Dogs in Literature:

Argos from Homer’s Odyssey… Perhaps the first dog ever to appear in literature and arguably the most loyal, Argos was Odysseus’ beloved hound  who waited twenty years for his master to return.

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The Ancestry of Cats

 The five cats that started it all… by NICHOLAS WADE Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wildcat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There she felt safe from her many predators in the region, such as hyenas and…

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Dog Anal Gland Expression

by ANDREW M. STREIBER, DVM Q:  This is probably a very an unusual question but it has become a problem. My two and-a-half year old small mix-breed dog’s anal gland is continually expressing on its own at home. A:  Generally speaking, a dog’s anal sacs or anal glands will be “expressed” anytime that animal defecates. …

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