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Bangalore’s rules for pets, strays curb RWA high-handedness

July 26, 20245 min

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, or Greater Bangalore Municipal Corporation, has issued guidelines for the care of pets and stray animals, finally ending the abuse of position and power by the tinpot dictators of residents’ welfare associations, commonly referred to as RWAs, local newspapers reported. Under the guidelines, these ‘welfare’ associations, usually dominated by people who are derisively referred to by progressive citizens and younger generations as WhatsApp uncles, have been told to ensure that...

by Staff Reporter

Grounded Wild & Wonderful

Panda pair to make public debut at San Diego Zoo on Aug 8

July 26, 20245 min

The panda pair that arrived at the San Diego Zoo in California, USA, from China earlier this summer will make their eagerly awaited public debut on August 8, the zoo has announced. The two are the first pandas to enter the USA in 21 years. “We are delighted to introduce Yun Chuan [pronounced yoon chu-an] and Xin Bao [pronounced sing bao] to our San Diego Zoo community,” said Paul Baribault, president and chief executive officer...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets Columns

Don’t leave pets behind, says PETA, but do policymakers care?

July 26, 20248 min

As Typhoon Carina swept across the Philippine Sea towards Taiwan and the Chinese coast earlier this week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known by its acronym PETA, issued an urgent appeal to people in the countries in the storm’s path not to leave their pets behind if they needed to evacuate because of flooding or landslides. The appeal was a fresh reminder of the lack of consideration for pets and, indeed, animals...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets

Osteoarthritis: Why you should monitor your pet closely

July 23, 20248 min

Keeping a pet is a huge responsibility, bigger at times than nurturing a child. The child will tell you what is bothering it, where it hurts, what it wants to do or doesn’t want to do, but a pet simply can’t. That is why it is imperative for the owner or caretaker to be watchful for any sign of distress or discomfort in the animal. One such ailment that is becoming fairly common in pets...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets Curious Tales

Pets may know when it’s time to say goodbye, says scientist

July 20, 20245 min

Do animals know when they are about to die, and say a final goodbye to their owners or families? Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a researcher in the U.K. who is considered a ‘heretic’—curiously, a term that originated in religion—by the “scientific” community, certainly seems to think so. Sheldrake, who worked at an agricultural institute near Hyderabad, India, 50 years ago, developing new varieties and cropping systems in chickpeas, or chana, says he has spent almost a...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets Curious Tales

Your pet is at far greater risk from plastic than you think

July 19, 202416 min

A new report released by Earthday.org, a leader in advocacy for Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22 since 1970, reveals that the exposure of pets to harmful plastics is much higher than many pet owners may have imagined. The report, “Pets Vs. Plastics”, explores the exposure of pets to microplastics and toxic plastic chemicals and follows Earthday.org’s s recent “Babies Vs. Plastics” report, the organization said in a press release. “Pet owners should...

by Sandy Pawpaw

Curious Tales

Welfare group exposes travel giant’s complicity in animal cruelty

July 17, 20247 min

A new report from World Animal Protection, a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation, has exposed the tourism industry’s abusive treatment of animals and accused a popular travel company of being a key partner in this abuse. The report, entitled “Making Memories Misery: How GetYourGuide Profits from Animal Cruelty”, profiles some of the worst animal tourism operators that partnered with it, where captive animals endure abusive training, get inadequate food and...

by Sandy Pawpaw

All About Pets

Seven tips to keep your pets safe and healthy in the rainy season

July 13, 20245 min

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...

by Staff Reporter

All About Pets

Latin America’s last greyhound racing track shuts this month

July 10, 20243 min

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...

by Staff Reporter

Flying Club Wild & Wonderful

20 critically endangered vultures bred in captivity ready for release in tiger reserves

July 9, 20247 min

Twenty critically endangered vultures—10 long-billed, the rest white-rumped—bred in captivity at a conservation facility in Haryana are set to be released into the wild at two tiger reserves in Maharashtra, the website News18.com reported. “This is the first such release of captive-bred, critically endangered vultures in Maharashtra,” the report quoted Kishor Rithe, director, Bombay Natural History Society, as saying. “We brought 20 birds from the Vulture Conservation Breeding and Research Centre at Pinjore, Haryana, early...

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