Health Tip: Prepare an Emergency Kit for Your Pet

Board chair Mitch Reynolds thanked those who attended the meeting to share their concerns and requested that Tammy Manderscheid, HRA executive director find out what the government definition of a service animal would be, as Nokomis is part of a federal housing authority and would be required to …

Mikee, a monkey still in his teens, died unexpectedly of heart problems this fall in St. Paul, Minn. Mikee. “He was more a family member than a pet,” said the obituary, written by Roy Carlson, who got Mikee after raising five children. The remembrance described Mikee’s love of fresh fruit, the History Channel …

Usually, dogs, and sometimes cats, carry the tiny tapeworms in their intestines, where they cause no problems for the pet. In humans, the tapeworm behaves differently. It can invade the liver and spread throughout the abdomen and the rest of the body like a tumour. Without early detection and aggressive …

It is a beautiful warmish-coolish Fall afternoon. My human grabs his stuff and I put on my car harness which means we are going for a ride! I love these moments when we take off and go somewhere yet to be announced. I will know once we get there, of course, but my human likes to keep it a surprise.

John Bradshaw and his colleagues had to invent a new word—and the new field of “anthrozoology”—to describe their work studying the interactions between animals and humans. In his new book, The Animals Among Us, Bradshaw now demolishes a few myths about the pets that increasingly crowd our …

Hopefully, very often, because the more you do it, the more your dog will love you — and new research helps us to understand why. Every time you gaze lovingly into your dogs’ eyes, its levels of oxytocin — the “attachment hormone” — go up. And so do yours. Oxytocin has long been referred to as “the love …

Thirty-eight states allow you to establish “pet trusts” to make sure your pet is cared for after you die. (A side note here, something I never knew until I researched this article: The $12 million Helmsley left to her maltese—what is it with maltese?—was reduced to $2 million when the dog’s caretaker said the …

22-Year-Old Woman Killed by Her 2 Pets Dogs in ‘Grisly Mauling’ While Out for a Walk: Police … Agnew went on to say that they found “various articles of clothing…torn into small pieces” around her body. “It was very clear that the woman in the wounds had suffered some very severe injuries consistent with …