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Dangers And Risks Of Eating Meat - New Evidence

Eating meat is the biggest health hazard today. If you are squeamish, don’t read the rest of this hub. But if you do manage to get to the end of it, you too will probably decide to give up meat as it is produced for supermarkets for your own safety. The dangers of meat consumption are still widely ignored. Many of us really don’t want to know about the real dangers of meat consumption, but if you don’t want to get sick and obese you better be informed.

55 comments    food animals obesity
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What to do when you experienced dog bite

Dog bite was the last thing in mind when I conducted a personal survey with our barangay captain who happened to be my third cousin. The 'silent dog' is dangerous, especially when she has sired several puppies. She's territorial in nature so, any 'invader' that will pass her domain will experience some hiss or snarl sounds or an attack one will never forget. Just like what happened to me.

8 comments    pets dogs dog
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The Ethiopian Wolf - The Most Endangered Animal in the Dog Family

Only about 500 Ethiopian wolves exist. The Ethiopian wolf is the only wolf in Africa and lives in packs at high elevations.

24 comments    iucn ewcp ethiopian wolf pups
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What Is Rabies and How to Manage?

Rabies is a 100% fatal viral disease caused by bites of rabid animals. Rabies has global distribution, but countries like Japan, Ireland, UK, Spain, Norway, Portugal, Norway, and Sweden are considered to be free from rabies. It is prevalent in...

14 comments    rabies dog bite dog bites
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Physiology of Rabies

Rabies is derived from the Latin word rabies , meaning “madness.” Rabies is a central nervous system disease and is almost always fatal. The cause of rabies is a negative stranded RNA virus called Rabies Virus (RV). There are five genes that...

3 comments    virus animal infection
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Taking Dogs To Thailand

When we decided to retire to Thailand we had a major quandary about our two beautiful Field Labrador bitches, Pippa and Tessa. They were 4 and 10 years old respectively, so not skittish puppies. They’d been part of our working life on the farm...

13 comments    travel water vacation
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Risks of Rabies from Bats

Eighteen months ago, I reported on my parents' encounter with a bat in my hub entitled, Displaced Bats: The Latest Public Health Concern? That situation prompted my parents to seek treatment and receive the rabies vaccine series. Fortunately, my...

0 comments    bats bat rabies
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Animal Attack! The Ten Scariest Animals on Earth!

Animal attacks happen every single day in all corners of the Earth. It is inevitable that where people and animals overlap, there will be animal attacks. Most of these animal attacks are due to people either toying with, or otherwise messing with...

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When Skunks Attack Your Dog

It's an attack that changed our lives forever. It happened exactly one week ago at approximately 10:30pm. My wife and I had just finished watching a DVD and we were about to go to bed. I knew our 100lb, best friend in the world, Kiera (our...

19 comments    home dogs house
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HOW TO TACKLE THE STRAY DOG MENACE?

The city of Bangalore is known as India’s Hi-Tech city or the Garden city or the more familiar term, the ‘Silicon Valley of India’. But lately its residence dared to rename it as the city of stray dogs, when its newspapers started reporting at...

64 comments    pets india adoption
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