Science Daily reports that a recent study shows that even healthy cats exhibit symptoms of illness when their routine is changed. The study drastically changed the routines of both healthy cats and cats with feline interstitial cystitis, a chronic illness, and found that all the cats exhibited the same symptoms of sickness behaviors, and just […]
All unborn mammalian babies have a large shunt, a blood vessel that carries blood around the liver instead of through it to the heart. This shunt, called the ductus venous should close down just before or after birth. Sometimes it does not stop working and is a defect known as an intrahepatic (hepatic referring to […]
To your dog, ear massages are right at the top of good things along with belly rubs. Ever wonder why your dog swoons when you gently rub his/her ears? The ears of a dog are like nerve central with networks branching out to all parts of the body. These nerves send messages to the hypothalamus […]
