Doggone: wet pet food 'seven times worse' for climate than dry
Feeding cats and dogs wet food has a much larger climate impact than dry food, a new study found, suggesting small changes by pet owners can massively reduce their carbon footprint.
Feeding cats and dogs wet food has a much larger climate impact than dry food, a new study found, suggesting small changes by pet owners can massively reduce their carbon footprint.
Environment
Nov 24, 2022
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Dog attacks on other dogs or cats are traumatic events for pet owners—but what do we know about how commonly they occur, or how you might reduce the risk of your pet being involved?
Veterinary medicine
Mar 22, 2022
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Co-dependent and clingy or casual and aloof—a new study has examined the behavior of pet cats to understand what it means about their relationship with their owner, and the research suggests it's a two-way street!
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2021
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Having a cat (or several) can add companionship and warmth to any household. As you share each other's space, however, you may have noticed a few quirks that your cat exhibits, varying from adorable to plainly bizarre.
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2021
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Got a cat that always seems hungry? New University of Guelph research suggests you might want to reduce—not increase—how often you feed them.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 23, 2020
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Cat owners fall into five categories in terms of their attitudes to their pets' roaming and hunting, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2020
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In medicine and biology, there is great interest in efficient and inexpensive methods for identifying and separating different cell types, for example for medical diagnostics or for regenerative therapies using stem cells. ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 26, 2020
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Dog and cat owners already know their companion animals seem to loathe the 'cone of shame' they are required to wear after surgery or when they have a sore or itchy spot. But very little research has been done to assess the ...
Veterinary medicine
Mar 12, 2020
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They know their names. We can read their facial expressions, sort of. And some of them really like having us around. These are among the purported findings of recent scientific studies aimed at deciphering the behavior of ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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Until now, pet owners and veterinarians didn't know for sure. Now University of Guelph researchers have become the first to access data on more than 19 million cats to get a picture of typical weight gain and loss over their ...
Veterinary medicine
Jul 17, 2019
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