Fleas and Ticks: How one Hot Scientist and her Pocket Protector Help your Pets

Grossness and plague-carrying aside, you can’t question their success and hardiness. Fleas are hard to kill with conventional means. I have tried to squoosh co ...

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Clostridium difficile Becoming more Common in North America

What Is Clostridium difficile?Some strains contain genes that allow them to produce toxins. It is the toxins, not the bacteria themselves, that make a person o ...

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in Dogs

The signs of inflammation in the colon (also called the large intestine) are the same regardless of cause: a gooey, mucous diarrhea, straining to pass stool, cr ...

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Senior Cats' Health Issues

A cat's health changes with age. Physical and mental changes occur, just as they do with people. Most older cats sleep more than they did when young, and they u ...

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Safe and Toxic Garden Plant Images

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Facial-recognition apps scout lost pets

Photo by Joanna Cox Roxy, a 10-year-old shiba inu, was lost for five days last summer when she bolted during a thunderstorm. Owner Steve Cox credits a facial-r ...

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