OCTOBER National Animal Safety and Protection Month Adopt a Dog Month – sponsored by the American Humane Association Adopt a Shelter Dog Month – sponsored by the ASPCA National Pet Wellness Month – encouraging owners to be aware of their pet’s health and make an appointment with the vet. Fire Pup Day – Fire pups […]
Pollution affects not only humans. Animals of all kinds are subject to the same ills. Frogs are extremely sensitive to environmental changes and in Asia, species are becoming extinct before they are even identified. Other contributing factors to the problem of worldwide extinction of many amphibians are disease and habitat encroachment by humans. All animal […]
Spanish scientists at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain, using gene therapy, have been successful in treating type one diabetes in dogs. Most dogs with diabetes have type 1 while cats with the disease have type 2. After one session and 4 years later, the dogs have remained symptom-free with no recurrence of the […]
