Leading Vet Charity Supports Change of Culture in Dog Breeding

PDSA, the UK’s leading veterinary charity, welcomes the recommendations outlined in the Bateson Report published today. It raises some very important health and welfare issues and lays the foundations for ...

Your Husband or Your Crocodile? Pets v Partners Debate Goes On

Several papers carried a report last week of the Australian woman who chose her pet crocodile over her husband. Though an extreme example, this preference of pets over partners isn’t as ...

Do The Changing Seasons Affect Your Pet’s Mood?

With the clocks about to go back and the temperatures dropping daily, leading vet charity, PDSA, has launched an online survey to find out if our pets' behaviour and mood ...

Dog Owners: Beware the Water Can Kill Your Dog

Dog owners are warned to steer well clear of stagnant ponds* when catching some late summer sun with their pet. According to a leading veterinary charity, this is ideal weather ...

Chocolate and Marijuana Contribute to Rising Incidents of Pet Poisoning

The number of pets treated for the effects of accidental poisoning is rising sharply, according to leading veterinary charity, PDSA. Since 2002, there has been a startling 73% increase in the ...

300 Dogs a Month Dying From Parvovirus

Preventable dog disease claiming too many lives, says PDSA: Vets from the UK’s leading veterinary charity, PDSA, are warning that the deadly dog infection parvovirus is present and dangerous in ...

Just How Did This Dog EAT The Alphabet?

Six-month old golden Labrador, Jack, ate the entire alphabet of fridge magnets in a midnight snack-attack and had to be rushed to PDSA’s Plymouth PetAid hospital the day after he’d ...

Animal Version of Victoria Cross Medal is Sold for World Record Sum

A PDSA Dickin Medal – the animals’ Victoria Cross – awarded to a World War II search dog during the London Blitz, has today (24 April 2009) sold at auction ...

Hero Pup Knifed by Thug

Toby, a devoted pet Labrador from Barnoldswick has today been presented with the PDSA Certificate for Animal Bravery for protecting his family from a knife wielding burglar, despite being stabbed ...

Easter Holiday Shocker! Creme Eggs Nearly Killed This Dog

Sweet-toothed Labrador, Buster, has made an egg-cellent recovery thanks to PDSA – after he collapsed with chocolate poisoning from wolfing down a dozen chocolate cream eggs! Five-year-old Buster’s owner, Brenda Dawes, ...
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