Film pirates are trying to throw British DVD-sniffing black labradors Lucky and Flo off their scent with chemical sprays after the dogs have traced counterfeit films worth in excess of £2 million.
Since scoring their first major success - leading enforcement officers to a cache of a million pirated discs worth £150,000 in mid March - Lucky and Flo have gone [...]

A high-tech pet collar is set to help lost pets find their way home – when it eventually comes to the UK.
The PetSafe Micro I.D.T Rescue Collar is only currently available in the US. It isn’t just a collar, but the ultimate pet protection system with convenient features even today’s best micro-chipping systems can’t offer.
Hidden [...]

The RSPCA has launched a new advert to highlight the upcoming changes to the Animal Welfare Act, which means pet owners will be legally obliged to provide their animals with five basic rights.
Created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, the advert, entitled ‘omeless’, also hopes to show that most animal cruelty comes not from abuse, but [...]

Specially trained dogs are helping young children learn to read.
And as aresult reading in schools in Moore County, Texas is improving thanks to this technique. For example, Emily Hodges and Hannah Ryan participate in the reading programme at Pinehurst Elementary School. The two look forward to Wednesday because they get to read to their pal.
“I like reading to Luther [...]

A parakeet in Richmond Park
Parakeets are reported to be colonising gardens, parks and woodland throughout the south east of England including London - especially west London - as they warm to suburbia.
An estimated 30,000 of them have colonised our urban green spaces so far, and ornithologists estimate this figure could double in the next few years.
Parakeets are now among the most frequently-sighted species, [...]

Organic baby apparel retailer, Sckoon Organics, is launching its own line of organic dog apparel, including t-shirts, chew toys, and other clothing items.
The t-shirts, which will be made of organic cotton, will be available in a wide array of colours, so dog owners of those breeds that feel the cold, like miniature scnauzers, will be able to [...]

The UK’s pet owning households could be home to around 20,000 flea eggs at any one time, leading veterinary charity, PDSA has revealed.
Each egg has the potential to develop into an adult flea and Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind is well aware that within just six months, one flea on a pet will typically [...]

Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind is helping fight a local authority’s plans to ban dogs from its parks in a bid to keep a community clean.
CDPOM has reported Horden Parish Council to the Kennel Club’s national dog owners group, KC Dog, set up to help dog owners protect themselves.
Horden Parish Councillors are being asked [...]

Pet food manufacturers could be responsible for an increase in diabetes in pet cats by  packing carbohydrates into cat food.ÂÂ
Cats, Dogs & Peace of Mind has discovered new American research that reveals cats lack the genes necessary for them to digest sugars in their livers. This means their bodies cannot control the metabolism of carbohydrates and prevent glucose [...]

A woman who founded an animal shelter has left her entire estate, worth up to $1 million, to the care of pets – especially cats.  Georgia Wiesendanger was 92 when she died in October. She willed her US estate, which includes several homes and their contents and the Winthrop Real Estate Agency, to area shelters. [...]