Outbreaks close shelter, kennels
Several dogs have died from a rare illness that forced a Brooklyn animal shelter to close for nearly a week, the Associated Press reports. Animal Care & Control of New York City says the dogs at...
View ArticleFor dogs, slaughter continues in Baghdad
Embedded video from CNN Video “While human beings in Iraq were killing each other in huge numbers, they ignored the dogs, which in turn multiplied at an alarming rate,” the New York Times reported last...
View ArticleHappy National Hairball Awareness Day
It’s not too often we cover cats at ohmidog!, but National Hairball Awareness Day (it’s today, if you didn’t know) isn’t strictly about cats. Dogs get hairballs too — as do humans, and cud-chewing...
View ArticleA drug to make your dog live longer?
Two University of Washington scientists think it might be possible to slow the aging process in canines and are launching a pilot study with 30 dogs to see if the drug rapamycin significantly extends...
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