Recent Posts Tagged With 'health'

• FDA, Nutro, pet food: what a mess!

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 23:15 in health, Pet Health, pets

  Christie Keith has a thought provoking story out on SFGate.com about the FDA and how well they work (or don’t!) for us. She talks about Nutro being in the news lately, but it’s the way the whole issue has been handled that points to a muc...

• Salmonell makes Oregon dog sick

  Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 23:26 in health, Pet Health, Dogs, Pet Food Recall

  If you haven’t already, you might want to double check those dog biscuits in your cabinet. USA Today has news of a dog in Oregon that got sick after eating Happy Tails Multi-Flavor Dog Biscuits, which contained some of the peanut butter involve...

• Tainted animal feed destroyed in China

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 08:29 in health, Pet Health, Pet Food Recall

  Tons of melamine tainted animal feed has been destroyed in China. Chinese regulators said over the weekend that they had confiscated and destroyed more than 3,600 tons of animal feed tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical that has been blamed ...

• Glow little kitty, glimmer, glimmer

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 23:33 in health, cats

  This kitty can run, but he can’t hide…not under ultraviolet lights, anyway. His eyes glow ghoulishly in the right light, just like any other cat’s - but so do his nostrils, gums and tongue. Mr Green Genes of New Orleans in the U.S. ...

• Austin blood drive for dogs and people

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 12:14 in health, Pet Health

  Blood drive for dogs and people Saturday, October 18th, 9 am to 1 pm  Southpaws Playschool is hosting Austin’s second ever human/canine blood drive. Human donations benefit the Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas. Canine blood donors will...