It’s typically not easy or obvious to tell when your dog might be pregnant or whelping (a dog-specific term for birthing). She won’t be “late” and you can’t just buy a home pregnancy kit from the neighborhood drugstore for her. Not to mention, it would be a very difficult task to get her to pee on a stick. The best way to find out if you’ll have newborn puppies in your home soon is to take a drive down to your veterinarian’s office. A basic blood test and X-ray is all that she’ll require. But if your female dog is not spayed and you suppose that she may be pregnant, there are some signs and symptoms that you can look for on your own.

Known in English as Turkey Tail, Trametes versicolor is a contender for the title “World’s Most Common Mushroom.” You can find it from tropical rain forests to the Siberian taiga, feasting on dead wood.

Cholesterol has a bad press to be sure, but this is because the press does not normally give the full story. It is easier and scarier to leave a couple of bits out. The fact is that we have to have cholesterol and triglycerides for that matter in order to live normally. The point where these fats get to be a problem is when we have too high a percentage of them in our blood.