Simon’s Cat ‘Cat Man Do’
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DNA testing to determine what breed your dog is.
This is a commercial site but I thought it was neat: Discovering Canine Heritage – Would you like to know which characteristics your canine companion was bred for? Now you can! Outside of curiosity for health reasons it might be useful as some breeds have disease predispositions and it might give a diagnosis hint. Click
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How to Tell if Your Dog Has Dental Disease
Dental disease, specifically periodontal disease, is the most common ailment affecting pet dogs and cats. The amount and severity of dental disease in our pets can be very surprising. The recognition and treatment of dental disease is all-to-often overlooked by veterinarians and pet owners alike. Most veterinary schools have yet to recognize the importance teaching
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Greeders vs. Breeders
Hi John, I’d like to suggest you write about shunning the “breeders” of the so-called designer breeds. I see a number of these mix-breeds coming through my obedience classes and am amazed at how intelligent, well-educated people can fall for the half-truths and lies from these “breeders”. They claim they are producing hybrid vigour by
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Stair Fright
Dear John, We have an 8 month old Maltese that is house trained. However, we had an incident this week where he finally made it upstairs unattended for a few minutes. When my husband went up to get him although all the doors were closed he had pooped about 15 piles all over the landing
John Fires Back
Dear John, You recently gave advice to a Chesapeake Bay Retriever owner when she wrote about rough play with another dog and concern over how a little child would push things too far. I found it really disappointing. You perpetuated a stereotype of Chesapeakes being “vicious dogs” and ultimately said “give the thing away”. Not