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Petco Love, Blue Buffalo promise $100,000 for cancer research

May 3, 20244 min

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...

by Staff Reporter

WaterWorld Wild & Wonderful

Jordan to host regional edition of World Ocean Summit

May 1, 20246 min

The Regional Ocean Summit, an addition to Economist Impact’s World Ocean Summit series, is set to take place from May 14 to May 16 in the Kingdom of Jordan at the Dead Sea. To be hosted near the Jordanian capital Amman under the patronage of King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein in cooperation with the Aqaba Marine Park initiative and sponsored by the Government of Jordan and the Jordan Tourism Board, the summit will provide...

by Staff Reporter

All About Pets Curious Tales

5 tips to help your pet weather the summer

May 1, 20246 min

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...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets Curious Tales

U.S. FDA clears generic from India to treat heart ailment in dogs

April 28, 20245 min

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...

by Staff Reporter

All About Pets

Value becoming focus of pet industry as inflation bites, says market study

April 28, 20245 min

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...

by Noorulain Sayed

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‘Legally Pirate’ Paul Watson and his strategy of aggressive non-violence

April 27, 202441 min

Captain Paul Watson has been a hero for marine life for many decades now. He was back in the news this month when he announced a mission to thwart Japan’s plan to resume whaling near the continent of Antarctica, and Operation Ice Storm, his plan to prevent the hunting of fin whales by an Icelandic multi-millionaire. One of the founding members and directors of Greenpeace, Watson left the organization in 1977 after a disagreement and...

by Sandy Pawpaw

Grounded Wild & Wonderful

Canine companion saves ex-cricketer Guy Whittal from wounded leopard

April 26, 20245 min

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...

by Staff Reporter

WaterWorld Wild & Wonderful

How the penguin got its name

April 26, 20243 min

World Penguin Day, which falls on April 25, is a day to recognize a unique set of inhabitants of the earth. There are 18 species of the flightless birds on the planet, every single one originating in the Southern Hemisphere. Adapted for a life in the ocean, the birds have counter-shaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most of them feed on krill, fish, squid, and other forms of sea life which they...

by Noorulain Sayed

All About Pets Curious Tales

Smart tracking devices for pets are a growing trend

April 25, 20245 min

Wearables are all the rage, with people using on-body devices such as smart watches to monitor everything from the number of steps they take in a day to their heart rate, stress level, blood pressure, hours slept, and a lot more, depending on how much one is willing to fork out. If this is what has humans hooked, how can their best friend be left behind? Pawfit, a division of the U.K.-based tracking innovations company...

by Staff Reporter

Animal Farm

Texas rancher files multi-billion-dollar class action lawsuit over Smokehouse Creek Fire

April 23, 20243 min

A Texas cattle rancher, whose ranch was destroyed by the Smokehouse Creek Fire, has filed a multi-billion-dollar class action lawsuit in a federal court in Amarillo, Texas. Potts Law Firm said in a press release that it filed the lawsuit on behalf of Donnie Parker, owner of Spring Creek Ranch in Skellytown, Texas, on Thursday in Amarillo division of the United States District Court for the Northern Division of Texas. The lawsuit arises out of...

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