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Ticks Are Arthropod Parasites for Mammals
Ticks are skin parasites that feed on the blood of their hosts. Ticks like motion, warm temperatures from body heat, and the carbon dioxide exhaled by mammals, ...
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Cat-Proofing Your Home -- Because Resistance is Futile
I have a friend who takes a somewhat reactionary (and useless, really) approach to undesired occurrences in her home and life. For example, when her son left hi ...
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Diets and Heart Disease in Dogs and Cats
Can pet diets cause heart problems?Yes. Thirty years ago, veterinarians recognized deficiency of an amino acid (taurine) as the most common cause of dilated ca ...
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Diagnostic Crotch Sniffing?
Five dogs (Labs and Golden retrievers) were trained to detect contaminated urine in scent detection boxes. When they came across a contaminated urine sample, t ...
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Intervertebral Disk Disease (Herniations of the Disk)
Intervertebral disks are located between the vertebrae (bones of the spine). Each disk has two parts, a fibrous outer layer and the jelly-like interior. When di ...
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Plague and How Avoid It in You or your Companion Animals
In April 2011, a dog in New Mexico’s Sante Fe County was diagnosed with plague. Many people think plague is a disease that was only present hundreds of years ag ...
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