In keeping with both March being Poison Prevention Awareness Month and the arrival of Spring (yes, it’s out there somewhere, rumored to be March 20th this year), we thought this would be a perfect time to publish this great article on creating a dog-friendly (and safe) garden. Here are some excellent tips on how to create a garden both you and your furry companion...

K9 Veterans Day is celebrated on March 13th, which is the date that the US Army K9 Corps was founded in 1942; a day to honor and commemorate the service and sacrifices of American military, police, and rescue dogs, Border Patrol K9s, Customs K9s, Secret Service K9s, Airport Service K9s and FBI K9s, who daily work to save and protect Americans and our country. It’s...

[This kind of hydrotherapy, for example,  can be beneficial to dogs who have suffered from osteosarcoma and have had to have a limb removed.] By Karin Brulliard The Washington Post An unusual aquatic center inside a suburban Maryland strip mall has five narrow pools and several swimmers of varying abilities, but only one stroke: The dog paddle. At the edge of the largest pool,...

Webster County Citizen Saturday, March 10, 2018 2:40 pm | Updated: 2:41 pm, Sat Mar 10, 2018. According to recent reports, more than 107 million cans of dog food have been recalled because they contained trace amounts of pentobarbital, the tranquilizer used to put down sick or injured animals. Tim Evans, an associate professor of veterinary pathobiology and head of toxicology in the Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (VMDL) at...

Providing good nutrition is a proactive way to help your dog maintain a strong immune system. It’s certainly no guarantee he or she will not get cancer, but it helps in the fight. And maintaining good nutrition while a dog is fighting cancer will help in the battle against the disease. We found this article by Simi (it’s long but worth the read) that...

Global Animal (DOGS) Dogs possess an impressively strong sense of smell. They are used as service dogs because of this particular ability, which helps in bomb detection, disease identification, and so on. They can even smell the amino acids that are absent from their diets and may push aside the food bowl. Quite recently, the talk of the town was that dogs could smell cancer...

Disclaimer The Puppy Up Foundation does not endorse nor recommend any particular product, service, or treatment. We offer  information strictly for educational and/or informational purposes. We believe it is the pet owner’s responsibility to do the research and draw his or her own conclusions. From Clinician’s Brief Rebecca Remillard, DVM, PhD, DACVN, Veterinary Nutritional Consultations Michelle Evason, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM), Rayne Clinical Nutrition February...

March 6, 2018, University of California, Los Angeles From Phys.Org UCLA engineers and scientists have engineered a type of synthetic protein—a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, that responds to soluble protein targets. The advance shows great promise for helping the body’s immune system seek out and destroy cancer because it could boost the effectiveness of immunotherapies against solid tumors that are otherwise highly resistant...

[A Veterinarian’s Perspective] The Telegraph By Pete Wedderburn If you’ve ever lost a much loved pet, you’ll know that the depth of grief can be real and perhaps surprising. Much as you may try to rationalise that you have “only” lost a pet, the truth is that you are grieving for a companion, a friend and a family member. The emotions that are experienced...