Archive for the ‘Animal Health’ Category
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar always managed to drive home the point to her adversaries in the hit television series that aired from 1997 to 2003. Now she has turned to a pointy solution to her pooch's health problems. Ms. Gellar takes her dog Tyson to a ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Someone in San Francisco is looking out for elderly dogs. Sherri Franklin, the founder and executive director of Muttville, started the organization in 2007 to find homes and provide foster care or hospice for abandoned senior and special-needs dogs.
Many of these old dogs end up in shelters because their ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug specifically for the treatment of cancer in dogs, it was announced on June 3, 2009. The drug, Palladia (toceranib phosphate), manufactured by Pfizer Animal Health Inc., is approved to treat canine cutaneous (skin-based) mast cell tumors. Taken orally every ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
All kinds of (bad) puns come to mind when one reads about stakeholders and steering committees in the ongoing debate about a federal mandatory identification program for cattle. But it's no laughing matter.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has begun a "listening tour" (thank you, Mrs. Clinton, for your awful ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Hotel and Real Estate tycoon Leona Helmsley suffered the ignominy of a prison sentence for living by the same philosophy that Timothy Geithner has parlayed into the post of Treasury Secretary in Barack Obama's Cabinet : "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes ..." To add insult ...
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Funny, you don't look Chewish.... Evanger's Dog and Cat Food Co. in Wheeling, Illinois, is hosting a seder for dogs at the Wigglyville pet shop in Chicago on April 11, 2009. The feast will include Evanger's commercially prepared dog food that is endorsed by the Chicago Rabbinical Council as Kosher ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Four months ago Sophie Tucker, a four-year-old blue heeler, was swept off a sailboat in rough seas off the coast of Australia. Jan Griffith, the dog's owner, had given her up for dead. The closest land was an island about five nautical miles away, and the waters were shark infested.
But ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
About three weeks ago, Oprah Winfrey adopted Sadie, an 8-week old female Cocker Spaniel puppy, from PAWS Chicago, an animal shelter. Sadie had some litter mates, and Ms. Winfrey ended up adopting a male puppy, naming him Ivan.
Ivan died from the highly contagious parvovirus last week. Sadie also has the ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Two dogs have died and many others have become gravely ill after ingesting toxic river algae in Canterbury, New Zealand. The algae appears during prolonged warm, dry periods. Authorities are warning residents not to let their dogs swim in the area's rivers. The algae bloom has spread across 10 rivers, ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
At least 180 people perished in last weekend's wildfires in southeastern Australian. Investigators are asking the public for help in finding the arsonists who sent several of the deadly blazes.
Wildlife suffered too. But out of the devastation, a symbol of hope emerged, when a fire patrol found Sam, a Koala ...
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