Happy World Spay Day: Time To Get It Done World Spay Day is observed on the fourth Tuesday in February every year. In 2021, that falls on February 23rd. It's…
Spaying Your Female Dog: What You Need To Know A spay surgery prevents female dogs from getting pregnant by removing both the ovaries and the uterus. Afterward, female dogs…
Dogs’ (And Men’s) Fertility At Risk With Chemical Pollutants In The Home Researchers from Nottingham traced a concerning decline in fertility among human males. They were able to correlate it to the…
Cropping Out Cruelty: Ear Cropping And Tail Docking Is Useless And Cruel Despite arguments and past practices to the contrary, cropping a dog’s ears and docking his tail are cosmetic surgeries with…
Why mandatory spay and neuter laws don’t work Editorial: “Okay, so we just force people to spay and neuter their pets to solve the overpopulation problem — that’ll…
National Shelter Appreciation Week 2013 Established by the Humane Society in 1996, this week encourages people to get involved with local animal rescues and shelters;…
Adoption can be just a conversation away After almost unwittingly buying a puppy mill pooch, perspective adopters do their homework and patiently seek out the perfect dog…
Coming soon: Non-surgical dog neutering Getting a male dog fixed just got easier, thanks to a new procedure that neuters the animal via a syringe…
Houston’s dirty, furry secret It’s the largest city in the Lone Star State, and Houston’s stray dog and cat population is out of control;…
Spay Day brings awareness to pet overpopulation problem An estimated 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized in shelters each year -- a number that could be reduced…
Former ‘Bachelor’ star to help control dog population Prince Lorenzo Borghese isn’t just a former star of the reality-TV series The Bachelor, he’s also a prominent animal-rights advocate.
Dog birth control I've heard about birth control pills and implants for dogs. Are these safe alternatives to spaying and neutering?