With the main holiday season upon us, many pet lovers will be taking their 4-legged friends with them. Besides packing your own things including a first aid kit, it’s advisable to pack a first aid kit for your pet too. Then you’re prepared if your dog cut itself, gets heat stroke, burns, insect stings.
The Blue Cross have a comprehensive website article dedicated to covering what you need in your pets First Aid Kit.
From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.
‘Canine Brucellosis, this is relevant to anyone in the UK that has adopted a dog from overseas .. please read
There have been a number of reports of some veterinary Clinics in the UK that any one that has brought a dog into the UK from overseas. They are now insisting it is tested for Brucellosis before they are willing to treat it .. I have attached a link below from an article from the British Veterinary Association recommending protocols ti be put in place ..
This will also include breeders importing dogs and possibly people who travel overseas with their dogs..
My concern is your dog needs emergency treatment and it is delayed until the blood results are back, it may be too late.
Asking some of our adopters it seems that the private practices are not making this request but the bigger practices that are owned by companies are doing so. Even dogs that have been in the UK for a number of years with no symptoms.
This is what my galgo Polar died from. The lumps appear very quickly so don’t delay if you find one on your dog.
This is a precis of an article which appeared in my online copy of The Olive Press.
The Valencian parliament has approved a new regional animal welfare law which is tougher than recently-passed national legislation.
Penalties of up to 45,000 euros for very serious cases of animal cruelty
Breeding and sale of pets restricted to authorised professionals.
Also includes hunting dogs who inthis instance are classified as pets.
Valencian agriculture minister Isaura Navarro – guarantees the rights of animals.
Classifies animals as ‘sentient beings’ and not just pets.
Adoption prioritise. Registration and identifiation of animals required – owners have 6 months to register them.
From Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert
Adopting doesn’t make you a better person.
This is one of those posts that is likely to create controversy. And they may rain criticism on us, we know it. But it is absolutely necessary.
The last few weeks have been especially difficult. In addition to ending the hunting season and receiving dogs and more dogs daily, the situation is complicating for a reason that creates sadness, and anger at the same time: the abandonment of dogs that had already been previously adopted.
You can’t imagine the number of calls, emails, comments and messages on networks that often come to us like this “My personal situation has changed, and I can no longer have dogs… He has an illness and we can’t assume the costs… “We moved and our landlord, doesn’t accept pets.. “We’ve had a kid and the dogs all of a sudden are behaving strangely… Can you please take care of the dogs? “
In the UK, with more people adopting dogs during lockdown, the number of dog walkers has increased. This ‘profession’ is totally unregulated, anyone can set up as a dog walker which can have disastrous results, as happened last week (Jan 2023) in Caterham, Surrey, where a dog walker was walking 8 dogs at the same time.
Reports state that the 8 dogs included 2 daschund, a cockapoo (mongrel by any other name!) collie and a Leonberger, none of the breeds on the Dangerous Dogs list. What a contrast between the dogs, and most of them were from different households. Personally, I fail to see how one person can walk 8 dogs of such a diverse range in size and temperament. Add to this, the woman was walking them on a public common, rather than in an enclosed area or on a private field.
Our blind podenco Bo(celli) has cloudy eyes which the vet puts down to an eye infection which wasn’t treated. Well, we can believe that of Spanish hunters, can’t we – why pay vet fees on a dog when they can just go out and get another! He is amazing in the way he finds his way around, he can see shadows, looks at us as we approach him, and just this last week he’s ventured from the kitchen along the short hallway into the lounge to spend the evening asleep on the hearth rug with Rosie.
This link takes you to an interesting article on the subject of cloudy eyes in dogs.
