Pets of the Homeless is the only national animal organization focused completely on feeding and providing emergency veterinary care to pets of the homeless. Help Someone Care for Their Best Bud Unconditional Love – Loyalty – Companionship – Protection The economy is healing but the homeless situation is not. Once a person lands in homelessness it is a daily struggle to get out. With...

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. By Dana Scott From Dogs Naturally A few years ago, I dumped out all of my dogs’ fish oil …...

By Karen Graham A contagious canine cancer that conquered the world by spreading between dogs during mating likely arose around 6,000 years ago in Asia and spread around the globe through maritime activities, scientists say. A detailed genetic study, published in the journal Science, reveals some surprising, and even mysterious, findings about canine transmissible venereal tumor — a cancer that has survived for thousands...

A dog can be the life of a party, particularly if you live alone. However, like every other creature, age catches up with dogs, and can hold them back from being as active and jumpy as before. This should not, however, make you give up on your dog. Even at old age, you need to take care of your dog, if anything, more than...

Vet Surgeon News The Animal Health Trust, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge is going to conduct new research to enable the creation of a blood test to identify Flatcoated Retrievers with early stage histiocytic sarcoma. The charity says that although histiocytic sarcoma is rare, it is an aggressive form of cancer which Flatcoated Retrievers are particularly susceptible to. According to the AHT, almost half of...

Oncology Times: August 5, 2019 – Volume 41 – Issue 15 – p 1,7 More than 60 years ago, British physician Denis Parsons Burkitt and his associates achieved one of the signal successes in cancer medicine when they cured children in sub-Saharan Africa with a form of lymphoma by treating them with high doses of the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide. [Note: an article on the...

By Annette Cary A promising new cancer treatment developed in the Tri-Cities has been used on its first commercial patient — a long-haired cat named Drake. Vivos Inc. of Richland has spent three years developing and testing a cancer-killing gel after licensing the technology from Battelle, which developed it at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. So far, it is being used at the...

By Rachel Uranga   Los Angeles Business Journal A Playa Vista-based company offering stem cell storage banks for canines has raised $7 million, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gallant Pet Inc. cryogenically preserves canine stem cells for “future regenerative treatment.” The company claims the treatment can ease pooches’ skin conditions, knee injuries, dry eye, and even hip and joint degeneration....

By Molly Jacobson As editor of The Dog Cancer Survival Guide, I’ve read thousands of emails like the one below. And they break my heart, each time. Over the last decade, I’ve done some deep thinking about the guilt that comes (Inevitably! For all of us!) when our dog passes away. So if you’re asking “was there anything I could have done for my...