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Pet Owners Can Beat The Recession

To help UK pets and their owners survive the recession, leading veterinary charity, PDSA, has produced a simple 'how to' guide, with tips on credit crunch pet care.

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Coping With Sweet Itch

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As we enter the sweet itch season, we asked equestrian expert Celia Gadd, Brand Manager for Equivet Animal Care Products Ltd, which provides products to help horses cope with this condition, to give us the low-down on preventing infection and treating the symptoms of this incurable disease.

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Summer Surge Swamps RSPCA

The RSPCA gives us answers to the most common seasonal queries to its helpline, as it struggles to cope with the volume of calls.

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Could You Adopt A Rescued Horse?

The RSPCA is seeking special new owners for 17 of the horses rescued from horse dealer James Gray's farm near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in January 2008. Read on if you think you could help.

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Veterinary Breakthrough Brings Hope For Pets And Humans

We investigate how man's best friend may have paved the way for new surgical techniques to help humans after a UK vet performed a groundbreaking operation on a dog with cancer in Surrey earlier this year.

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Can You Help Solve Dolphin Mysteries?

If you're out on a boat or taking photos by the ocean this summer, keep a look out for dolphins and be part of a marine research project.

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Learn To Speak Guinea Pig

So many of us have guinea pigs as they're excellent pets for children, and now a lovely new book about them has captured our imagination. In the following extract from Mini Encyclopedia of Guinea Pigs – breeds and care, we learn what all those high pitched noises mean.

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