Showing 58 posts tagged with "health"
A poll this week announced 63 percent of dog owners would be at least somewhat likely to perform mouth-to-snout resuscitation on their dog in an emergency. It didn’t report how many dog owners actually know how. My guess is fewer than 10 percent.
So here’s an ohmidog! rerun — a four-minute lesson on doggie CPR, as [...]
Sixty-three percent of dog owners would be at least somewhat likely to perform CPR on their pet in the event of a medical emergency, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll.
Only 53 percent of cat owners were so inclined — but we won’t read anything into that.
The poll found that, while most pet owners were prepared to [...]
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 [...]
Concerned that cases of a highly contagious dog flu might be on the rise in Virginia, the Norfolk SPCA has vaccinated its shelter residents and is offering the two-shot vaccine series to local dogs for $45.
The H3N8 influenza virus is fatal to about 5 percent of dogs that catch it, the SPCA said in a news release. [...]
The anonymous owners of two dogs who swallowed cocaine in Florida say they may file a complaint against a West Palm Beach veterinary clinic that refused to treat their dogs because they didn’t have enough money.
The story, as aired on TV station WPBF, is one of those that raises more questions than it answers — [...]
