a tribute to the fastest runner in the dog park
Father’s Day is just around the corner and I found three of the coolest gifts for rugged sports minded Pet Dads. Men are so good at bonding with their four-legged buddies through exercise and recreational activities and these gifts will give your animal loving Pet Dad even more reason to spend time with his favorite fur pal.
As a pet blogger I have the unique opportunity to be introduced to lots of products for pets and today I’m excited to pass along these fun items for Father’s Day.
Like me I bet you’ve never heard of GM1 Gangliosidosis, unless your cat has this horrible inherited disease. It’s a disorder that slowly destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord of young kittens. Siamese and Korat breeds are most susceptible.
While this neurological disease used to be a death sentence, researchers at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine have made outstanding progress to keep them living longer.
There is good news for animals suffering from orthopedic injuries, osteoarthritis and other diseases of the joints thanks to an extraordinary donation from billionaires John and Leslie Malone. The couple donated $42.5 million to Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Big news came out this week from North Carolina State University when a paralyzed dog walked on a treadmill following a clinical trial. The NCSU study tried to get paraplegic dogs walking again with the help of two medications. It’s the kind of news that made me wish I lived closer to North Carolina.
Two years ago when a 10 year-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Browning was diagnosed with a large cancerous tumor on her leg, the standard course of treatment would have been amputation. Lucky for Browning she was enrolled in a one-of-a-kind clinical trial at Washington State University where the venom from a scorpion saved her leg and her life.
