Hairless Cats and Dogs

Naturally hairless cats and dogs are a rare and, to some, unsettling sight. Wrinkled and bald they look like extraterrestrials set adrift on an alien and inhospitable planet. These unusual animals are so vulnerable to extremes of temperature and excess sunshine that hairless cats are almost always kept indoors and hairless dogs are usually only [...]

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ShelterCare Pet Insurance Program to be Expanded!

North America’s #1 Pet Insurance Program for Adopted Dogs and Cats to Offer Four New Enhancements
Pethealth, owner of ShelterCare® Pet Insurance Program for newly adopted pets, is pleased to announce it has added four new enhancements to its industry-leading pet insurance program designed for those pet parents who choose to adopt their new dog or [...]

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Overcoming Preconceptions about Indoor Cats

The question for pet parents over whether to allow their cats outdoors or to keep them indoors is one which elicits a barrage of responses from proponents on both sides of the debate.
The HSUS and most members of the animal welfare community are unequivocally in favor of keeping cats indoors, in addition two out of [...]

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Caring for Blind Cats and Dogs

The animal welfare community has to deal with many highly charged and emotional situations during the course of their everyday working lives and one that is particularly hard on humans and animals alike is the intake of blind animals.
While blind cats and dogs can live happy and fulfilling lives as part of a family in [...]

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Cats – the Houdinis of the Domestic Pet World

Watching a cat as it goes about its daily bathing ritual, one can only be amazed by the flexibility they demonstrate. Similar feats of contortion may be witnessed when observing a cat slip through a tiny crack or when viewing slow motion footage of a cat righting itself mid-air. What is it that allows these [...]

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