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The pros and cons of pet health insurance were examined on NPR’s “Planet Money” yesterday.
Reporter David Kestenbaum interviewed veterinarians, insurance providers, an economist and pet owners — including one whose hedgehog, Harriet, recently needed a cancerous lump removed. Fortunately, she was covered.
“Pet health care is now crossing the same magic threshold that human health care crossed decades [...]
Almost two of every three pet owners prefer dogs, according to an online poll conducted jointly by the American Kennel Club and the Cat Fanciers Asociation.
Of more than 9,000 votes cast, dogs fetched 65 percent of them. The votes in the “pet preference” poll were tallied over eight weeks on the website meetthebreeds.com.
Inspired by the upcoming [...]
Holy Formaldehyde! Times are changing. As of this fall, thousands of Catholic school students in the Philadelphia area can opt out of that once mandatory, highly stinky rite of passage — dissecting a frog in biology class.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has established a policy under which students in its 20 high schools who have concerns about [...]
The company that brought you the Emmy Award winning A&E show “Intervention” is starting production of a new “documentary-reality show to be called “Animal Hoarders.”
GRB Entertainment says the new series will be “an unflinchingly honest look at animal hoarders, the people and pets affected by them, and the challenges of confronting their unusual condition.”
The show [...]
The Irish love dogs far more than cats, according to a new study about pet ownership.
Research by University College Dublin found that 36 percent of homes in Ireland have a dog, while just one in 10 homes own a cat, IrishCentral.com reports.
The dog-to-cat ratio is much more drastic than in most other countries, including the [...]
