If your dog is continually scratching, biting and licking at itself, and is driving you crazy with its self-absorbed antics, take comfort.
You are not alone. This article will explain the six major reasons why dogs and cats will itch and scratch.
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]]> Whether you have or may have MS, or care about someone who does, finding the right information for you is an important step. Learn the facts about MS: what it is, who gets it and why, what symptoms it can cause, and how it's diagnosed and treated.
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]]> The devastating effects of climate change are also accelerating sea level rise and small island nations are preparing evacuation plans to guarantee the survival of their populations.

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]]> Eating disorders afflict millions of people, thousands of which will die from them yearly. There is good news though, eating disorders can be beaten. You do not have to be a prisoner to this anymore. You have the power within yourself to beat this and you
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]]> Claims of animal abuse gets two people kicked out of the Colorado State Fair.The Calhan Big Cat Sanctuary director and assistant director were asked to leave the fair, when they spoke up about the alleged abuse.Nick Sculac has been taking care of animals
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]]> Take the generic drug clonidine for high blood pressure? Double-check that you didn't leave the drugstore with Klonopin for seizures, or the gout medicine colchicine
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]]> The Shar-Pei mix came in June 12. He was adopted and then brought back to the Frederick County Animal Control Center after about a month.

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This year
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]]> A wolf pack surrounded three joggers and attacked one of their dogs in the latest of a series of bold attacks near Alaska's largest city. A dog on a chain also was killed Thursday and a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the same p
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Two dogs are dead and the Department of Fish and Game reports wolves are the killers.
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]]> National Threatened Species Day is held on September 7 each year to highlight
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]]> The following is a simple breakdown of dog & cat CPR. It's written for the average pet owner and in plain language. It uses the common accepted approach to pet cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to excepted standards of Pet First Aid courses throu
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]]> A weakened Hurricane Gustav stormed ashore in a deserted coastal area just west of New Orleans, a near miss for the nearly deserted city still haunted by the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina.

Water spilled over the top of levees protecting New Orleans
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]]> Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been feted by Russian media for saving a television crew from an attack by a siberian tiger in the wilds of the country's far east.

Mr Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the c
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]]> I know for a fact there is a right way and an incorrect way to dispose of the American flag….. and throwing it away isn’t the right way.
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]]> Your faithful friend stays by your side most every day and night - so when it comes time to book your next family flight, why not take him along?
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]]> MANATEE COUNTY | Sheriff's officials are calling it a local record: an Ellenton woman was jailed Saturday on her 10th drunken-driving arrest.


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]]> Few people know that there is a media monopoly in the hands of a few families and global corporations.
Cancer is "big business" and they will sacrifice your life in the process.
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]]> Okay...I bet a lot of us have made at least ONE of these stupid moves at one time or another - hopefully in our ignorant youth...or then again, maybe I'm just projecting - LOL! ENJOY and CONFESS, you sinners!
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]]> Irena Sendler, a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is credited with saving 2,500 Polish Jews from The Holocaust.
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]]> Learn about the different types of worms in dogs and cats... roundworms,
tapeworms,
hookworms,
whipworms. Other intestinal parasites such as giardia and coccidia are displayed. Your veterinarian can check your pet's stool sample to be certain pets
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]]> It's called American Drug War: The Last White Hope. Thanks to Nicky for alerting me to this horrifying expose.
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]]> On the first anniversary of the equine influenza outbreak, the horse breeding industry is warning that another outbreak is likely unless further steps are taken to keep the disease at bay.
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]]> The loss of a baby whale that was euthanised near Sydney yesterday has led to a call to save the mammals in both Australian and international waters. Liberal environment spokesman Greg Hunt
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]]> Philip Hoare began his writing career as the biographer of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward. More recently, his work has turned into something harder to categorise: amazing feats of history and imagination that take you to places within yourself - never mi
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]]> Look deep into her eyes ... Is she sad or do we just think so? Many scientists now believe that animals feel emotions too.
A three-month-old baby died in its mother’s arms earlier this month. For hours the mother, Gana, gently shook and stroked her son C
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]]> The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider
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]]> Poachers in Congo have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa's oldest national park this year as China buys more ivory, the park's director said on Friday.

Rwandan rebels have killed seven Savannah elephants in the past 10 days alone in the Virunga
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]]> The Josephine County Sheriff is looking for the people who kidnapped eleven dogs from the county's animal shelter Friday night.

Four puppies are dead, three found their way back to the shelter and four are still missing.
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]]> Dubai: Roo burger anyone? Instead of beef scientists have suggested that kangaroo meat could be an appropriate protein substitute while helping to protect the earth's fragile ozone layer.

Methane gas released by flatulent cattle is actually one of the
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A 42-year-old woman was yesterday charged with the double murder of Ken Keyte, 86, and his 71-year-old wife Margaret,
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]]> PORTLAND, Ore. – First-time elephant mother Rose-Tu gave birth to a 286-pound male elephant calf just before 4 p.m. Saturday, but all did not go as planned. In fact, there were two big surprises. The first was that Rose-Tu had a male calf instead of a fem
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]]> Honey bees are crucial to producing about one-third of all the food we eat,but colony collapse disorder is devastating hives across the country.
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]]> UK scientists say they have found a marker for aggressive bowel cancers needing the most treatment.
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]]> Some of you may remember Cola, the pitbull that was left abandoned in a house at 3405 N. Michigan, Saginaw, MI for more than a year after his owner, Jaime S. McGregor, moved out and left him.
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]]> A dirty dozen of non-native species that are most likely to harm Britain's rivers and canals have been named and shamed by British Waterways.


They include former pets such as the red-eared terrapin and pesky garden invaders like Japanese knotweed an
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]]> Talk about your one-horse town. This burg of 1,084 souls is just that. But some folks don't want that distinction. They want an aging horse named Peter Rabbit, who lives in a pasture in town, gone for good. Other folks say the horse should
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]]> Cheeta the Chimp is still alive and kicking. Born in Liberia on April 9th 1932 he made his film debut with Johnny Weissmuller in the first talking version of Tarzan the Ape Man the same year and retired from films after completing
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]]> I have been researching the purported genetic near-identity between humans and chimps - asserted as the "scientific" basis for the Great Ape Project - and found (unsurprisingly) that the entire advocacy line that "humans and chimps
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]]> California public schools soon will be planning "gay day" celebrations every May 22 unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the legislation. Thursday the California Assembly approved AB 2567, which designates May 22 as "Harvey
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