Chilean vet helps dogs, cats and rabbits injured in wildfires
Vina del Mar, Chile Reuters Among the mountains of debris left over from raging wildfires that have killed more than 120 people in Chile are lost dogs and cats, wandering the streets covered in ash and burns. Some whine behind gates where houses used to be, others stick to new people they have found, and […]
Medical access
Have you taken you pet to the vet recently? Isn’t it hugely expensive!? PICTURE: Matt Seymour/Unsplash You know why don’t you? There is no Medicare for animals in Australia. You have to pay what it actually costs to treat your pet – and my understanding is that vets and vet nurses are paid a lot less […]
Rescuers race to save pets in submerged Ukraine city after dam collapse
Kherson, Ukraine Reuters Rescue workers are scrambling to save thousands of animals trapped by floodwaters in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson following the destruction of the vast Kakhovka dam some 60 kilometres upstream. Many dogs, cats and other pets are in peril after owners abandoned them when fleeing floodwaters unleashed by the collapse of […]
Pets returned to shelters in Hungary as owners face rising costs
Budapest, HungaryReuters Chelsy, a soft-eyed dog with an immune illness, has been returned to a Hungarian animal shelter two years after he was adopted as his owners can no longer afford the vet’s bills or his food, forced to sell their own home to make ends meet. Chelsy, four, is not alone. People turn up […]
Cash-strapped Britons give up pets as living costs soar
London, UKReuters Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of Britons to part with their pets. She was found running along a busy road in London after witnesses saw her […]
StrangeSights: Cooling for hot dogs and cats; “chief candy officer” wanted; and, a giant Swiss flag…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Brazilian city’s homeless get incentive for going to shelter: beds for their pets
Canoas, Brazil Reuters A small city in southern Brazil has found a way to attract more homeless people to one of its shelters on chilly winter nights: They now also take in people’s pets. Canoas – a city with an estimated population of 348,000 in the state of Rio Grande do Sul – came to […]
Health Insight: Pet therapy – how dogs, cats and horses help improve human wellbeing
In an article first published on The Conversation, ANN HEMINGWAY, professor of public health and wellbeing at Bournemouth University in the UK, looks at the role pets can play in human health…
Latvian woman drives into Ukraine to rescue pets
Lviv, UkraineReuters At an animal shelter in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Natalia Horobets bid an emotional farewell to her beloved pet cat Charly on Monday. Horobets and her husband had fled their home in the eastern city of Kramatorsk as Ukrainian troops fought Russian invaders. But after a difficult journey west on a […]
Dog custody: Spain to consider pets’ welfare in divorce battles
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain will consider a pet’s welfare when couples divorce or break-up from Wednesday in a legal shift that strengthens the case for couples obtaining shared custody of their animals. The decision follows similar moves in France and Portugal and obliges judges to consider pets as sentient beings rather than objects owned by […]