WASHINGTON — Complaints of dogs and cats injured or killed by flea treatments have increased significantly, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.
Officials said the agency will develop stricter testing and evaluation requirements for flea and tick treatments that are applied to pets’ skin.
It also will begin [...]
Jared Genser was a day away from euthanizing his family dog, Finnegan, when the Washington, D.C. lawyer discovered that the lab’s diagnosis of a painful and deadly bone cancer was wrong.
Jenn Diederich of Riverton, Utah, sent her dog, Ted, for surgery to repair a torn ligament in a right rear leg, only to find [...]
The mixing of coyote and wolf genes allowed the animal to rapidly evolve larger, more powerful jaws, better adapted to preying on whitetail deer. One Massachusetts biologist says the animals deserve a new moniker: coywolves. The genetic mixing is also giving federal regulators headaches as they try to figure out which creatures need protection.
Coyotes are [...]
It wasn’t the cameras and reporters hovering around Lis Feeney that made her nervous today as she waited to be reunited with her 12-year-old dog, Bobo.
Instead, she joked, she feared the cataract surgery performed at Angell Animal Medical Center that returned Bobo’s eyesight would make her unrecognizable to the dog she first got as a [...]
