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Cat

Opinion: Can cats really get or pass on COVID-19, as a report from Belgium suggests?

31 Mar 2020

Should we be concerned about the coronavirus spreading to cats? Not yet, says Dr Sarah Caddy in this article for The Conversation, even after a...

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Pets are a child’s best friend, not their siblings

26 Jan 2017

Children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their brothers or sisters, according to new research from the University...

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Opinion: How to save inbred, short-faced dogs such as pugs and bulldogs from poor health

02 Aug 2016

David Sargan (Department of Veterinary Medicine) discusses the health implications of breeding the perfect pets.

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A toy spaniel, a Pomeranian and a Maltese terrier at a basket – Oil on Canvas by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener 1855

Are you a dog-person, a cat-person, or a bear-person?

16 Sep 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, P is for Pet...

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Feeding time at Battersea Dogs Home. John Charles Dollman, Table d’Hôte at a Dogs Home, 1879.

How the dog found a place in the family home – from the Victorian age to ours

15 May 2015

Dogs have been companions to humans for tens of thousands of years. In a new book, Dr Philip Howell argues that it was the Victorians who ‘invented’...

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A dog called Jasper during the trial

First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs

19 Nov 2012

Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).

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