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How Pets May React to a Baby's Crying

A baby's cry is one of the most distressing sounds to human ears. Pets, with their sensitive hearing, experience infant cries as even more aversive. W...

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Hygiene After Contact with Pets

Pets bring joy and companionship to families, but they can also carry bacteria, viruses, and parasites that cause illness in young children. Young chi...

7 min read

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Safety Around Household Pets

Many families have both pets and young children, and with proper management, these relationships can be wonderful for both. However, young children an...

7 min read

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Children and Pets: Why 'Just for a Minute' Is the Phrase Behind Most Bites

There is a common scene at the back of every paediatric A&E consultation about a dog bite: the family loved the dog, the dog had never bitten anyone,...

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