Word: cats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying out 35,000 years ago. "Nearly 30 years of digging," says Lizard Cannell, the team's explosives expert, "and we're still finding firsts. All the time...
DIED. PAULA DANZIGER, 59, author of more than 30 children's books, whose flamboyant style and comic writing connected with grade-schoolers and young adults alike; of a heart attack; in New York City. In 1974 she penned The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, detailing the trials of junior-high life, and later the popular Amber Brown series, about a precocious third-grader...
PETS: Is commercial dog and cat food harmful? One vet says...
...1980s that Tom Lonsdale began making the observations that would eventually take over his life. Heading several veterinary practices in western Sydney, he noticed that the mouths of most of his cat and dog patients were in terrible shape - full of blood, pus and loose teeth. Periodontal disease was not a term he could recall hearing at vet school. He knew that many people, including vets, thought the natural state of cats' and dogs' mouths was repulsive. But something told Lonsdale that what he was seeing needed investigating...
...collies from processed food to mainly meaty bones 17 years ago. The change, she says, slashed her vet bills from $A1,000 a month to zip: "I've not had a sick dog since." Lonsdale says a natural diet slightly increases the life span of most breeds of cat and dog, but more significant is the improvement to their quality of life. "Instead of being miserable they'll be healthy, then fall off the perch abruptly...