News: Other pets

Fleas can infest your pet all year round Summer is the time of year when fleas are at their most numerouis and, as they are one of the most common parasites caught by pet cats and dogs, it’s important you are in control of any possible problems. Indeed, it’s thought that every cat and dog…

Online social networks are attracting great interest? across the world’s population and the team at Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind is no exception. Seeing considerable potential for keeping in touch with each other, existing customers, former employees? as well as spreading the word and attracting new clients and carers, CDPOM has now? added a…

More than two in five British pet owners take their animals on holiday with them. And a third of owners said they take shorter holidays because of their pets, a survey from travel company TripAdvisor found. Of pet owners worldwide, seven per cent will only travel to destinations where they can take their animals, with…

Scientists have given new hope to animals stricken by cancer by unveiling plans to build Europe’s biggest cancer treatment centre for pets. The move offers the chance of a cure for animals that would once have been put down. Now devoted pet-owners who can afford between £500 and £4,000 can look forward to being? able…

A leading veterinary charity says pets should be ‘buckled-up’ in the car to avoid causing serious injury to themselves and their owners in a car crash. The PDSA says that if a vehicle is involved in a crash at 30mph, and an unrestrained 50lb (22.5kg) border collie is thrown forward the force would be equivalent…

Fears have been raised over the safety of wildlife in Essex after tropical pets were found dumped in some Redbridge’s most important wetland habitats. Residents living near to Eagle Pond, in Snaresbrook Road,? were alarmed after a large oriental Koi carp was spotted feasting on bread which had been thrown in for the wildfowl.The sighting…

NEW research from the RSPCA suggests that thousands of pet owners in the United Kingdom die each year without making arrangements for their pets in their wills. In Cambridgeshire alone, for example, the RSPCA found that 900 pet owners died last year with less than half the county’s population happy to take on the animals.The…

Pet owners need to begin taking special care of their animals before the dog days of summer arrive.? Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind founder and director Louise Wilsher believes that? now is the time to think about parasite control, heat stroke and travel arrangements for cats and dogs. “Every summer, vets see animals that…

The number of? abandoned pets has risen? by more than 40 per cent, according to? leading animal charity the RSPCA. And the worrying trend is how many are being dumped just because their owners no longer want them. Last year the RSPCA rescued 9,506 abandoned or unwanted animals compared? to 6,590 in the previous year…

An18ft python, that should have been slithering through a jungle, has been found? on a British road? ? going nowhere fast. The snake was discovered by a man out walking his dog, and police are now trying to find out how the fully grown reptile wound up in the village of Cloughton near Scarborough, a…