With the help of Best Friends Animal Society, West Valley City, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, passed a council resolution in February to go no-kill. Along with city officials, Best Friends has worked out a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that has passed the council as of June 5th 2012. The mayor of Taylorsville, […]
The gene responsible for dwarfism in Miniature Horses is called the aggrecan gene (ACAN). DNA testing for 4 mutations of the gene is being offered at the University of Kentucky Animal Testing and Research Laboratory. The mutations were found by a PhD student, John Eberth, at the UK Gluck Equine Research Center. John is studying […]
Amazingly cats can hear the tiniest sound and gauge direction and distance from the sound. A cat’s hearing is about 5 times greater than a human’s, particularly with high-pitched sounds. Dogs have more pitch range, but otherwise their hearing abilities only about one-third that of cats. According to scientists, cats can actually sense earthquakes even […]
