Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, September 7, 2023. Link.
Most read post(s) from the September 7th AHD Bulletin –
- 7 dangers dogs may face in the fall. Link.
- Leading behavioral change. Link.
- Cryptosporidium parasite is endemic to even the tidiest dairy farms. Link.
- Health management of early weaned beef calves. Link. Views of this post from the August 31st Bulletin doubled this week.
Place keeper: 2023 Veterinary Conferences provided by Galaxy Vets. Link.
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Fake spider webs are deadly to wildlife (Don’t buy them)
Source: The Garden Magazine, September 11, 2023. Link. Tom Nelson explains why fake spider web decorations, often used as Halloween decorations can have negative impacts on the environment and wildlife in various ways. Entanglement is the top risk to wildlife.
NRF says credit card swipe fees hamper small retailers
Source: National Retail Federation, September 6, 2023. Link. The primary impact of high swipe fees is higher prices for consumers. But small retailers say excessive swipe fees are unfair and also contribute to hiring challenges.
Be there in a jiffy. How long is that?
Source: Interesting Facts. Link. For some scientists a jiffy is more than a blink of an eye. Some physicists have defined a jiffy as the time it takes light to travel 1 femtometer so using this definition each second contains about three hundred thousand billion billion jiffys.
Wombats unique digestive tract forms poop cubes
Source: Smithsonian, February 8, 2021. Link. Bare-nosed wombats can excrete four to eight scat pieces at a time and may poop up to 100 cubes a day. Scientists suspect that the wombat evolved this unique trait to mark its territory on rocks and logs with poop that won’t easily roll away.
Songs about dogs
Source: COWGIRL, September 8, 2023. Link. Paige Brandon shares a playlist of songs that include our canine companions.
Alaska cat named Leo reunited with owners almost month after their home collapsed into flood-swollen river.
Source: CBS News, September 6, 2023. Link. A pair of Alaska teachers needed good news after they lost nearly all their possessions when their house collapsed into a river swollen by a glacial-outburst flood and their cat went missing.