Woman's Own

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Dogs in particular are amazing at sniffing out dozens of different illnesses, including cancers, malaria, Parkinson’s and, more recently, COVID-19. Dogs’ sense of smell is 10,000 times better than humans’, and is sensitive to the slightest change – i

Chat It's Fate

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A master healer, ideal for nervous dogs – this crystal is often referred to as ‘The Tranquiliser’ because of its powerful ability to reduce fear in animals (and humans). A fantastic soothing crystal for dogs frightened of being touched. Interestin

POPSUGAR

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A new analysis of 70 years' worth of studies that look at the effect of owning a dog on your survival claims that having a dog lowers your risk of dying early by 24 percent - and yeah, that sounds about right! Of course anyone who owns a dog - or sim

Women's Health Australia

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I once read a magazine article by a writer whose dogs would roll over and pee in excitement when he walked through the door. “They both think I’m the greatest,” he wrote. It stuck with me, and not just because it made me laugh. I thought of how my ow

Reader's Digest UK

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Children would detox from technology. As a parent myself, I am always conscious of the amount of time that my children are spending in front of screens. My first rule as leader of the world would be that children must detox from technology out in the

Sporting Gun

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Introducing a dog to gunfire needs careful consideration. Nowadays, I see few dogs that are genuinely gun-shy; I do see, however, dogs that are “gun nervous”, which in most cases has been brought on by incorrect or hurried introduction to shot. Depen

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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SCIENCE BEHIND THE HEADLINES Lonely dogs | Stool-gazing | COVID-19’s origins Dogs love to spend time with their human family. So much so that we usually have to actively teach them as puppies that it’s really going to be okay if they’re not with us e

The Guardian

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The group of strangely coloured canines was first spotted on 11 August prompting locals to complain to the local pollution control board

Sporting Gun

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• I would not consider doing any formal training with a puppy until they are at least six months old as by then they are a bit more physically and mentally able to cope with it. In the early days I like to spend a lot of time playing with the puppies

Chicago Tribune

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Anyone who has ever owned a dog knows the experience can have its, um, drawbacks. Dogs of our acquaintance have been known to shred rolls of toilet paper, gobble food off counters, bark furiously at squirrels and letter carriers, barf on rugs, whine

Chat Specials

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Q Our family dog is unwell, and we are facing having to put him down. Our kids, aged eight and six, have never experienced loss. How can I prepare them? Joanna, Dorset A Bereavement and loss can be difficult at any age, whether it relates to a much

India Today

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The Yamuna may be dead, says the radical performance artist who famously chopped off his little finger and threw it in the river in 2002. But Mantos dog lives on- and he's making a series of films to show how. In Mantos Dog of Tithwal, Indian and Pak

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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Direct prolonged eye contact can be quite intimidating for most dogs. But if your dog is happy to share soft gazes with you, it can mean that they feel comfortable connecting with you in this way. “Most of us know that dogs are happy to see us when t

The Atlantic

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Twenty years after it was first published, Kirsten Bakis’s extraordinary novel Lives of the Monster Dogs still has a lot to say about the entwined destinies of animals and humans.

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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Dogs are more than just pets; they’re a member of the family… right? If so, you’d think that they’d want to look after you just as much as you look after them. But, unfortunately, a study has found that this may not be the case. Dogs won’t give food

Your Pregnancy

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Cherry Melon, our fave maternity store, has launched Breasties, a pad providing natural hot and cold therapy for sore breasts. Available for R329 from the three Cherry Melon stores (Canal Walk, Cape Town; Menlyn and Cresta, Gauteng) and cherrymelon.c

Shooting Times & Country

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SIKA HAS HAD some downtime after the shooting season and is now being brought back into training. She did fantastically for her first season, picking warm game, being totally steady to shot, hunting under control and recalling consistently around gam

Sporting Gun

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For people who only ever mate their bitch once, the most important factor is to make sure you have prepared the dog beforehand. For the uninitiated it can be quite daunting. For starters, you should have done the necessary health tests to ensure that

Guardian Weekly

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While you doubtless don’t need to be reminded of the aeons we’ve known and loved dogs, zoology has had a tendency to neglect them. “For decades in the 20th century,” Jules Howard writes, “dogs were considered un worthy of rigorous study” since focusi

Shooting Gazette

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Q My dog gets very agitated after a while when we are training. He starts off well but then quickly seems to get slower and has been known to go and sit under the car. It is a fairly recent thing but shows no signs of going away. Any thoughts? A Oh d

The Big Issue

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Selected by Jules Howard Popular zoologist and wildlife expert 1 Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz Many authors write non-fiction science about animals in a detached way. Not Horowitz. With eloquence and skill, s

Futurity

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Dogs not only go out of their way to comfort their upset owner, but will overcome obstacles to do it quickly, experiments show. In the journal Learning & Behavior, researchers show that dogs with strong bonds to their owners hurried to push through a

Shooting Times & Country

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A recently published study of 426 Italian dogs revealed that 86% of them showed behavioural changes after the death of a canine companion. It prompted newspaper reports that dogs experience a form of mourning, while one of the authors of the report,

Game & Fish West

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As duck season progresses, taking care of your dog in cold weather is vital. That starts with a healthy diet. “I strongly encourage people to feed their dog a high-quality food year-round, not just during hunting season,” says Jared Moss, owner of Be

Woman

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MY HAVANESE WAS ATTACKED BY A SPRINGER SPANIEL IN MY LOCAL PARK LAST WEEKEND; WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS? I’m so sorry to hear that this happened and I can imagine it was a terrifying event. You are not alone in being unsure of your rights. Often I am aske

Pick Me Up Special

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Over 26% of the UK adult population owns a dog. And it turns out, it's good for you! According to research by The Kennel Club, owning a dog can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, mainly as a result of the extra motivation they provide for

Futurity

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Researchers have found that people may not recognize that their dog is stressed when exposed to common household noises. While it’s well established that sudden loud noises, such as fireworks or thunderstorms, commonly trigger a dog’s anxiety, the ne

Literary Hub

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My dog has a carbon footprint. She loves food for one thing, especially meat, and sometimes I keep the heat turned up a few degrees for her when I leave the house. In a strictly economic sense, her productivity (the ratio between output and input vol

Shooting Times & Country

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In my previous training article (Confidence is crucial, 23 March), we were looking at getting the dogs going nice and confidently in a straight line to an area to hunt for a retrieve. It is equally vital that a dog can hunt for itself and hold an are

Country Life

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AT last, there is a roadmap out of lockdown—schools have opened their doors, hairdressing appointments have been secured and pub tables hastily booked. However, as we creep towards the light at the end of the tunnel, spare a thought for our canine co