Issue #39

Did you know… the most common trigger for dehydration in domestic dogs is a fluid loss from the urinary and/or GI tract (diarrhea), but the second most common and entirely preventable cause of dehydration is being left outside in hot weather without water. If you were anywhere in the US last weekend, you know it was HOT AF! Make sure to keep your pups hydrated! Here’s a lifehack from our friends at @hava_heart

Wild Dog Alert. A new camera with built-in facial recognition software and satellite communication has been designed to help farmers better protect livestock. The technology sends real-time messages when wild dogs are detected on your property.

Tele-vet care for $10/month? A new subscription service will now let you chat with a vet from your smartphone for $10 per month. This telemedicine vet care plan is the latest from Fuzzy Pet Health, a subscription vet care service providing in-home vet visits to subscribers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. So while in-home pet care may take time to properly scale, on-demand vet Q&A is something that can be offered nationwide.

We got the new new! Available until August 12th, here’s the lineup: 🐖 Pork Loin, 🐄 Beef Liver, 🐟 Whole Smelt, 🐄 Beef Aorta, 🦆 Duck Wing, 🐖 Pig Ear 🐶 Super Chew this box: 🐄 Rolled cow skin 🔥 Peep the unboxing!

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Nestlé in talks to buy Canadian pet food maker of Orijen & Acanda for $2 Billion. Nestlé owns all Purina pet food brands, Merrick, Beneful and Friskies among others, and is currently under pressure from investors—activist investor Dan Loeb, in particular—to fix its overall corporate strategy. Champion, too, is currently under fire. Consumers from California, Minnesota, and Florida filed a class-action lawsuit early this year for “false advertising” and “feed law” violations, among other charges. Champion issued a statement that they would not be commenting on rumors or speculation in the market.

Chewy.com launches an online pharmacy. Chewy, an online retailer of pet food and other pet-related products, purchased by PetSmart for $3.3 Billion in the largest online acquisition ever, has recently entered the pet medications market with its own online pharmacy. PetSmart’s physical store locations also include Banfield Vet Hospital and its rival Petco has its own in-store vet center as well.

Criminal probe into dog food with chicken feathers. A federal criminal investigation into companies accused of supplying pet food ingredients adulterated with chicken feathers and other lower quality poultry parts has expanded, and a former Texas state employee who once investigated mislabeled food has pled guilty to adulteration/misbranding of food. While still employed by the state, Gregory McKinney formed and ran a company called Superior Commodities LLC to “replicate” practices he’d once investigated, his plea agreement says.

Dogs trained to save beehives. In Maryland, a state employee is training dogs to inspect hives for harmful bacteria - American foulbrood - that can decimate beehives. Unlike human inspectors, dogs don’t need the hives opened up to check them for foulbrood. They can trot by, sniffing at the comb, and tell if the bacteria have killed off any larvae. Four people working full-time cover less than half of what a dog can.

America’s first dogs vanished after Europeans arrived. The earliest dog remains found in North America were buried nearly 10,000 years ago in what is now Illinois. Essentially all the dogs, outside of the European ones, came from the same Siberian origin population, just at different points in time. But it was the European wave of immigrants that spelled doom for American dogs. According to the largest-ever study of ancient and modern dog DNA, sometime after the 15th century, these ancient American dogs disappeared. European colonists — and the canines they brought with them — all but wiped the early dogs’ genetic signature from Earth, though nobody seems to know why. The most shocking development is that researchers found a relative of America’s original dogs that persists in a bizarre form: a sexually transmitted cancer descended from the tumor of single dog that lived thousands of years ago.

The most hygienic bowl on the market? The antimicrobial HERO Bowl, made from recyclable polypropylene, claims to have 24-hour protection from a technology that works constantly to reduce microbes, such as bacteria, mold and fungi, by up to 99.99% on the protected surface. It's the first of its kind and is made from some seriously clever proven tech that prevents the build-up of up to 99.99% of microbes, including bacteria, mold and fungi.[ Read more here.

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