Have You Tripped ver Your Dog?
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- Have You Tripped ver Your Dog?
- The family dog
- Which are safer to live with dogs or cats?
Have You Tripped ver Your Dog?
New York Times
As someone with three small dogs and two cats I could relate to the news today that pet accidents are a major source of injury in the United States. My pets are constantly underfoot and just the other day I took a tumble as I tried to avoid squashing a 6-month-old Shih Tzu. A new study shows that more than 86000 people a year end up in the emergency room.
The family dog
Boston Globe
To scholars who study the human-animal bond as well as marketers who profit from it those broad changes have given rise to the phenomenon of “humanization” the modern tendency to see domestic animals less as beasts than as junior members of the family. And right along with that evolutionary promotion comes a new set of perceived responsibilities on the part of owners. Bring on the pet-food nutritonists veterinary dermatologists and professional dog groomers: Yesteryear’s consumer excess has become in the favored phrase of pet-goods vendors today’s “fur baby. “Today’s pet owners “view their pets as full-fledged members of the family with regard to which they would no more take lightly any serious cutbacks on spending than they would for their kids” concluded a March market report from the consumer-research group Packaged Facts. A 2001 survey for the American Animal Hospital Association revealed that 83 percent of pet owners call themselves their animal’s “mommy” or “daddy. It’s a phenomenon that should also matter to those of us who don’t make a living operating doggie day spas. In an atomized era the growing amount of time and money we collectively spend on pets is an indication of how much we thirst for community leaning on animals for support once provided by other humans.
Which are safer to live with dogs or cats?
Boston Globe
Which are safer to live with dogs or cats? A. Maybe dogs – but only by a hair. The message from experts in zoonotic diseases – infections spread between animals and people – is that both dogs and cats are not only safe to live with but actually enhance human health. Many of the germs carried by pets are far more likely to be transmitted through contaminated food or water than from a pet according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the benefits of pet ownership are legion – lower blood pressure reduced stress even better social lives says Dr. Lisa Moses a veterinary internal medicine specialist at MSPCA Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.
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