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The KC's 140th birthday is celebrated in the current issue of Country Life. And it contains an interesting quote from KC Secretary Caroline Kisko.
In 2008, the unflattering BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed prompted a shake-up of KC breed standards, a clampdown on producing dogs with exaggerated characteristics and the reinforcement of the message that only healthy dogs should win prizes. ‘We needed to get a grip,' concedes KC Secretary Caroline Kisko.
This is true enough, of
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bisonGrimes, a photo by russlings on Flickr.NC Zoo bison photo by Anne Grimes, Ayden, NC.
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DSC05705, a photo by russlings on Flickr.NC Zoo bison photo by Anne Grimes, Ayden, NC.
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African horse sickness (AHS) is arguably the most lethal infectious disease of horses. Like Bluetongue virus, AHS virus is an Orbivirus in the Reoviridae family of dsRNA viruses. Also like BTV (and the bunyavirus Schmallenberg virus), it's an arbovirus that is spread between mammalian hosts by Culicoides midges.
African horse sickness: the lungs fill with fluid and the horse essentially dies by drowning. If a horse develops the pulmonary form of
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Ideally, treatment of a hyperthyroid cat with a single dose of radioiodine should restore euthyroidism without inducing hypothyroidism. In other words, the goal of this treatment should be to irradiate and destroy all abnormal thyroid tissue (adenomatous or carcinomatous) but to leave the normal (nonadenomatous) thyroid tissue intact (1-4).The optimal method for determining the amount of radioiodine required for effective treatment in cats remains somewhat controversial. Reported methods to […]
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NikGrimes, a photo by russlings on Flickr.And Anne Grimes captured that too. [Anne Grimes photo]
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giraffeGrimes, a photo by russlings on Flickr.To the giraffe on the feeding deck at Forest Edge at the NC Zoo?Anne Grimes, Ayden, NC had this answer. [Anne Grimes photo]
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waterbuckGrimes, a photo by russlings on Flickr.Enjoyed a recent NC Zoo tour with Anne Grimes, Ayden, NC. She "won'" the tour for her little party in an auction benefiting Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Scotland Neck, NC.Starting an hour earlier than most tours do, and seeing her professional camera gear, I suggested we head straight for the far end of the Watani Grasslands here.This waterbuck photo may have been the very first of a great many Anne took. (Love the "African Plains" first thing in the […]
