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Pet adoption could be the healthiest thing you do this year

Pouya Parsafar had never owned a pet before when he adopted a mixed-breed puppy, Mocha, in the summer of 2020 after moving to a Palm Jumeirah villa. “Growing up, my family and culture didn’t allow pets, so I had never experienced the value one can bring to a household,” he explains. “We moved to our villa when the pandemic struck and decided to add a puppy to the family. Mocha caught my eye, stole my

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Love TikTok? How about the AI?

You might cringe at the mention of TikTok, the wildly successful Chinese social-media platform. But you’d be a fool for underestimating it. Downloaded on three billion cell phones – more than the population of China and India together – TikTok’s revenues last year amounted to US$34 billion – more than the individual GDP of half the world’s countries. TikTok has risen to global popularity and made its investors rich through the use of an advanced

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Pets

Meet Livehealthy’s much-loved pets

The research is stacked up: owning pets is a clearly a very healthy thing to do. From reducing stress, lowering depression, loneliness, anxiety and cholesterol; boosting serotonin and, in the case of dogs, increasing activity levels — even a longer life span — the benefits are many and well-documented. We know this at Livehealthy, where the entire editorial team are pet-lovers. Meet our menagerie. A black desert cat Ann Marie McQueen, editor I was adamant that

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adopt a dog and get walking

Dog-friendly places to eat, play and sleep in the UAE

Dogs first became domesticated more than 10,000 years ago but until relatively recently – two or three centuries ago – most had to earn their keep by working as hunters or guardians of livestock and property or clearing vermin. Cultural differences also mean that keeping an animal merely as a pet, for pleasure and companionship rather than for work, is a less common practice in the Middle East. All that said, it is possible for pets

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