normal.
Near Tyko, was a chewed 4-oz plastic bottle of Gorilla Glue. That was on a [...]
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Five pigs still on the loose after a livestock truck overturned earlier this month in Putnam County may pose a health risk to residents who attempt to eat the animals.
The pigs were given large doses of antibiotics to ward off sickness during their long haul across the county, Frank [...]
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CARLA the angelfish has a life-saving op — to cure a HERNIA.
The 10-in long creature was anaesthetised before vet Sue Thornton used a scalpel, needle and forceps to repair the hole.
Water was pumped through her body and over her gills so she could breathe during the 30-minute, [...]
Four-year-old Xiguang and three other elephants who the smugglers also captured were taken to an animal protection centre on China’s tropical island of Hainan to recover from their ordeals and overcome their heroin addictions.
While they are all fit again, after three years of [...]
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Monkeys taught to play a computer game were able to overcome wrist paralysis with an experimental device that might lead to new treatments for patients with stroke and spinal cord injury.
Remarkably, the monkeys regained use of paralyzed muscles by learning to control the activity of just a single brain cell.
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Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, with potential impacts to both human and wildlife health and global economies. Called The Deadly Dozen: Wildlife Diseases in the Age of Climate Change, the new report provides [...]
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EQUIPMENT to treat cancer patients at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne has been used after hours on pets for 17 years without the Victorian Government’s knowledge or approval.
After a Sunday newspaper reported that 22 animals had been treated at the hospital’s William Buckland Radiation Centre since 2005, it emerged that the practice had been going [...]
