Misc Bytes

Declawing

Many loving cat owners don’t realize it, but declawing is amputation of the last joint of the toe. Your cat needs her toes intact, not only for her defense but for her comfort and natural cat agility. There are many ways to keep your cat from destroying your house.

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Play with your cat

Why should you play with your cat? For one thing, cats need the mental and physical exercise. Cats were built to spend a lot of their time hunting for food and hiding from predators, but in their modern domesticated lives they sleep a lot and chew and scratch on things they aren’t supposed to.

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Trakr the 9/11 hero dog cloned

Trakr, the rescue dog who located the last survivor in the rubble following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has been successfully cloned and his owner, James Symington, has received the five puppies cloned from Trakr.

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Can cats eat people food?

Safe snacks include commercial cat treats, cooked vegetables, cheese, small bits of cooked meat or cooked eggs, cooked poultry, and liquid from water-packed meats and fish. If you give him any meat or poultry or eggs, be sure they are cooked

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Cat Safety Tips

When it comes to what cats could get into, it’s impossible to make a complete list. But here are some things you may not have thought of. Making your home safer for a cat or kitten may seem like a lot of trouble, but remember – your kitten is like a little toddler, except one who can jump up onto countertops and climb the draperies!

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Flea allergy in cats

With flea allergy, often cats will pull out their hair, especially on the back half of the body. They often do it when they are not in our sight, so we owners may think that the hair is just failing to grow. And apparently in cats with flea allergy, you may never even see a flea

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Study: For those who have not had a previous stroke or heart attack, the risk of daily aspirin may not be worth it

In the May 30th edition of The Lancet, there’s a new study which definitely increases the debate about whether it is worth the risk of internal bleeding to give daily aspirin to otherwise healthy people.

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Evernote: Capture and sync notes – even tweet them!

synchronize your Evernote notes to the web and to any other desktop, phone, etc., so that you have access to your notes from whatever machine you want to use. The text in images is searchable, whether you’re using EverNote online or off.

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Study: Unvaccinated kids are at high risk of contracting whooping cough

Children of parents who refuse whooping cough immunizations are at high risk for pertussis infection relative to vaccinated children.

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Study: Family history does not affect risk of breast cancer with HRT

Scientists at University of Rochester Medical Center have published a study in the journal Epidemiology which shows that the risk of developing breast cancer due to taking hormone replacement therapy appears to be the same, whether or not a woman has a family history of the disease. Family history and hormone replacement therapy have each [...]

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