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My Dog Ate Chocolate and He Was Fine, so What鈥檚 the Big Deal?

23 Aug 2019

If you ask a dog owner what dogs cannot eat, they鈥檒l list some foods like onions, garlic, rhubarb, grapes and chocolate. (As an aside, if they say grains, don鈥檛 listen to them.) Dogs' inability to...

Your Pet Cat May Be a Bit More Dangerous Than You Think

17 May 2019

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an infection resulting from a scratch or bite of a cat (or, in rarer cases, dogs or other animals). It is not the same thing as Cat Scratch Fever, an album by Ted...

What Should I Be Feeding My Dog?

1 Mar 2019

If you have a dog, you don鈥檛 need me to tell you how important food is to their happiness. But even if you realize how much your dog loves food (the speed with which they gobble it up is a good...

鈥淲estinghousing鈥: The kind of experiments that would never take place today (thank goodness!)

6 Dec 2018

In the late 1880s the two giants in the burgeoning field of electricity, namely Thomas Edison and Georges Westinghouse, squared off in what has been called The Battle of The Currents. Edison was...

Cats can get Leukemia and it's Contagious

4 Nov 2017

Cat鈥檚 can be infected with a virus called Feline Leukaemia Virus (FeLV), a virus which, if not fought by the kitty鈥檚 immune system before a certain infection stage, can cause secondary infections,...

Cats and Catnip

20 Mar 2017

What do we know about cats? You show them a litter box and they will from that moment on never make anywhere else in the house. Try that with a dog. Cats don鈥檛 have receptors for sweets, so you can...

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