Having A Dog Improves Children’s Health – Study
A study from Finland confirms that children growing up in homes with a dog are less prone to infections, including ear infections and respiratory infections: ‘Overall, babies in homes with cats or dogs...
View ArticleLife Saving Dogs – In Ways You Didn’t Imagine
From the humble seeing eye dog the role of dogs in healthcare has exploded to new unexpected areas including seizure alert and cancer detection: ‘Dogs can be trained to detect low blood sugar levels in...
View ArticleProof That Having A Dog Makes You Healthier. Or Happier. Or Both.
A research study has shown that young children in families with dogs are healthier and have fewer infections: ‘Children with a household pet, especially a dog, were considered healthier overall, had...
View ArticleCould Dogs Sniff Out Cancer?
A woman in the UK was diagnosed with breast cancer after persistent demands to get tested. Demands made by … her dog: ‘Tests found Penny had been smelling and nuzzling at the area where an aggressive...
View ArticleWhy Pets Are Autistic Kids’ Best Friends
Research demonstrates that spending time with pets can help autistic children develop social skills: ‘The study, from French researchers, is the first strong scientific evidence that animals may help...
View ArticleFor The Kitty With Everything – The Cat Couch
Ok, you could go down to your local pet shop and get yourself one of those ugly cat scratch poles for $40 or so. Boring! How about a cat couch with integrated play tunnel? The tunnel made up of PVC
View ArticleHow To Educate Our Neighbours About Not Eating Dogs
When you think about backward, uneducated nations South Korea is not on the list. And yet the traditional medicinal diet encourages Koreans to eat dog meat for good health. Now the animal rights groups...
View ArticleDogs Understand Humans Better Then Humans
We have always known this but now it’s official: dogs empathize with people more then any other animal, including people: “During one experimental condition, the people hummed in a weird way. For that...
View ArticleShould Queen Elisabeth Get Another Dog?
It has been announced that the Queen’s oldest dog Monty has died. The cause of the death has not been disclosed. Already animal welafer and special interest groups are trying to get mileage of the...
View ArticleA ‘Service Dog’ Is… What Exactly?
It used to be simple. Service dogs helped blind people – to find their way around. Then came service dogs for deaf people – to alert them to noises. Then came service dogs for epilepsy, diabetes, even...
View ArticleCould Cats Hold The Key To Alzheimers Cure?
Scientists have discovered Alsheimers-like disease in big cats, which could hold the secret to finding the cure in humans: “In the study, published in the science journal Plos One, researchers examined...
View Article‘The Dog’– Our Living Mirror
John Humans, NineMSN writer, is concerned that dogs are nothing more then good imitators about to steal our sympathy and all the material goodies that come with it: “…People get something out of these...
View ArticleCould Dogs Sniff Out Cancer?
A woman in the UK was diagnosed with breast cancer after persistent demands to get tested. Demands made by … her dog: ‘Tests found Penny had been smelling and nuzzling at the area where an aggressive...
View ArticleFor The Kitty With Everything – The Cat Couch
Ok, you could go down to your local pet shop and get yourself one of those ugly cat scratch poles for $40 or so. Boring! How about a cat couch with integrated play tunnel? The tunnel made up of PVC
View Article‘The Dog’– Our Living Mirror
John Humans, NineMSN writer, is concerned that dogs are nothing more then good imitators about to steal our sympathy and all the material goodies that come with it: “…People get something out of these...
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