Filed Under: Dog Health, Dog News by admin on 23-04-2008
Your socks may cost you $1000 if ingested by your dog!
Some swallowed household objects can get stuck in dogs’ gastrointestinal tracts and a costly surgery may be a necessity.
Dr. Carol McConnell, vice president and chief veterinary medical officer for VPI, states that ingested household item can harm your dog and may cause pain, vomiting, or internal injury. In those cases your vet needs to surgically remove it from your dog’s stomach.
Top 10 Items Surgically Removed From Dogs:
- Socks
- Bones
- Balls
- Corn Cobs
- Sticks
- Rocks
- Chew Toys
- Underwear
- Panty Hose
- Hair Ties/Ribbon
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Filed Under: Dog News by admin on 14-04-2008
Dog ownership is up as well as dog spending in 47,842 households in the US according to statistics released by American Veterinary Medical Association. This kind of survey has been conducted every five years, and the latest AVMA survey results showed an increase in dog ownership of 26.5 million dogs.
AVMA statistics:
- There are 43 million homes with dogs in the US
- Dog owners generally have multiple pets – 1.7 per home versus 2.2 for cats
- 48.7% of owners regard their dogs as family
- More than 64% of homes have two or more pets
- The increase in spending on veterinary services is two billion dollars: dog owners spent $25.5 billion dollars
- Women are the central caregivers to dogs in a household
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It happened on the French-controlled Island of Réunion, a small volcanic island off Africa’s East coast.
There were multiple cases reported of using dogs as baits for high-sea fishing business, particularly shark fishing. Several parts of the body or simply alive bleeding animals were hooked and thrown overboard!
There is no way to escape. Mostly none of the animals have not been lucky enough to live and the ones that were, were just thrown into the ocean.
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Filed Under: Dog News by admin on 20-03-2008
A Californian dog owner, Bernann McKunney, is geared up to pay $150,000 for her dead dog recreation in the world’s first commercial pet cloning project. McKunney has become especially attached to her dead dog, named Booger, after the pit bull saved her life when another dog attacked her.
Specific breeds of pit bull are banned or restricted in several countries including the UK, New Zealand and Canada.
The lady kept a part of the dog’s ear in cold storage and now scientists of RNL Bio, based in Seoul, South Korea, will try to create an exact copy of the pet.
The work will be carried out by a group of Seoul National University (SNU) scientists supervised by professor Lee Byeong-chun, known as a member of Hwang Woo-suk’s discredited stem cell scientist research team.
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Have you ever seen a $32,000 doghouse? Decorated with over 7,600 radiate Swarovski crystal beads and a soft pinkish pillow with the face of Hello Kitty - a famous brand in Japan, made by Sanrio Co.
Lately, Hello Kitty became a Japanese icon of cuteness, and mostly turns attention to young women and various aged children.
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If you are in a process of choosing your next life, think twice: sometimes it’s better to be a dog than a human to get rich! White Maltese dog named Trouble was left $12 million by an owner, billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley, in her will. And while lucky little fur child to the late real estate magnate will be living in the lap of luxury until her last day, “for reasons that are known to them”, as she wrote, two of her grandchildren have been left nothing.
Leona Helmsley died in August 2007 in her Connecticut home, and in her will left $12 million to her dog, and has also ensured that Trouble is taken a good care of: her brother who will be Trouble’s caretaker inherited millions.
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