Her research team at Henry Ford Hospital was the first to show that having a pet in the house during your child's first year of life may protect him or her from developing allergies -- a finding that's since been duplicated in other studies.
It represents the first overhaul of pet law in 94 years.
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The first "Qian Hu--The Pet Family" shops opened in Malaysia, China and Thailand in 2004.
These weren't the sort of questions you set up yourself--say, the name of your first pet.
The first clue came from studies of the geneticists' pet insect, the humble fruit fly.
The RSPCA initially thought the first snake was an escaped pet, but now fear it may have been abandoned.
The website described its survey as the "UK's first pet census".
PetMed Express posted a surprise fiscal third-quarter profit increase, the first bottom-line growth for the online-focused pet-medicine purveyor in more than a year, with revenue jumping 12% on a 29% surge in new orders.
"It's becoming a national movement, " says Penny Jones-Napier, owner of the Big Bad Woof pet store in Hyattsville, Maryland, the first business in the US to adopt the new benefit corporation designation.
Also, in 2010, the South African retail giant became the first to offer customers wine bottled in the eco-friendly PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate).
Managers eager to push faster growth suddenly saw their pet projects funded for the first time.
Have you tried a new food for the first time, changed laundry products or adopted a new pet?
Millan said after you have adopted a shelter dog, the first thing you need to do before bringing your new pet home is take it for a long, one- to two-hour walk.
Something held me back: Bubblegum, my first pet and a shell-carrying member of the Helicidae family.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet, first screened on ITV in 1983, launched the careers of its cast, including Spall and co-star Jimmy Nail, who played a gang of Newcastle builders seeking work in Germany.
Interest in pet health insurance has been growing rapidly since it was first introduced in the United States in the early 1980s.
Petsmart.com, founded by Idealab and 48% owned by retailer Petsmart, is edging ahead, having logged the most traffic of all online pet retailers in December: It had almost twice the revenue of Pets.com in its first six months.
Primatologist Wright was a hard-partying girl in her 20s when she first got interested in science one New York night: She stumbled into a pet shop across from the renowned rock music venue Filmore East and bought a pet monkey.
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