Researchers Say Dogs’ Risk of Dementia Goes Up More Than 50% Each Year After Age 10
Alzheimer’s impacts countless people, with about a half million new diagnoses each year in the United States alone. It isn’t entirely clear what causes the disease, and there is no cure. However, a new study has found that a similar ailment impacts many aging dogs, and it could provide keys to better understand the disease in humans. A study published in the journal Scientific Reports examined the prevalence of the neurodegenerative disease canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD) in older dogs. They found that it’s a widespread...
Study Shows That Mozart May Be Just What Your Dog Wants To Hear
When we leave home, even for a short amount of time, we worry about our dog. We want to make sure that our furry friend is comfortable and doesn’t get frightened, so we will often turn on some background noise. For some of us, it means turning on the radio and allowing the DJ to visit with our pet for a while. For others, it could mean turning on the TV and letting them listen to one of our favorite shows. Photo: Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio It seems as if your dog does have a preference, and researchers from Queens University Belfast in...
Harry Styles Offers To Watch Stranger’s Dog So He Can Pick Up Dinner
It seems virtually everyone knows who Harry Styles is, but there may be more to the singer than meets the eye. The British musician has become a household name since his appearance as a contestant on The X Factor back in 2010. Since that time, Harry has risen to fame with his music group One Direction and hit songs like “Watermelon Sugar” and “As It Was.” Photo: Twitter/@lanthebush Now, he’s going viral for an entirely different reason: kindness. Los Angeles-based Rory Carroll shared a tweet, calling out Styles...
Nurse Adopts Patient’s Dog After He Was Forced To Give Him Up
Life can be difficult when you’re living at a rehabilitation center and nursing home. Nobody knows this better than Jennifer Smith, who is a nurse at the Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing Home in Rome, New York. When you are a nurse at such a location, you quickly learn some very personal things about some of your patients. That includes something that Jennifer learned about one of the patients that had to give up his dog when he was hospitalized. Photo: PublicDomainPictures According to CNN, the man’s name is John Burley, and he...
Woman Travels The World With Her Cat After Escaping The War In Ukraine
If there is one thing that is universal, it’s the love that we have for the cats in our family. Once we have one, we couldn’t imagine living life without one. In fact, many of us will get more than one cat because there’s just too much love to go around. Photo: YouTube/The Dodo When we have a feline in our family, they are there for everything that our family goes through. This includes the good times and the bad times, as illustrated in the following video. The video, from The Dodo, is about Simba and her human mother,...
House Cat Becomes Hero After Saving Woman Having A Heart Attack
I think that most of us who have ever rescued a cat would agree that they are truly the ones that rescue us. Perhaps we even have a bumper sticker that points to that fact. Every once in a while, however, we hear about somebody who is truly rescued by their pet, and that is what happened to a woman named Sam Felstead. Photo: Wikimedia Commons According to the Metro, Felstead hails from Nottingham, and she is the proud human parent of a cat named Billy. The 42-year-old woman was sleeping one night when Billy decided to wake her up. She is...
Senior Dog Helps Find Lost Mama Dog After Her Puppies Were Rescued Without Her
When we see strays on the street, our hearts go out to them and we want to do what we can to help. Sometimes, we have this opportunity but at other times, we can have our hearts warmed by hearing what others do. Photo: Facebook/The Dodo That is where Jennifer comes in. She found some puppies on the street and was able to rescue them. Jennifer realized that there was a mother nearby and she went out every day to try to find her. According to The Dodo, in order to help find the mother, Jennifer took along her senior dog and he would put his...
Teenager Makes A Boat From A Couch Cushion And Saves Her Dog From A Flood
Natural disasters have affected people around the world in recent years. It has always been a problem, but it seems as if those problems are getting worse and worse as climate change becomes a reality. This was seen recently in Kentucky when devastating floods overtook many neighborhoods and it wasn’t long before the homes were underwater. Photo: YouTube/Inside Edition This affected people in more ways than one, and that is seen in a story about a 17-year-old girl and her beloved dog. Chloe Adams was at home alone when the floodwaters...
Street Dog Suffering From Severe Mange Becomes “Gatekeeper” At Rescue That Helped Him
“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal”, as Joaquin Phoenix has said, but instead makes them a hero. A stray dog missing all his fur and unable to open his eyes due to severe mange was found by Humane Society International- India. Mange is a common skin disease among stray and neglected dogs. It is caused by mites and usually results in the dog losing their fur and forming sores on their skin. It is a painful and itchy condition that can thankfully be treated with proper care. The sweet pup was taken in and...
Australia’s Adorable Bilby Is Being Turned Into A Biological Weapon
In the last 200 years, Australia has lost 31 known species, the most of any country in the world, MSN reports. One of the latest to face the threat of extinction is the adorable bilby. The Bilby is a small defenseless animal, easy prey for invasive predators and classified as Vulnerable by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Photo: Adobe Stock / BradleyThe bilby is a vulnerable marsupial in Australia. According to IFLScience, Climate change has made certain habitats unsuitable for the small marsupials. Land clearing for farming (or as part...
