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 will suffer an infestation [...]

Nearly 25% of pet owners admit getting rid of their animals when they move home, according to new research by a vet product manufacturer.
The work, commissioned by CEVA Animal Health, which makes Feliway and DAP pet calming products, revealed that people resort to giving their pets to family, friends, neighbours and rescue centres when the removal [...]

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 group on Pet Street, [...]

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 12% [...]

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 to get [...]

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.Â
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 to [...]

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 RSPCA [...]

Otto, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rare-breed Turkish Van cat, has given his verdict on his dad’s latest work – he’s deleted it!
The 59-year-old pop composer was working on the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, based on Fredrick Forsyth’s novel Day of the Jackal, when Otto climbed inside the digital Clavinova piano, jumped on the [...]

Pet owners are buying luxury food for their animals that is as much as three times as expensive as similar food for humans, according to The Sunday Times.
An article in today’s paper (03/06/07) says that ingredients being fed to pets include venison, garlic and herbs, with some foods also available in organic and healthy [...]

Whether they are our domestic companions or the biggest, meanest lions and tigers, they are all exquisitely susceptible to the volatile oil found in the stems and leaves of the catnip plant.
When they smell catnip they behave like females on heat. They may rub their heads and body on the herb or jump, roll [...]