Spot Pet Insurance, a leading provider of dog and cat insurance plans in the USA, has made a donation to assist a mother dog and her adorable puppies at a Florida rescue ranch. The company said the contribution, ahead of Dog Mom Day in the USA, underscores its commitment to nurturing the health and happiness of pets everywhere and ensuring they receive the love and care they deserve. Nestled in the heart of Loxahatchee Groves,...
Enjoy going on a long drive with your pet dog? You are not alone. A survey of dog owners in the USA by The Harris Poll on behalf of an insurance company found that 53% would rather take a long road trip with their dog rather than with a human member of their family. Pet ownership has been on the rise worldwide in recent years with dogs continuing to be the most popular choice for...
Trust marketers to come up with ever newer ways to make you spend money you may not even have (remember those credit cards you keep using?). As if Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day and Mother’s Day were not enough, there is now National Dog Mom’s Day in the USA, which falls on the second Saturday of May, a day before the day dedicated to human mamas. And if it’s happening in the USA, can the rest...
The European Commission has allowed the use of liquid rosemary extract as an antioxidant feed additive for cats and dogs through Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1068. The submission leading to the authorization was initiated by Kemin Nutrisurance, pet food and rendering technologies business unit of Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that supplies over 500 speciality ingredients for human and animal health and nutrition, pet food, aquaculture, nutraceuticals, food technologies, crop technologies, and textile, biofuel...
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...
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...
Thanks in no small measure to human intervention in the form of ‘development’, as human beings like to characterize it, temperatures are soaring across the globe, more so in the Indian subcontinent, where the tropical summers take a toll of body and mind even at the best of times. This year, with the India Meteorological Department predicting more heat-wave days than normal, the situation is going from bad to worse. And suffering along with the...
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...
If you thought only pet owners in India were struggling to cope with constantly rising costs of pet food, care products, and services, think again. A survey report in the USA suggests the pet industry in the USA, currently the world’s largest, is at an inflection point due to macroeconomic and industry-specific factors, and providing value to pet owners has come to the fore as a competitive strategy. Packaged Facts, based in Rockville, Maryland, provides...
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...
