Canine Science

For decades, understanding a dog’s lineage or predicting its future health relied heavily on pedigree charts, visual guesswork, and waiting for symptoms to appear. Today, a simple cheek swab offers a window into a dog's ...

Microchips: Your Dog's Invisible Lifeline in Singapore It’s every Singaporean dog owner's worst fear: your beloved companion slips their collar and disappears into the busy city. While collars and tags are helpful, they can fall ...

Helping our dogs cope with cataracts When you look into your dog's eyes, if they are a little cloudy or hazy, it could indicate that cataracts are forming. Eyes have lenses inside them to help ...

From humping his toy, to rolling in rotten stuffs, our dogs seem to have a never ending list of behaviours that amazes us. While no one knows exactly the "whys" behind these deeds, many theories have been postulated. And until ...

Too often we see urgent requests on social media asking for pet blood donors to save the life of another who is losing blood. For some, it even comes as a surprise that blood transfusion ...

Anaesthesia is the total loss of sensation in a body part or in the whole body, generally induced by a drug or drugs to create loss of feeling, unawareness and muscle relaxation either locally, regionally ...

The Science of Puppy Play: Why Winning Isn't Everything Its not really a dog eat dog world out there, at least among puppies. Puppies play fight a lot, but it is not always about testing ...

Osteoarthritis (arthritis)  is a well-recognised condition in people and dogs. It is a common cause of chronic pain, where 1 in every 5 adults is affected. The incidence of this disease is similar to that in dogs, ...