
“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
– Elizabeth Taylor, actress (1932-2011)
“To date, there are no specific disease modifying anti-osteoarthritic treatments. Current management of patients with osteoarthritis aims to improve patient and societal outcomes by reducing symptoms and improving function. Clinical guidelines broadly recommend the provision of effective and individualised information, combined with non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions, and when these are insufficient, surgery.”
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“Not everyone is in a position to help other animals, but everybody is in the position not to harm them.”
-Anthony Douglas Williams, author
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“Well, then they can race around the park, and they can race around the beach, but they won’t be racing on a track and getting themselves injured to the degree that they are getting themselves injured now.”
– Rt Hon Winston Peters, Minister of Racing, in the press conference of 10 December 2024 where it was announced that New Zealand will ban commercial greyhound racing effective 1 August 2026 on animal welfare grounds
Thuson of Hermione, a blind boy, had his eyes licked in the daytime by one of the dogs about the temple, and departed cured.
– Inscription on a tablet at Epidaurus, a city in ancient Greece that is an UNESCO World Heritage Site

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