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Vet’s urgent warning to dog owners over room you must NEVER let your pet into… it could prove deadly
A VET has shared an urgent warning to dog owners over a room they should never allow their pets to enter.
Veterinarian Rachel Barrack said dogs should never be allowed in the bathroom or anywhere near the toilet.
This naughty pup shouldn’t be allowed inside the bathroom[/caption]
The veterinarian explained that all dogs, in particular larger breeds, should be kept far away from the bathroom no matter how needy or curious they are.
“Toilet bowls do not contain clean water that is appropriate for your dog or cat to consume.
“Keep the lid down so your large-breed dog cannot access the bowl,” Barrack told Insider,
Beyond the issues of contaminated water, the vet said that many bathrooms are cleaned with strong chemicals that can be toxic to your dogs and possibly deadly.
Barrack warned that even everyday person-care items kept in bathrooms could contain substances harmful for your canines.
Instead, keep the door closed or if this isn’t possible make the room dog-safe.
Store toiletries and cleaning products far out of reach from your pets and clean the room with non-harmful, softer chemicals.
Beyond the lavatory, homeowners should always be careful with what products they are using to clean their houses if they have pets, a home expert has warned.
Ivan Ivanov from End of Tenancy Cleaning explained: “Although many popular cleaning products can give us the results we want, they are not so kind to pets, potentially putting them at risk of serious health problems,” Ivanov explained.
According to data gathered by End of Tenancy Cleaning, common products pose a major risk.
Just like the strong products used in bathrooms, oven cleaners, dishwasher tablets, bleach, and even laundry products can cause your pets to become gravely ill.
Floor cleaners are known to pose a risk to pets, who spend plenty of time treading over or possibly licking those surfaces.
This is particularly pertinent for ammonium-based cleaners, which may cause irritation and chemical burns to paws and noses.
Highly-concentrated laundry products can get strong pet odours out of clothes and bedding. However, they can also linger in the fibres even after washing.
This, too, can cause irritation to your furry friends’ skin.
There’s even an easy rule of thumb to follow: “If they are fragrance-free, they are safer for your pet,” Ivanov said.
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To celebrate Apex Legends’ upcoming Season 17, developer Respawn have announced the newest hero to join the roster: old-timer Ballistic. The battle-royale’s last season had no new Legend, disappointing a few Apexers, but Ballistic is coming out of his comfy wine-fuelled retirement and joining the fight on May 9th, just for you guys.
Brit tourist caught deadly dengue fever in top European hotspot
A BRIT holidaymaker has caught the deadly jungle bug, dengue fever, in the south of France.
Medics revealed a 44-year-old woman was infected with the virus on a family trip close to Nice in September.
The holidaymaker has caught dengue fever near Nice, France[/caption]
Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading dengue fever[/caption]
She went to A&E in the UK with a three-day fever, pains and a rash but later made a full recovery.
Dengue is most often found in tropical countries like Vietnam and Brazil.
But global warming means the mosquitoes that spread the dengue virus are comfortable coming further north, with cases set to rise in future.
French health officials warned of an outbreak in the country’s south last year.
Dr Owain Donnelly, from London’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the illness is “rapidly changing”.
He said: “Hotter temperatures and more rainfall, and increasing global trade and tourism, mean we may see more parts of Europe with the right combination of factors for dengue outbreaks.”
The virus causes fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, vomiting and a blotchy rash.
It usually heals on its own but around five per cent of cases are severe and can be deadly.
Around 50million people per year are infected with dengue, mainly in Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
It does not spread between people but is carried by the Asian tiger mosquito, which is on the rise in Europe.
Speaking at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Dr Donnelly added: “Physicians should consider testing for dengue if patients live in or have visited countries even where it is not widespread.”
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Heartwarming moment young boy is pulled from rubble after deadly earthquakes in Turkey & Syria, as expert issues warning
THIS is the heartwarming moment a boy was miraculously saved after 70 hours of being trapped under the rubble and ruins of what was his home in Syria.
It comes as an expert warns aid to the region is too little and too late.
The crisis organisation, The White Helmets, desperately tries to reach Abdul Hakim – who has been trapped for likely 70 hours[/caption]
As he is freed there is an overwhelming sound of cheers, praying and crying from the hundreds of people who are watching[/caption]
A moment of hope amongst the tragic news that the death toll has passed 20,000[/caption]
Dramatic footage shows the heart-wrenching scenes of young Abdul Hakim’s rescue as hundreds pray and cry in a moment of relief from the misery inflicted by the deadly earthquakes.
The major 7.8 magnitude earthquake – a once-in-a-century event – brutally struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria in the early hours of Monday.
It was followed by another 7.5 magnitude earthquake and violent aftershocks and tremors that continued to devastate the region and hinder rescue efforts.
The World Health Organisation predicts 23 million people are affected by the disaster, and the death toll has now surpassed 20,000.
Search and rescue volunteers have been desperately scrambling over the ruins of flattened buildings to find survivors – listening out for voices of those trapped.
The footage was released by the White Helmets – otherwise known as Syria Civil Defence – who are the longstanding civil society crisis organisation working tirelessly to save survivors across the war-shattered country.
It captures the teams exhaustingly trying to free Abdul Hakim in a lengthy mission, which provides a singular moment of hope for all those watching on.
The rescue took place in the town of Armanāz, west of Idlib in Syria’s North West – an area considered to be a stronghold of Syrian rebels.
The war-weary region was deeply vulnerable to the earthquake as its buildings were already battered from bombing raids throughout Syria’s decade-long civil war.
The only open humanitarian corridor from Turkey to northern Syrian is Bab al-Hawa, and until today, roads leading to it were too badly damaged or destroyed to cross it.
The first UN lorries bringing aid have finally crossed the damaged border on their way to the region that has been starved of aid since the earthquake struck.
However, “access to the region has been very political,” according to Reva Dhingra from the global foreign policy think tank, Brookings.
Help was necessary three days ago when people were alive under the rubble
Reva Dhingra, Brookings Institute
In rebel-held areas of Syria’s northwest, the humanitarian disaster is unfolding at an unstoppable pace.
This “enclave of specific rebel groups are blocked off from the rest of the world except for that one crossing”, Dhingra told The Sun Online.
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has had little desire to help the opposition-led areas flattened and devastated by the disaster, and it is trying to block attempts for international aid to reach rebel-held areas directly.
It’s a political and logistical nightmare, she explained, but the issue is also deepened by a “relative lack of interest in the area” by Western nations.
The lack of political pressure to open up access to aid, particularly from the UN, Dhingra says, has helped to play into the Assad-regime’s interests to “isolate” the opposition-led area.
“There needed to be political pressure to get aid to this area, and it was necessary three days ago when people were alive under the rubble,” she said.
Even as beautiful moments like Abdul Hakim being pulled from the rubble are happening, Dhingra warned that “hope is diminishing with every hour that is passing”.
The reality, she said “is that a lot of people that could have been saved weren’t”.
A view of the damage inflicted by the earthquakes in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, near Aleppo[/caption]
The visible scale of destruction across the already war-shattered region of Syria[/caption]
People gather around recently-dug graves to mourn the loss of their relatives[/caption]