A new survey has found that pet owners would be more likely to quit smoking
to safeguard their cat or dog's health than their own.
Research by the Henry Ford Centre for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
in Detroit found that 28 per cent of smokers would be motivated to quit
if it was harming their pet.
The researchers claim that few smokers realise their habit has a dangerous
effect on their pets, with a number of studies linking smoke exposure
with lymphoma and nasal and lung cancer in cats and dogs.
Advertisements promoting the adverse health effects on smoking on pets
should be more common-place, added the team.
Dr Sharon Milberger, study leader, told the BBC: "Two out of three
people in the US have pets and pet owners love their pets so it could
be an interesting way of reaching out to people."
A recent study by Azuba University in Japan showed that playing with
a puppy can help to give pet owners a hit of the hormone oxytocin, which
has been called the 'cuddle chemical' and is linked to infant care.
'Socks' survives a month trapped in a container
A cat has defied the odds and survived in an industrial container for
a month.
'Socks', from Arbroath in Angus, kept himself alive by licking condensation
from the sides of the metal container, reports the BBC.
He was discovered by an electrician on Tuesday having not been seen since
13th May.
Michelle Maher, owner of the 11-month-old cat had put posters up around
the area, but feared the worst after no sightings were reported.
"I didn't think he was coming back at all. I thought I'd lost him,
I even got a new kitten because I thought he had gone," she said.
Ms Mayer said that despite being underweight, Socks was going to make
a full recovery. Sharyn Wood, co-ordinator of Cats Protection's Arbroath
branch, said: "We got Socks to a vet straight away, who said it is
an absolute miracle he has survived."
The news comes as a cat in Guisborough, east Cleveland, survived after
being hit by 50 shotgun pellets, reports the Northern Echo.
Pets 'never had it so good in India'
Pets are having the time of their life in India with the opening of grooming
salons and the launch of special dog products, according to one source.
The Times of India reports that there is a growing trend for pet pampering
in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, fuelled by owners' desire to enter their
pretty poodles in competitions.
Yashodra Hemchandra, owner of a salon in Bangalore, told the newspaper
that the desire to doll up dogs come from a general love for animals.
"A clean dog equals a happy dog. As dog owners are busy, we take
care of their dogs," she explained.
"About 90 per cent of Indians are animal lovers, but they don’t
have the time to groom their pets."
Harbani Singh, a south Delhi resident, said that having the best-looking
pooch had become an obsession among his friends and neighbours.
All of his peers are checking their pets into grooming
salons and so it is a case of keeping up with the Jones, he said.
Meanwhile this week pet owners in the US are celebrating Take Your Dog
to Work Day' in a bid to raise awareness of animal adoption.
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