Whole Dog News

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (SF Gate)
Major veterinary drug recall gets bigger/Animal anesthetic drug pulled off market, but questions remain
By Christie Keith, Special to SF Gate
What if your veterinarian was using a recalled drug — and didn’t know it?
That’s not a hypothetical question. On Sept. 4, at least two veterinary drugs made by Teva Animal Health, [...]

Extend Your Dog’s Lifespan by over 30%!
A study conducted at the Gerald P. Murphy Cancer Foundation and published in the December, 2009 issue of Aging Cell, has found a correlation between the age at which female rottweilers are spayed and their lifespan.The study compared long-lived female rotties (those with a lifespan of 13 or more [...]

As the weather gets chilly, we people start thinking of ways to stay warm. We get out the comforters, extra blankets, and bring out our warmer clothes – Many dog breeds lack an under-coat of hair to keep them insulated when the temperatures drop, and they benefit from bedding to stay comfortable and beat [...]

U.K. Canine Vaccination Survey

From England comes a report on the preliminary results of a well structured survey concerning possible health problems resulting from vaccination of dogs.
Although this is an ongoing survey the early tabulation on approximately 2,700 dogs appears to confirm our concerns with the potential for adverse effects from vaccination.
For the purposes of the [...]

Good Dog, Smart Dog
By SARAH KERSHAW The New York Times
The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog is a tricky one, and until recently much of the research on canine intelligence has been met with large doses of skepticism. But over the last several years a growing body of [...]

MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEBER 2009

A dog receives a massage at the Chateau Poochie, the luxury hotel for dogs and cats in Pompano Beach, Fla.
Photograph by: Herald Archive, AFP-Getty Images, Calgary Herald
Announcement:
Canine Massage Exam
November 2009 …….The National Board of Certification for Animal Acupressure & Massage (NBCAAM) is pleased to announce that the Canine Massage [...]

Diamond Pet Food Recalled AGAIN!
Diamond pet food has recalled cat food due to problems reported in cats in the Rochester, NY area.
Diamond Pet Foods has withdrawn from distribution the following date codes of
Premium Edge Finicky Adult Cat & Premium Edge Hairball cat:
RAF0501A22X 18lb. RAF0501A2X 6 lb.
RAH0501A22X 18 lb.
RAH0501A2X 6lb.
The calls from pet owners [...]

September 30, 2009
Nutro Products is pulling some of its puppy food off store shelves because of a production error, ConsumerAffairs.com has learned.
A Nutro customer representative said the company is taking this action because a worker’s plastic hard hat was “sucked” into some machinery on Monday and the bags of puppy food may have plastic [...]

Flower Essences For Our Dogs
by Dr Jeannie Thomason
Flower essences are liquid drops made from individual flower petals, whose vibrational energy (or essence) is transferred to water by a special process. The drops are then taken internally or applied topically. They are not drugs, vitamins or aromatherapy, they are specially prepared extracts of the flower of [...]

We dog owners have known how smart our dogs really are for a long time now but finally Science is catching up.
Dogs are smarter than toddlers, IQ tests show Border Collies and other bright canines can learn up to 250 words
By Jeanna Bryner
Live Science
updated 8:45 a.m. PT, Sun., Aug 9, 2009
The canine IQ test results [...]