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Interesting Facts: How and Why Cats Wash
As an adult, a cat washes itself with its paw after sleeping, going to the toilet, walking down the street, or communicating with a person.
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Important to Know: How to Understand that Dogs Have Increased Anxiety
Refusal of commands, toileting in the wrong places, aggression, picking up garbage, increased salivation - these can be symptoms of stress. Short-term stress does not pose a danger to the dog’s body.
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Interesting Facts: Which Animals Can Remember Words
Dogs are able to quickly, after just four repetitions, remember new words if they are introduced to them in the context of communication and play with their owner. At the same time, the animals retain the words in memory for at least two minutes: this ability was demonstrated by two dogs who had been accustomed to such training since childhood.
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English Bulldog: Health Problems
As noted in an article in the journal Canine Medicine and Genetics, for the well-being of English Bulldogs, it is necessary to reduce the requirements for the breed's exterior.
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Interesting Facts: How Cats Respond to Their Name
Japanese scientists have found that domestic cats can distinguish their own names from other words that people say, and even the names of other cats that live with them. The researchers, whose work was published in the journal Scientific Reports, used the habituation-withdrawal method, which is often used in experiments with children.
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Interesting Facts: Why Animals Repeat After Humans
In strictly controlled experiments, experts discovered that a Japanese cat named Ebisu imitated the actions of its owner, such as touching a box with its paw or rubbing its head against it.
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When cats gain weight: Keep your pet healthy
Feral cats don't get fat - they simply can't consume more energy than they need to hunt and survive. Meanwhile, this problem is pretty common among domestic cats, because their owners simply love them too much.
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Bulldog: Breed Features
As noted in an article in the journal Canine Medicine and Genetics, for the well-being of English Bulldogs, it is necessary to reduce the requirements for the breed's exterior.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Feel Human Fear
A study of 36 people and four dogs found that pets could detect nervous tension in humans using their sense of smell and could distinguish between the smell of stress and the smell of a calm stranger on the first try, the authors of the paper report in PLoS One.
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Improving dog adoptions: A new study
Shelter animals need love and support that they can only get by adoption. While dog adoptions have become more popular recently, lots of people still prefer to buy dogs instead of adopting them.
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Dachshund: Breed Features
Dachshunds are very smart and quick-witted, one might say intelligent dogs.
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Pet's mental issues: Keep your pets healthy
Not only humans, but also their pets can have mental issues sometimes. Your cat or dog can't say that it's sad or anxious, but its behavior and body language can highlight that something goes wrong.
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Signs that your pet has a headache: Keep your pets healthy
Pets can't say anything when they feel pain - but they can show it by their behavior and reactions. If you're careful enough, then you can notice the smallest signs and understand that something goes wrong quickly.
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Important to Know: How to Feed a Puppy
Up to 2 months, the puppy should be fed 6 times a day; at 2–3 months - 5 times a day; from the 4th month - 4 times a day, from the 6th month - 3 times, and closer to the year the dog is transferred to two meals a day. In this case, it is advisable to maintain equal intervals between feeding the puppy to avoid excessive stress on the gastrointestinal tract.
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How cats understand your mood: Know more about your pets
Cats might not be as socially intelligent as dogs, but they can also understand their owners' mood and mental state well. The thing is, cats and dogs often pay attention to different details of your behavior to understand that something goes wrong.
Kate Yakimchuk cats mood intelligence Animals 18 November 2023
Signs of dementia in dogs: A new study
Recent information suggests that as dogs age, their mental abilities slow down along with their physical movements. Scientists found that measuring the walking speed of senior dogs could be a simple way to keep track of their health and detect declines in their neurological functions.
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Interesting Facts: Which Animals See themselves in the Mirror
Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist and marine mammal specialist at Hunter College, has conducted experiments on both dolphins and elephants and believes that both show signs of self-recognition in mirrors.
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Interesting Facts: Why Cats Like Catnip
Cats love to rub and roll in the leaves of catnip (Nepeta cataria), and actinidia polygama, or matatabi, which grows in Japan, China, Korea, and the Russian Far East, causes a similar reaction. Much of this feline behavior is due to the fact that the plant contains iridoids, which help repel mosquitoes and other insects.
Diana Dashkevich cats pets facts Animals 17 November 2023
Pet apps can be dangerous: A new study
Most pet owners have already seen multiple apps designed to entertain your pets. The problem is, some of them can't be trusted - these apps collect and leak their users' data.
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Interesting Facts: How a Dog's Brain is Different from a Human's
It turned out that the brains of pets, like the brains of children, react more strongly to speech directed specifically at them: in such cases, a person changes his intonation: his voice becomes higher, the range of tones becomes wider, and phrases become shorter. In addition, the dogs were better able to perceive female speech addressed to them or children. The work was published in Communications Biology.
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