Dog’s own leg tries to steal bone.
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“If That Fence Wasn’t There I Would Tear You Apart“.
Published This Month In The Journal of the Blindingly Obvious
“They’ve confirmed what any dog owner knows–that their pooches are sensitive to one’s tone of voice”.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
An HBO smear on purebred dogs: “here’s what they left out”.
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This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
I cannot imagine an animal caring whether he or she is in the city or the country. Just look at the happy dogs in New York City play groups, they are not yearning for the primal woods, they are happy to be with their people, to go to the same place every day, find the same tree every day, see other dogs and get fed and given attention. Can one imagine anybody telling the dog owners of New York that they must give their dogs away and sell them only to people in the country who must promise not to let them work? That only this would make them “happy?” The emotional lives of animals are not complex, it does not take a lot to please them, they do not envy other animals the lives they have.
The Sound Of Settled Science
New structure discovered in canine eyes;
“It’s incredible that in 2014 we can still make an anatomical discovery in a species that we’ve been looking at for the past 20,000 years and that, in addition, this has high clinical relevance to humans,” said William Beltran, an assistant professor of ophthalmology in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and co-lead author of the study with Artur Cideciyan, research professor of ophthalmology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. […]
“This gives us a structural basis to support the idea that dogs might have a higher visual acuity than has been measured so far,”
Art Imitates Life
Here’s hoping that Kate and all other dog lovers appreciate this brilliant ad:
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It’s All In How You Raise ‘Em
There’s a weird myth in dog training, and I think we’ve all been guilty at one time or another, in telling another person that “It’s all in how you raise them”. For owners and handlers suffering under the constraints of [breed specific legislation] and often the little lauded shelter worker*** it becomes a truism comforting those who lack knowledge on their breeds or who’ve read into all the hype and media and simply come across as ignorant morons. For serious dog folk, sometimes it’s something we say just to shut people up.
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Schnauzers in the news: a postcard from my Oregon “vacation”, week before last.
When Success Matters
Why breed service dogs instead of rescue?
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Compilation Of Scaredy Dogs Terrified Of Walking Past Cats.
h/t John Groves
Picking the correct breed is important.
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If you think your mixed-breed pup is naturally hardier than the neighbor’s purebred, you may want to think again. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, indicates that mixed breeds don’t necessarily have an advantage when it comes to inherited canine disorders.
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The data also indicated that the more recently derived breeds or those breeds that shared a similar lineage were more susceptible to certain inherited disorders. For example, four of the top five breeds affected with elbow dysplasia were the Bernese mountain dog, Newfoundland, mastiff and Rottweiler — all from the mastiff-like lineage. This suggests that these breeds share gene mutations for elbow dysplasia because they were descended from a common ancestor.
In contrast, disorders that occurred equally among purebred and mixed-breed dogs appeared to represent ancient gene mutations that had become widely spread throughout the dog population. Such disorders included hip dysplasia, all of the tumor-causing cancers and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition.
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the Animal Farm Dog Advisory Council has spoken;
Last week it issued its latest recommendations to the government and suggests that anyone* who breeds a dog should be registered with their local authority, be given a registration number and give their address and details to the veterinary practice they use.
*Unionized workers, civil servants are assumed to be exempt.
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Top Five Reasons To Breed Your Dog
“Becoming a good breeder is moving from being a pilot to being an air-traffic controller. Suddenly your plane isn’t the most important one in the sky.“
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New Study Shows That Dogs Use Color Vision After All;
…researchers have long believed that dogs seldom rely on colors to discriminate between objects, instead looking solely at items’ darkness or brightness to do so. But a new experiment indicates that this idea, too, is a misconception.
As described in a paper published yesterday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Russian researchers recently found that, at least among a small group of eight dogs, the animals were much more likely to recognize a piece of paper by its color than its brightness level–suggesting that your dog might be aware of some of the colors of everyday objects after all.