The Center for the Environment and Welfare has set the cat among the pigeons by releasing an advertisement featuring Edwin Sayres, former chief executive officer of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and current CEW senior adviser. In the brief video, released on Wednesday, Sayres explains that national animal charities, such as the ASPCA and The Humane Society of the United States, are not affiliated with local pet shelters and those...
May is National Pet Month in the USA, a time to celebrate the love and companionship the furry creatures bring into human lives. It is also a time to spare a thought for pets still awaiting their forever homes. The USA is the world’s largest pet-owning country, with dogs being the most popular. Yet, the explosion in pet ownership has had an unfortunate side effect. As many as 3,000,000 dogs enter shelters every year, according...
Today is World Bee Day, a day to acknowledge the role that bees and other pollinators play in keeping the ecosystem humming and to focus on the importance of preserving honey bees and all other pollinators. It was on May 20 that pioneering beekeeper Anton Janša was born in Slovenia in 1734. Beekeeping is taken so seriously in the tiny Balkan republic that the country’s unofficial motto is “Land of the Good Beekeepers”. Slovenia produces...
A growing body of evidence suggests leprosy may have had zoonotic origins and spread to human beings from some species of animals. In The British Isles in mediæval times, the disease may have spread to humans from Eurasian red squirrels, a new study published in the journal Current Biology suggested, the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Hindu newspaper reported. The researchers studied human and red squirrel bones from archaeological sites in Winchester, southern England, and...
Less than a month after the Karnataka High Court quashed a central government circular seeking to prohibit the keeping, breeding, and sale of dog breeds considered “dangerous for human life”, the controversy over citizens keeping dogs as pets has erupted once again, following an incident in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, bordering the National Capital Territory of Delhi. In the incident, a CCTV grab of which has been doing the rounds of social media, a German Shepherd...
The first generic of veterinary drug pimobendan, used to manage congestive heart failure in dogs due to clinical myxomatous mitral valve disease or dilated cardiomyopathy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug is manufactured by Cronus Pharma Specialities India Pvt Ltd, the Hyderabad-based manufacturing subsidiary of privately held U.S. veterinary drug research company Cronus Pharma based in East Brunswick, New Jersey. The FDA on Thursday approved Pimomedin chewable tablets for...
Guy Whittal, the handsome and aggressive Zimbabwean middle-order batsman, nippy medium pace bowler and sharp fielder who played 46 Tests and 147 One-Day Internationals for his country between 1993 and 2003, has survived a leopard attack and is recuperating at Milton Parks Hospital in the capital Harare after undergoing emergency surgery, news reports said. Whittal, who runs his family’s game safari in the southeast of Zimbabwe, was reported to have been tracking the leopard, which...
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, have reported discovering the remains of a giant ancient snake in Gujarat, the Associated Press and CNN reported on Friday. The snake is believed to have been longer than a BEST double-decker bus operating in Bombay and may have weighed up to a tonne. Fragments of the backbone of the reptile, named Vasuki indicus after the snake king of Indian mythology, were found near a coal mine...
Films like Must Love Dogs (2005), Walking The Dog (2017), 23 Walks (2020) and Puppy Love (2023) all have one thing in common—the ‘meet cute’ of couples occurs while taking their pets out for a stroll and, slowly but surely, love blossoms. On April 11, celebrated as National Pet Day in the U.K., an online poll of 1,265 British dog owners confirmed that which many professional dog walkers already know: not only is having a...
While families in Indian cities struggle with finding reliable pet sitters and lodging solutions for their furry or feathered members when they want to travel, a report by The Dyrt, the USA’s top-ranked app for camping availability, photographs and reviews, suggests that many Americans simply take their pets along, particularly when they go camping. The Dyrt’s 2024 Camping Report revealed that 53.7% of campers brought their pooches to the campsite last year, the company said...
