With the monsoon having finally set in, the scorching heat of the Indian summer, made worse by climate change and deforestation, is behind us, but pet owners face new challenges in keeping their wards safe and healthy. While the rains bring welcome relief for pets and their owners from the heat and dust, they also bring skin infections and moisture-induced diseases that compromise the animals’ health and hygiene. Here are seven simple tips to follow...
This little report is likely to bother those who hate stray dogs, keep complaining about their barking at odd hours, and want them removed, relocated, or destroyed. The barking of a stray dog in a deserted, unlit bylane in Vasai town, about 60 km from Bombay, well past midnight startled a would-be rapist long enough to enable his intended victim to escape from his grasp, according to the local police. The incident took place at...
Momentum for the abolition of the cruel so-called sport of greyhound racing seems to be building up, with the only surviving dog-racing track in Mexico set to be closed down. The Caliente, or ‘Hot’, racetrack in Tijuana city in Baja California province, bordering California in the USA, will host its final dog races this month. Thereafter, the 150 dogs remaining in its cages will have to be moved out by July 22, a message from...
Pet owners are divided into two categories: those who let their furry friends share their bed and those who don’t. Then there is the third, smaller category, of those who used to let their pets sleep in their bed once upon a time. While no research on this subject has yet been conducted in India, in Australia, the trend of pets sleeping on or in their owner’s bed is on the rise, according to a...
Royal Canin, a billion-dollar brand of pet care and human snacks conglomerate Mars, Inc, has named Heather Pasquale general manager of the U.S. veterinary business unit for Royal Canin North America, effective July 1. Pasquale succeeds Jean-Lin Pelatan, who was named general manager, global business-to-business platform, at the Royal Canin global headquarters in Aimargues, France. Pasquale, who will also serve as a member of the Royal Canin North America leadership team, will be responsible for...
Christine Ann Dorchak, Esq, is a woman on a mission to end the so-called sport of greyhound racing worldwide. Ms Dorchak is president and general counsel of GREY2K USA, an organization that was set up to campaign against dog racing and rescue the animals trapped in the cruel enterprise. Greyhound racing originated in the USA over a century ago and spread to different parts of the world, mostly white Anglophone countries. While supporters claim it...
The greyhound toll at racetracks in the U.K. rose last year for the first time since records began to be kept seven years ago, leading to renewed calls to ban the alleged sport, The Independent newspaper reported. A total of 109 dogs died at the U.K.’s 20 official tracks, the paper said, quoting statistics from the Greyhound Board of Great Britain. An additional 427, or 7.2% of the known racing population, died away from the...
With the population of pets and livestock around the world on the rise, the global veterinary diagnostics market is set to witness a boom, according to MarketsandMarkets, recognized by Forbes as one of America’s best management consulting firms. The size of the global market for veterinary diagnostics in revenue terms was estimated at $3.3 billion, or Rs27,390 crore, in 2023. It is poised to rise to $5.0 billion, or Rs41,500 crore, by 2029 at a...
A total of 459 animals were adopted and are now at what, hopefully, will be their forever homes at a two-day “mega pet adoption” event in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA, on Friday and Saturday, according to a report on FirstCoastNews.com. Eleven shelters collaborated for the event, bringing animals from across northeast Florida to the Petco Love ‘Mega Pet Adoption’ camp at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds, the first time in nearly five years the event was held....
Izzo, a therapy dog who worked with swimmers at the U.S. Olympic trials earlier this month and was named honorary member of the team heading to Paris for the Summer Olympics next month, has died, WTHR Channel 13, NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana, reported. The ten-and-a-half-year-old Labrador-husky mix was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer before the trials and given just a few weeks to live, according to The Washington Post. For the past eight years,...
