We love our pets and want to keep them healthy and satisfied so they can live full, happy lives. Obese pets, especially traditional worker pets such as horses, can’t fully enjoy their life with all that extra weight and related health problems. There are various causes of obesity in horses that you should know so you can keep your horse healthy. If your horse is already struggling with obesity, there are some treatments available as well.

URBANA, Ill. – When disaster strikes, you want the very best tools, functioning at their peak. In the case of catastrophic earthquakes, tornadoes, or even bombings in war zones, those tools are search and rescue dogs. But researchers have found that getting dogs to disaster sites can add to the animals’ stress.

“We’ve spent $16 billion in this country trying to come up with a machine that can sniff better than dogs, and we haven’t done it yet. Search and rescue animals can save lives, protect our soldiers in the field, and locate survivors after a disaster. We want to know how we can manage them so we can protect their performance, because their performance impacts human lives. That’s the reason behind what we do,” says Erin Perry, an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition at Southern Illinois University.