Even within our homes dogs can be perceived as a nuisance.
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Understanding animal management and making it work better for our interspecies society will benefit humans and dogs alike.
When’s the next dog food commercial on?
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Dogs like a little TV – and researchers have been investigating why.
An engorged female tick on the forehead of a dog. To get this big, they need to suck blood for about four days. While this is happening, the tick is injecting neurotoxins into the bloodstream.
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Tick paralysis affect 10,000 dogs each year in eastern Australia, and the treatment can be very expensive. Fortunately, a new drug available is available.
A typical English bulldog.
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Do we need to outbreed bulldogs with poor health with a different breed? Our research suggests this may not be necessary.
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A woman developed sepsis after she was licked by her pet greyhound.
Love me, love my goat.
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We assume that dogs are smarter than other domesticated animals, but science says otherwise.
Can greyhound racing be ethically justified?
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The huge numbers of unwanted dogs killed by the greyhound racing industry has led the New South Wales government to outlaw the sport.
Technology is catching up with dogs – and has additional advantages.
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New research is narrowing the gap, creating technology with the detecting capabilities of canines but without the downsides of relying on a biological system.
How safe is a dog lick, anyway?
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It’s possible – but rare – for a lick from the family pup to transmit bacteria that can cause dangerous blood poisoning.
More than 60% of Australian households include at least one companion animal, which are seen as family members by 88% of these.
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With a majority of households having pets and growing numbers living in apartments, a review of regulations on keeping animals in such communities is timely.
Dogs may not have a confirmed homing instinct but other factors could be driving them homeward bound.
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There is more than pure instinct helping lost dogs find their homes.
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Social media has fuelled a trend for foreign dogs being rehomed in the UK, hampering domestic rescue efforts and increasing disease risks.
Rabies rates are rising in Africa.
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New initiative with old handsets halves rates of the disease in southern Tanzania – and is being applied to other conditions, too.
Do we see Yarra Trail in South Yarra, Melbourne, as being purely for people, or should dogs be able to enjoy it too?
Dogs are important users of urban parks, but these are clearly designed for the use of people – except for a few out-of-the-way dog parks. Is that fair to dogs that have no say about living among us?
Dogs rescued from an Asian farm.
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Eating cats and dogs which have been violently dispatched remains a key element of South Korean cuisine.
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Accusations of animal cruelty at this year’s Crufts have reminded us of the mostly hidden dark side of pedigree breeding.
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We’ve bred them into all shapes and sizes, but dogs haven’t been around for long enough to have evolved beyond Canis familiaris.
Slugs and snails can be accidentally eaten by dogs, wildlife species and humans.
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Around 5% of common garden snails in and around Sydney contain larvae of the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.
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An animal science expert explains why Crufts teaches us so much about man’s best friend.
The cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) female full of eggs.
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Fleas have lived with people for as long as people have lived with pets.