Animal care
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, August/September 1996:
Veterinarians Dee Dee
Moore and Helen Belknap, assisted
by interns from a DePaul University
program on exotic cat care, on June
25 donated spays to seven cougars at
the Turpentine Creek Exotic
Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs,
Arkansas. The facility now houses
19 cougars, with a waiting list of 70.
Cornell University College
of Veterinary Medicine behaviorist
Soraya Juarbe-Diaz hopes to
popularize an anti-barking collar that
instead of emitting an electroshock
with each bark instead squirts citronella
essence. Dogs don’t like the
smell of citronella, humans do like
it, and according to Juarbe-Diaz, it
is “at least as effective” as electroshock
in persuading chronic barkers
to amend their ways.