Dogs and Dames

Grabbed from link Filed under: Pet Health tom.arthur, Flickr I live in North Texas where 108-degree weather has everyone hot under the collar. Just imagine how pets feel with a fur coat. Cats and dogs risk sunburn, pad burns and life-threatening heat stroke without proper precautions. These tips can help you prevent problems, or even [...]

Grabbed from link Filed under: Pet Health Pet surgery. clstal, Flickr Every veterinarian offers basic care such as vaccinations, neuter surgery, and parasite control. But today, just as in human medicine, veterinary specialties offer modern techniques that go “beyond the basics.” Here are just a few “wow” techniques now available to our cats and dogs. [...]

Grabbed from link Filed under: Dogs, Cats Andreas-photography, Flickr The eyes of cats and dogs are quite similar to our own, but how are they different? The cat has the largest eyes of any meat eater; if our own eyes were proportionally the same, human eyes would be eight inches across. But it goes beyond [...]

Grabbed from link Filed under: Pet Health bayasaa, Flickr Fireworks from July 4th celebration may be festive to you, but can turn your pets into nervous wrecks. More cats and dogs–and even livestock like horses–become lost on this day than any other when pets panic, go through windows, break tethers and leap fences. Even safely [...]

Grabbed from link Filed under: Funny Animal Videos Hyenas have never been the most popular of animals. Often thought of as cackling, cowardly scavengers, they’re usually depicted as sly and unsavory villains in mythology and folklore. Any kid who’s seen “The Lion Kid” couldn’t be blamed for assuming that hyenas are nasty and dangerous animals [...]

Grabbed from link U.K. college student Nathan Cooper suffers from epilepsy, but is lucky enough to have a lifesaving tabby keeping him out of harm’s way. The cat, Lilly, is only 14-months old, but already she has saved Cooper’s life on at least one occasion. After suffering an unusually severe epileptic fit, the 19-year-old Cooper [...]