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Concerned by high cost of raising children, many South Koreans opt to dote on pets
Kang Sung-il buys Sancho, his Pomeranian, a toy every business trip and will dress it up in a new $50 suit when he visits his mother this Lunar New Year holiday. Kang and his wife say children are too expensive and bring too much pressure. ...
Nonprofit groups help find safe homes for Japan's abandoned pets
Life hasn't been easy for Stella. The small kitten with scruffy fur and matching orange-tinted eyes was born in September and still has no home. Just months ago, Stella's mother was living near a park in Kawasaki with neither food nor shelter. With winter looming, ...
Love your dog, but worried about the environmental impact of its meat-heavy diet? Now one British company is offering a solution — feed your pooch insects instead. It launched a dry dog food on Thursday made from black soldier fly larvae in a bid to ...
Cats outnumber dogs as pets in Japan for second straight year
The estimated number of cats being kept as pets outnumbered that of dogs for the second straight year in 2018, the Japan Pet Food Association said Tuesday. After the number of pet cats exceeded that of dogs for the first time ever in the country ...
Dogged by old age, pets are put into care
As elderly dog owners struggle to care for their aging pets, more look to pet nursing homes for longterm help.
Kim Jong Un's gift of two hunting dogs to South Korea in September is starting to bear more fruit, first with a litter of puppies and now with a landmark railway deal. South Korea will send trains across the border to North Korea for the ...
Akita ranks 2nd for Japan prefecture searches abroad thanks to dog breed
The northeastern prefecture of Akita came in second, behind Tokyo, in a ranking of Japanese prefecture names searched on the internet abroad, a survey by a digital advertising company has found. The result was unexpected, with Akita coming ahead of such prefectures as Kyoto and ...
All-points bulletin: A Shiba named Reina is in need of a home
Reina is smart, knows a lot of commands, loves other dogs and doesn't even mind veterinarians.
South Korean officials on Thursday began to dismantle the country's largest canine slaughterhouse complex, as animal rights activists push to end the custom of eating dog meat. About 1 million dogs are eaten a year in South Korea, often as a summertime delicacy, with the ...
