Last week’s most read posts
- Traditional recruiting is broken. 6 ways to reimagine it. Link.
Last week’s AHD Bulletin
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Link.
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How long is too long to leave a dog alone?
Source: Whole Dog Journal, January 10, 2020. Link.
10 to 12 hours is too long for a dog to be alone in a single stretch.” – Nancy Tucker, CDBC, CPDT-KA
How air quality impacts horse health
Source: The Horse, April 8, 2022. Link. (paywall) Extreme events like wildfires aside many other sources and irritants can compromise a horse’s respiratory health.
Kerns, let’s raise our expectations for dog food
Source: Whole Dog Journal, February 23, 2022. Link. Unlike in human nutrition, where nutrient levels are reported as a percentage of the recommended daily allowance, no RDA exists for dogs; there is no consensus on target or ideal nutrient levels for dogs, asserts Nancy Kerns.
A woman cloned her pet after it died. But it’s not a copycat.
Source: The Washington Post, April 11, 2022. Link. Chai’s body had not yet turned cold when Anderson remembered a conversation about the Texas-based ViaGen Pets, one of the few companies worldwide that clones pets. The next morning, she called them.
The truth about chickens and cannibalism
Source: Hobby Farms, April 1, 2022. Link. As long as a healthful living environment is provided for chickens there should be no worries about cannibalism in a flock. Under negative conditions, they may start picking at the combs, feathers, toes and vents of lower-ranked birds in the flock.
Coke bets on premium milk to boost declining category
Source: The Bullvine, April 11, 2022. Link. Coca-Cola’s entry into the milk case in the U.S. is touted as a premium milk product. Fairlife says is lactose free and has 50 percent more protein, 30 percent more calcium and 50 percent less sugar than regular milk.
PHOTOS: Pythons, dwarf caimans, bull calf among 31 animals recovered from Hitchcock home filled with garbage
Source: KPRC, March 15, 2022. Link. Animal Cruelty Investigators recovered 31 animals, including a dwarf caiman and two pythons, from a Hitchcock home filled with garbage debris and animal remains, according to the Houston SPCA. – Kudos to the animal health pros helping with this rescue!
Texans, meet your adorable, bloodthirsty new neighbors
Source: Texas Monthly, April 7, 2002. Link. (limited free views) Mike Bodenchuk is out for blood. Every month, the Texas state director of the Wildlife services division of the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service travels from his office in San Antonio down to livestock sale barns, ranches, and/or feedlots in South Texas, where he carefully scans the cattle around him for crimson rivulets snaking down their backs, necks, or ankles.