dogs

My sister just told me a very strange story. A few years ago she was visited by Mormon missionaries and spent more than a few hours chatting with them. I had known this. What I didn't know was that her extremely high strung dachshund, Felix, actually bit one of them. (Felix had pretty strong...

That's on the eye-catching street sign put up by the council that I've just seen near where I live, encouraging dog owners to clean up after their pets. There seems to be a lot more of the stuff around than usual at the moment, so it's very timely. Perhaps tanners ought to revert to the use of...

From the Daily Fail: Poor doggies: However, if this story is true, why wasn't it reported at the time?

Recently, I've recieved a video link from a friend where a cat and a pitbull were playing with each other. Not something that one might expect from a cat and a dog; especially a pitbull: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7v1iUWj6w&feature=related Here's one of the comments on this video: "6...

I've heard that once a purebred dog or cat has a litter fathered by a mutt (or the feline equivalent) they are ruined for breeding purposes. The dog or cat is said to retain genetic material from the previous mating that is passed on. This doesn't happen to other mammals so why would it be true...

I have a hypothesis I've been thinking about recently. I saw an episode of the TV series Life on primates the other day, and it showed a species of monkey whose infants are brightly colored to allow the mothers to easily find them. As they mature, the coats turn a more drab color to make them...

Savage beagles terrorize East End

The hypothesis ran that modern dogs were domesticated from wolves in East Asia, but evidence is not supporting this idea. They are thinking that dogs were domesticated in the Caucasus region now, which really caught my eye. Recent evidence suggests that horses were domesticated there, and now...

So, as a dog owner who wants to keep the little miscreants happy and healthy, I read stuff on what is good for them. And I read conflicting things on Avocados. On one side, I read years ago when there was a bumper crop of Avocados and insufficient market that the farmers fed the surplus to...

Considering the PETA attention whoring made fun of in the other thread, I figured I would contrast it with an example of where real animal welfare is taken into account with beneficial results. This AP article describes how dogs have been rescued for use at the Idaho State Correctional...

The bible says things about dogs "a dog always returns to its vomit" and such disgusting and disrespectful things that I have to ask why. Islam dislikes the dog. Why is this? Maybe the question I should be asking is why westerners like them?

One of my dogs has just been diagnosed with spondylosis of the cervical vertebrae. He also has some spondylosis of the lumbar region, minor arthritis of the hips and elbows, and minor calcification of the lungs. He is five years old. Apparently, although I haven't done much research yet...

The Psi-proponent podcast "Skeptiko" talks about James Randi: http://www.skeptiko.com/index.php?id=53 I think that the JREF team should respond to that.

As part of the continuing saga of telepathic dogs begun by Rupert Sheldrake many years ago, a new Web site has started up: http://dogsthatknow.com/ You can watch the first video, showing Tommy moving right over to his waiting spot as soon as his owner starts to return home. The dog has a...

I was walking through a shopping centre and noticed a sign taped to the wall(see attached blurry .jpg). It's about Pixie, a "diagnostic support dog", who will apparently become "agitated or upset" when it's diabetic owner needs sugar. I'd never heard of this before and was sceptical, so I've...

How does one explain the anomalous and sometimes quite long cross-country treks dogs make to re-unite with their owners? See this video; http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4633822 And in my past is a similar story. We owned an old rural tavern when I was a child. We had a dachshund...

Dogs died from ‘virus on shoes’ I wonder who told her that homoeopathy would protect her dogs from Parvovirus.

My dog Shiner has exhibited some unusual behavior lately. He sometimes sleeps on our bed, and my wife has told me several times that he approaches her in the middle of the night, shaking like a leaf. I assumed that he was merely panting, and that's what she was feeling. However, the other...

Possibly not the right forum for this topic, but couldn't find anything closer. My daughter and her boyfriend just returned home to Australia after nearly two years in London. He had a Pit Bull Terrier he obviously had not seen for this time. I imagined a painful reunion where he would have to...

In looking over the news this blazing hot August morning, I noticed several "dog-related" news items ----- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291985,00.html Dog mauls, kills man in Ving Rhames' property http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291985,00.html 'Dog' Chapman case set aside by Mexican...

My dog Shiner Bark (see my avatar) is often intrigued by what's on television. Interestingly, he seems especially focused when animals appear on the screen, and shows a marked preference for mammals over reptiles or birds. I wasn't sure if he actually knew what he was looking at, or was just...

My wife was participating in a discusson on a forum about dogs, and someone said that their dog had heartworms and asked if there was an all-natural remedy. Responses were mixed and deeply divided (of course), but had I been participating the answer would be: Of course there's an all-natural...

I wouldn't expect a clifford the big red dog to be feasible, but how big can dogs get? What's the limit derived from their basic structure? Zorba, an Eglish mastiff, seems to be the largest dog in recorded history and seems to have been in fine physical condition. If they havn't gotten...

How come we haven't bred dogs to be superintelligent? Is there a principled limit on how smart dogs could be bred to be? Think of how smart the product of twenty or thirty years of intensive breeding would be.

I got this in an email earlier today. Our dog is NOT microchipped yet, because we are waiting for a more "universal" chip. Also, our dog has three ID tags and a rabies tag on his collar, and he always has his collar on. Anyway, is this valid, or complete and utter woo woo? Implanted...

And if a dog can do this, they do have a place in the health care system: And not to be outdone by Faith the Rottweiler, that ain’t nothing says a story in the Onion where a labrador retriever is featured that can not only call 911 but fill out the hospital paperwork and get on the phone...

I'm sitting here watching snippets of a local TV programme about the over 50 dogs that have "jumped to their deaths" from Overtoun Bridge in Scotland. The wiki article isn't too helpful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun_Bridge I suspect the angle to come from in debunking this (if indeed...

This has always fascinated me....but the explanations (like that below) don't address all my questions....so maybe you guys'd like to help out :) what stands out is that the falling objects are invariably of the same variety - ie. of frogs etc. but surely a meterological event...

I would really value any opinions or advice on this, whether from vets, animal lovers or anyone who's interested. My situation: One of my beloved German Shepherd dogs (Harry) has recently started to suffer quite badly with pain and stiffness in his hips and back legs. He’s only 7, and I love...

I got this in an email...thought I would share. :) Dear Pastor, I am 8-years old and I am so sad now cause my dog, Scruffy is awfully sick. The pet doctor told my mom that Scruffy has only a few weeks to live because he has a bunch of cancers everwhere. The doctor told my mom that I am gonna...