Pets & Veterinary Medicine

Learning a pet has diabetes can be a shock. Sadly, about 20% of diabetic cats and dogs are euthanized within a year of diagnosis due to the impacts on the pets' health and their owners' lifestyle and finances.... Read more

The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets.... Read more

An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide.... Read more

Bird farms across England's eastern coast had to enforce preventative bird flu measures starting Monday after a spate of cases were detected in the latest outbreak of the virus.... Read more

A pair of animal health researchers, one with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the other the Pet Poison Helpline/SafetyCall International LLC, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, has found that the number of pet dogs and cats in the U.S. who have consumed cocaine has increased dramatically over the... Read more

Driving over the cattle guards that mark the boundaries of the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevadans are likely to come across an equine friend or two. Or a herd of them.... Read more

Around one third of Australian households live with at least one cat, yet surveys tell us the cats' needs are not being met.... Read more

A concentrated sugar solution could be just as effective as antibiotics at treating a common infection in dairy cows, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. The results were recently published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.... Read more

Three capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) died from rabies on Anchieta Island in the municipality of Ubatuba, São Paulo state, Brazil, between December 2019 and January 2020. One was found dead, and two exhibited hindlimb paralysis before dying. Analysis of their brains conducted at Instituto Pasteur in São Paulo city showed the... Read more

Pakistani veterinary surgeons found that a bacterial infection killed an elephant at a safari park in the city of Karachi earlier this month, a veterinarian with a global animal welfare organization said Wednesday.... Read more

Researchers at ELTE Department of Ethology, Hungary designed an experiment to investigate whether dogs can recognize their owners based on pre-recorded speech. The results provided the first evidence that dogs are capable of voice-based individual-level recognition of humans. The study is published in Animal Behaviour. ... Read more

Around this time of year, pet owners across the country are scrambling to finalize holiday care arrangements.... Read more

Understanding dairy cow behavior has been a hot topic of dairy science research in the last few decades. In a special issue of JDS Communications dedicated to behavior in dairy animals, a new study highlights the importance of environmental enrichment for improving the welfare of housed dairy cows.... Read more

Raw milk recalled from a Fresno County dairy is suspected in the deaths of two cats in Los Angeles County, health officials said Thursday.... Read more

University of Pittsburgh researchers have identified evidence of H5N1 adaptation in domestic cats. Work centered on a rural outbreak in South Dakota, where multiple cats died after showing neurological and respiratory symptoms.... Read more