The Worlds Grumpiest Cat
October 3rd, 2012Daily Paws Picture of the Day: Adorable Pup
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Daily Paws Picture of the Day: Can’t hear you!
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Cute & Adorable Baby Animals in Cups!
October 1st, 2012WARNING: Cuteness overload! For those who can’t stand the cuteness, better not see these pictures of adorable baby animals in cups. It’s too cute!
Daily Paws Picture of the Day: Cute & Adorable Maltese!
October 1st, 2012Daily Paws for Columbus Ohio
The results are in….readin Daily Paws and Visiting our Facebook Page will make you 44% sharper!
October 1st, 2012We know you love our daily picture of the day. Hundreds of you write back and tell us how much you do, and we love seeing our photos shared with others too.
We have great news for you. That time you spend looking at our cute photos are actually made you sharper……up to 44% sharper. Impressed? We were.
Recently researchers at Japan’s Hiroshima University found people focus better shortly after they’ve viewed cute images.
Here is more about this study in this article from Plos One:
Researchers performed three experiments where they showed subjects a variety of images that included food, people, and adult and baby animals.
In a fine-motor dexterity test, 48 subjects (all between the ages of 18-and 22 and all right handed) played a children’s game very much akin to “Operation.” For those unfamiliar with the game, you use tweezers to remove plastic body parts from metal-encased “cavities” without touching the edges and setting off a buzzer.
Subjects played the games multiple times and, before at least one session, researchers showed them images of puppies and kittens.
Those images, according to the study, helped them play the game 44% better. Full grown dog and cat images also had a positive effect on performance, but not by as wide a margin: just 5%.
Cute images, however, may not only effect motor abilities, but have a positive cognitive effect, as well.
In another experiment, a new group of 18-to-20 year olds performed a series of visual search tasks where they had to identify text and numbers in images and images comprised of text and numbers. They, too, were shown cute images in between tasks. The results weren’t as dramatic, but their ability to properly identify the images did improve by 2%.
So the lesson here? Cute pet pictures are good for you and for your friends too!
Go ahead, test yourself….look at the picture below……..
Now don’t you feel better?
(go ahead….share it with your friends…..it’s a good thing)
Daily Paws Picture of the Day: Awww snuggles!
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Gangnam Doggy Style
September 27th, 2012Daily Paws Picture of the Day: Woodpecker eyeing a Raptor
September 27th, 2012Daily Paws for Columbus Ohio
If you don’t know where it came from…………don’t give it to your pet!!
September 26th, 2012The horror of the China melamine pet food tragedy a few years ago is all too fresh in many folks memories. For those of you who aren’t quite clear on the details, ‘protein’ imported from China and used as an ingredient in locally manufactured pet food contained melamine rather than protein – a substitution that ultimatley cost many pet’s their lives or their health, and cost their owners so much more, including expensive veterinary bills, damanged or dead pets and questions that were finally answered after way too many pets had died.
Pet products from China have been behind other pet health problems, especially jerky treats. Recently the Food and Drug Administration issued an update to its ongoing investigation of animal illnesses linked to jerky pet treats. To date the FDA has a reported 22,200 pet illnesses related to these treats, many resulting in kidney disease in dogs.
So how to keep your pet safe from becoming a victim?
- Know where the treat originates from. Eliminate imported jerky treats. Better safe than very sorry!!
- If you cannot find US produced treats your pet will eat make your own.
- Always keep an eye on your pet for any unusual signs that could signal a problem: loss of appetite, listlesness, vomiting, diarrhea, unusually thirsty, etc. You know your pet and you know what is unusual.
- If you feel something is not right, stop the treats and get your pet to the vet. You can take a stool and urine sample to help the vet determine what is going on.
- It is better to be safe and better to visit the vet than wait to see what happens when your pet is ill.