Historians don’t know for sure when humans started keeping pets. Dogs were one of the first animals domesticated by humans and have been domesticated for some 10,000 years. According to ancient Egyptian law, taking the life of a greyhound warranted the same punishment as killing a man. As early as 3500 B.C., Egyptians were domesticating […]
Pawtrack is a company based in the UK, which has designed the world’s first GPS tracker specifically designed for cats. Small and weighing just 50g, the collar will be launched in July 2011. The tracker takes positions every ten minutes, and then downloads these positions to a central server, or on demand. These positions can […]
Guide dogs are assistance dogs trained to lead blind and vision impaired people around obstacles. They are led by their human owners and help them get where they want to go safely. Guide dogs are mentioned in literature as early as the sixteenth century but the first guide dog training schools were established in Germany […]
