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Childhood Allergies: Exposure to Animals During Early Childhood Reduces the Risk
It is generally accepted that early exposure to pets helps protect infants against the later development of allergies. Swedish researchers sought to determine whether there is a...
Working Dogs: A New Predictive Aptitude Test to Improve Selection
A recent study conducted at the University of Arizona (United States) shows that canine cognition tests can be used to select the highest-performing dogs, given the high demand...
Biodiversity: New Zealand Plans to Gradually Ban Cats from Its Territory
New Zealand authorities are considering banning pet cats in the southern part of the country in order to protect local wildlife, particularly several species of native birds. In...
Equine Medicine: A Veterinary Guide to the Proper Use of Medicinal Products in Equines
Treatments and exclusion from human consumption, medications and doping, proper administration, disposal of medical waste, etc. These are just some of the practical topics cover...
End of Life Care: Anima Care for Veterinarians and Pet Owners
Anima Care is a resource center entirely dedicated to end-of-life care for pets. Founded in April 2018 by veterinarian Vincent Dattée (Alfort, 1991), it offers tools and service...
Equine influenza: A new vaccine targets the influenza A H3N8 virus more effectively
American and British researchers have developed a new vaccine against equine influenza that is both safer and more effective than existing vaccines, which have not changed in ne...
Microbiome and Diet: A Close Connection Between Humans and Dogs That Extends Even to the Gut
A study published in *Microbiome* shows that the closeness between dogs and humans extends beyond social relationships and is also reflected in the composition of gut bacterial...
Stem Cells in Cats: A Promising Therapy for Treating Several Feline Diseases
The current and potential clinical applications of mesenchymal stem cell therapy in cats are explored in a study published in the *Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery *. Base...
Exposure to parabens: Pets Are Not Spared
According to American researchers, the exposure of pets—such as dogs and cats—to a wide range of chemicals in their environment is becoming a cause for concern, as is the concom...
Animal-Assisted Therapy: Therapy Dogs Are Now Working in Intensive Care Units
The presence of therapy dogs in intensive care units may come as a surprise, yet they help alleviate patients’ physical and emotional pain and promote their recovery in a more “...
Animal-Computer Interaction: An Elderly Dog Stimulated by Touchscreen Games
A team from the Austrian University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni Vienna) investigated the benefits of interactive cognitive training for older dogs. After all, lifelong lea...
Dog Nutrition: Eating Raw Chicken Can Trigger Acute Polyradiculoneuritis
According to a new Australian study , feeding your dog raw meat increases the risk of it developing severe ascending paralysis—acute polyradiculoneuritis (APN)—by more than 70 t...