Browsing: Pets

Private equity’s foray into the human health care have been blamed for increasing prices, slashing services and shuttering hospitals to maximize profits — and veterinarians say the pet health care industry could see similar results.

A impactful photo project highlights the crucial role of pets in improving the mental and physical health of people experiencing homelessness.

Different interactions with dogs, such as playing or embracing, uniquely alter brain activity, improving stress relief and focus.

If you are a smoker you’ve definitely heard more arguments than you can count against keeping such a habit. However, you continued to smoke, no matter what scary studies did scientists come up with. But apparently, this is not a decision to affect only you: your canary, dog, cat or why not turtle, might be […]

Pets do more than it may appear for their owners: they teach us a lot about unconditional love, responsibility, death and, of course, pooper scoopers. But aside from that they probably keep a child from developing allergies rather than causing it. This is not yet a scientific certainty, but the idea that pets might […]