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Animal activists across the city have planned to carry out awareness campaigns about stray dog behaviors and the benefits of community feeding of strays. While claiming that Pune Municipal Corporation has failed to execute the Animal Birth Control programme (ABC). They said volunteers have individually undertaken hundreds of sterilization drives …

Dog lovers, take note! Scientists have developed educational touchscreen games for older pooches that can slow down mental deterioration and help create positive emotions. Spoiling old dogs in their twilight years by retiring them to the sofa and forgiving them their stubbornness or disobedience, does not do our four-legged friends …

A dog has been reunited with her family after 10 years. Abby went missing from Pennsylvania, United States. Her owner Debra Suierveld said that they thought she was dead after missing for so long. According to CBS Pittsburgh, The black Labrador was last seen when she was playing with Ms …

A group of students from IIT-M have taken responsibility of sterilizing stray dogs in the campus due to the recent wildlife deaths in the IIT-Madras campus. The group calls itself – Friends of Animals, and is helping the institute implement the animal birth control (ABC) programme which will target sterilization …

Recently, the Dallas-based southwest Airlines rescued sixty-two dogs and cats left behind during a hurricane and brought them to the US mainland for relocation. After months of attempt, Southwest Airlines has successfully completed a relief flight that brought 6,350 kgs of supplies to the Caribbean island. On return flight to …

“Bones aren’t a great treat for your dog, says FDA (US Food and Drug Administration).” Everyone wants to pamper their dogs. They usually give treat to dogs to pamper them. But if you’re doing so with bone treats, you’re actually risking its life. The US Food and Drug Administration has …

Two months after a historic hurricane battered Houston, Texas, one of the many dogs whose life was saved by Canadian volunteers has found a new home in Toronto. Out of one of them, a blind dog named ‘San Antonio, (SA)’ made the long road trip to Toronto alongside more than …

Recently, a 2-year old starving dog was rescued by TOLFA (Tree Of Life For Animals) in Ajmer, Rajasthan. TOLFA is an animal hospital and rescue centre set up in 2005, in Pushkar, Rajasthan, by a British veterinary nurse – Rachel Wright, hailing from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. How the rescue happened? A …

We are all excited to celebrate Holi with our loved ones. However, sometimes during the excitement of the festival, we often forget that our furry friends might not like being colored with Holi colors. The chemicals in the colors irritate their skin and if they lick it, they might ingest …

Recently, the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has issued an order directing Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to remove ban on entry of pet dogs in local public parks of the city. No more restriction for pet dogs in public parks The guidelines issued by AWBI has been forwarded by Maneka …