If you have a pet at home, particularly a dog or cat, you should make it a practice to keep your kitchen door shut when you are not in the kitchen. If you like in a house with so-called modern architecture, where the kitchen is little more than an open-access nook, you may need to install barriers to restrict the access. The reason is not just that your pets may want to explore the kitchen...
U.S.-based nonprofit organization Petco Love and pet food company Blue Buffalo have donated a matching gift of $100,000 to the Morris Animal Foundation’s Stop Cancer Furever campaign to support the foundation’s commitment to advance science to save animals. The foundation’s annual campaign supports critical animal cancer research, including studies to develop new diagnostic tests and treatments. Petco Love and Blue Buffalo’s donation will match donor gifts up to $100,000 during the campaign, which began on...
A 34-year-old man in Colorado, USA, died after being bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters, BBC reported. The venomous reptiles are known to bite, but their bite does not usually kill a human being. An expert told CBS News that the victim “may have suffered an allergic reaction.” The last human death recorded because of a Gila monster bite was back in 1930. That incident was “not even a medical journal case”,...
