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Unwanted hitchhikers: Canadian couple brought home hookworms from the beach

February 05, 2019 - canines and felines, the hookworm larva normally last only six weeks in the very different environs of the human body before dying off.

Cutaneous larva migrans can also be eliminated with the proper anti-parasitic medicine. (Related: Are you anemic? It may be bedbugs.)

"All this just from walking barefoot on the beach," Zytner lamented in a Facebook post.

The couple learned their painful lesson. Now recovering from her unexpected bout with creeping ...

Dogs that exercise need to consume more antioxidants for optimum health, but which diet formulations are the best?

June 15, 2018 - canines fed with commercial diet significantly dropped after going through a strenuous activity. The same thing happened to their levels of vitamin E. Almost all the dogs from the first group tested normal in terms of metabolites during check-ups, except for one who came close to a critically low level of taurine.

Meanwhile, both levels of taurine and vitamin E were maintained either at or above the baseline for the dogs belonging to the second group. The researchers ...

Protect yourself against risk of early death: Get a dog

August 23, 2018 - canines can protect their owners from cardiovascular disease.

She added that they have confirmed that dog owners in general are often more active, and this could have been a contributing factor in the results of their study. Other possible reasons could be "increased well-being and social contacts or effects of the dog on the bacterial microbiome in the owner." (Related: Pet dogs go out of their way to comfort humans they sense are sick or depressed.)

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Ruh? Dogs visualize what they are smelling, according to research – and they are surprised if it’s not what they expect

April 05, 2018 -

It is a known fact that dogs have a keen sense of smell, but how canines interpret what they smell mostly remains unknown.

For the study, which was published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MSP-SHH) and the Department for General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Psychology) at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena tried to analyze a dog's sense of smell.

The ...

Dogs proven to recognize themselves through precise sense of smell

September 10, 2017 - canines in general have high levels of cognitive complexity, but previous attempts to demonstrate their capacity to recognize themselves have been inconclusive.

"This sniff-test could change the way some experiments on animal behavior are validated. I believe that dogs and other animals, being much less sensitive to visual stimuli with respect to what, for example, humans and many apes are, cannot pass the mirror test because of the sensory modality chosen by ...

Media says dogs can sniff covid on a person – can they also identify vaccinated people who are “shedding?”

May 21, 2021 -

Researchers out of France claim that canines are more effective at screening for viruses than laboratory tests that, quite frankly, are being manipulated to further the Chinese Virus agenda.

Sniffing dogs are also more effective at detecting viruses than fast lateral flow tests (LFTs), scientists say, having the ability to detect the presence of the Wuhan Flu with upwards of 97 percent accuracy.

How they determined this is unknown, but a trial conducted back ...

Chicago seeking help in identifying 19 persons of interest connected to ARSON ATTACKS during city’s engineered riots

July 12, 2020 - canines.

Some of the properties damaged during the riots include a pharmacy, a nail salon, a sports merchandise store, a liquor store, several other properties and a handful of vehicles.

One of the videos the CPD released features a White-looking man who they say is wanted for allegedly igniting an unattended CPD squad car in River North. In another video, a man in the neighborhood of Austin starts a fire inside a looted and ransacked convenience store before ...

San Francisco turning into a giant toilet filled with human feces as leftist bureaucrats accelerate America’s plunge into Third World status

April 23, 2019 -

According to the San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW), city employees throughout the Golden Gate mecca are encountering increasingly more poop – and not the kind left behind by canines – on roadways and sidewalks with each passing year – the most recent year for which data is available clocking in the greatest number of poop piles on record.

Back in 2011, there were about 5,500 incidents of human poop reported on the streets of San Francisco – a number ...

Puppy love: Keep your dog happy and healthy with these 5 easy tips

October 22, 2018 - canines have periods of rest but also periods of activity. If the owners provide structure to their dog’s days, that can be really helpful for dogs to know what is coming next. Almost all animals follow a schedule during the day and night; it is what we encounter along the way as we move through the day that keeps it different.”

Make it a point to do certain activities at around the same time of the day to promote better mental health in your dog.New tricks

Use ...

Service dogs help military veterans with PTSD

August 27, 2018 -

Anywhere from five to 20 percent of U.S. military veterans return home with terrible memories of combat and violence. Even if they are not physically injured, their PTSD severely hampers them from reconnecting with their loved ones and society in general.

Some of these veterans require the assistance of service dogs, specially-trained assistance canines that help disabled people. These dogs are individually trained and are therefore expensive.

An early ...

Trained bees successfully locate landmines in Croatia

August 14, 2018 - canines are much more expensive to train and feed. Dogs also treat the search for bombs as a game, so they will get bored with the task.

Read more articles about the close relationship between humans and honeybees at Bees.news.

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How safe are vegan diets for your pet dogs and cats?

August 01, 2018 - canines. While its not absolute yet, the findings have given many pet owners and veterinarians pause -- and raises greater concern about the safety of vegan diets for traditionally carnivorous pets. But there are many concerns about the safety of "traditional" pet food too -- which is why so many pet owners have turned to home-cooked, human-grade food.

For now, the world of pet nutrition continues to have more questions than answers. One thing is certain though: ...