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Keep Pets Safe Around Holiday Decorations

The holidays are here and this means lights, decorations, candles, trees, and many other festive items that make our homes a little brighter, warmer, and fun. It also means our pets are exposed to items that could be harmful to them. Holiday decorations come in many sizes, forms, and materials. The candles in our menorahs [...]

Keep Your Pet Safe During Winter

Winter is here! There’s icy patches on the street, frost on our cars in the mornings, and we need to wear mittens and scarves. We’ve pulled out the big warm blankets, winterized our automobiles, and have scarves and mittens next to our keys. What about our pets? Animals may be able to withstand the cold [...]

Thanksgiving Pet Tips

It’s almost Thanksgiving, and for pet owners that means in addition to thinking about how we’ll handle our own excesses over the holiday we need to be aware of how our pets will deal with it, too. This can be a really hectic time, with more people in the house than usual, so it’s important [...]

Emergency Preparedness For Your Pets

In light of the recent storms in the Northeast, we wanted to update this article on emergency preparedness for pets with some new information. Our thoughts are with everyone struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy, and we’re grateful to all those who have sent money, supplies, and volunteers to the area. Don’t forget that you [...]

9 Ways To Get That Dog Smell Out Of Your Car

One of my friends came back from a two week camping trip with her husband, kids, and their happy go-lucky Chocolate Lab. The trip was great and the dog enjoyed romping and exploring the woods. However, after cleaning all the camping gear out of the car, my friend was telling me about the lingering smell [...]

Dating Sites For Pet Owners

One of the obstacles when meeting new people is learning what they will and not accept about you, and vice versa. While personality quirks can be ok, there are a few deal-breakers that I’ve come up against in the world of dating, one of them being if they like pets. I have two cats. I [...]

7 Ways to Help You Recover a Lost Dog

This morning I was walking two dogs and as I turned a corner one of them started tugging to go check out something in the grass. The other dog tugged the other way. For a split second I thought about what I would do if one got away. Their leashes were wrapped around my hands [...]

Dog Heatstroke: What It Is & How To Prevent It

Heatstroke is a form of hyperthermia where the dog’s body temperature rises above the normal 101/102 degrees to about 106 or higher. Dogs can’t sweat or cool themselves the way we can. They only have sweat glands on their paws and the tip of their nose. If not treated immediately, a dog can suffer organ [...]

4 Things You Can Do for Your Pet on the 4th of July

This week we will celebrate the 4th of July. Maybe some of your neighbors have already began the holiday by setting off firecrackers, bottle rockets, and other small fireworks. As exciting and as pretty as some fireworks can be, not everyone in the family likes fireworks, usually your pets. If your dog does not like [...]

7 Important Tips for Camping With Your Dog

Bringing your furry buddy along on a camping trip can be a lot of fun but this means packing some extra things for her, and thinking about her impact on environment, too. Before you head out to the Adirondacks, Death Valley, or Lake Tahoe, make sure you’re prepared for the trip. 1: Plan ahead Make [...]