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The Canine Corner for October contains my interview with Rachel McCoubrey, Dunedin water colour artist, and author of the children's book Remarkable Meg. Meg, a Labrador, survived against all odds after a car crash.

A textile-based implant containing cartilage derived from stem cells reduced pain and restored hip joint function to baseline levels in a study of dogs with symptoms of moderate osteoarthritis. This type of research is funded primarily because the results will help human health care.

The righteous care for the needs of their animals. Proverbs 12:10

This month, my long-awaited videos for accounting software company, Xero, have dropped on Facebook. What started as a simply reply to an email blossomed into an adventure and experience. Read about my journey in this blog post.

We are one week away from moving our clocks back an hour to go onto daylight savings time. In this column, I write about the impacts on our dogs of changing clocks and how you can help the transition.

A study published in Scientific Reports compared dogs’ spontaneous reactions to intentional and unintentional human behavior and found that dogs reacted differently depending on the condition.

Last week, another review report (it's #3) into the greyhound racing industry in NZ was released. In this post, I highlight some of the key findings and conclusions. If you are interested in animal welfare in this country, please read!

This month's quote comes from author Steven Rowley.

This column from the website money.co.uk uses statistics gained from social media to rank dog breeds that are the most destructive. Studies like this use skewed statistics - because if the Labrador is the most popular breed of dog, chances are they are more likely to have a greater number of insurance claims.

Researchers call it "reciprocal altruism" but from this particular study, it doesn't look like dogs will return favours. I'm sure Lassie would disagree.