Why Dog Eyes Glow at Night
Posted by Clare Bristow | 7 Comments
Have you ever noticed your dog's eyes glowing at night, and wondered why they do that?
At the back of their eyes dogs have a mirror-like layer of cells called the tapetum lucidum.
The job of the tapetum lucidum is to improve your dogs vision in dim light, and it does this by reflecting light back to the retina.
The more light the retina receives the more information it has to work with to translate that light into images (that's a very simplistic version of how our eyes work!).
So when your dog's eyes are glowing, what you're seeing is light being reflected by the tapetum lucidum.
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Winter Dog Tips
Posted by Clare Bristow | 5 Comments
This month I'm going to focus on providing some cold weather protection tips for our dogs.
Over the next four weeks I'll be looking at dog paw care, grooming, how to keep our dogs safe and warm whether they live inside or outside the house, tips on how to give our dogs a good work out despite the weather, dealing with frostbite and hypothermia and some specific winter hazards to watch out for.
Depending on where you live, winter can mean sub zero temperatures, reasonably mild humid conditions or anything in between these extremes - but wherever you are, you need to be aware of how colder weather can affect your dog's health.
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Pet Food Recall - What Actually Happened
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Back in March Menu Foods was the first company to recall its pet food products, and shortly afterwards many other companies followed suit.
Since March the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has received over 17,000 complaints from people whose pets suffered kidney problems or died after eating pet food that was on the recall list.
After looking at 60 million containers of recalled pet food, veterinarians have identified two chemicals that they believe were responsible for the kidney disease and deaths.
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