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Children Should Not Be Left Unsupervised With Dogs, Say Experts
February 23, 2007 — Children should not be left unsupervised to play with a dog, say experts in this week's British Medical Journal. Their advice is part of a review aimed at doctors who deal with dog ... > full story -
Bad To The Bone: Professor Advises Against Raw Meat Diet For Pets
February 18, 2007 — Feeding Fido that raw ground beef might not be the best idea. A University of Missouri-Columbia veterinary professor is warning owners about the dangers of raw meat diets for ... > full story -
Dogs May Be Responding To Psychological Seizures, Not Epilepsy Seizures
January 22, 2007 — Reports of dogs that can predict their owners' epilepsy seizures have been anecdotal and not objectively confirmed by doctors and researchers. Some people obtain service dogs trained specifically for ... > full story -
Dead Giveaway: Odors Released From Corpses Leave Chemical Fingerprint
January 18, 2007 — A tiny microbe may hold the key to simpler, lower-cost production of ethanol from biomass sources such as trees, grasses and cornstalks. Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are studying a ... > full story -
Lost Dogs Found More Often Than Lost Cats, Study Suggests
January 14, 2007 — A lost dog is more likely to be reunited with its owner than a lost cat, according to two new studies. In one city in southwestern Ohio, researchers found that 71 percent of lost dogs were found, ... > full story -
High Aflatoxin Levels In Wild Bird Feed
January 1, 2007 — Wild birdseed contained higher levels of aflatoxins and other mycotoxins than any other kind of pet food analyzed in studies done around the world, a new review of those studies reports in an article ... > full story -
Pet Owners Are Sick More Often And Exercise Less Than Other Working-Aged People, Study Finds
December 27, 2006 — A common perception is that pet owner is a young person who is full of action, exercises a lot, and actively plays with a pet, particularly with a dog. The reality is different, ... > full story -
Wolves Are Suffering Less From Inbreeding Than Expected
December 21, 2006 — Increasing levels of inbreeding is a threat against the viability of the Scandinavian wolf population. A study just coming out in the new journal PLoS ONE now demonstrates that inbreeding is not ... > full story -
Sniffers Show That Humans Can Track Scents, And That Two Nostrils Are Better Than One
December 19, 2006 — Do animals use their two nostrils to locate scents in the same way they use two ears to locate sounds? UC Berkeley neuroscientists Noam Sobel and Jess Porter set out to test that question, using ... > full story -
Infants Wheeze Less In Homes With Multiple Dogs
November 30, 2006 — Living in a home with multiple dogs may help reduce an infant's risk for developing wheezing in the first year of life, according to new research from the University of Cincinnati. The researchers, ... > full story
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