Healthy Pets, Healthy Lives !
Animals Best Friends has three beautiful puppies who need forever homes. They came from a lady who needed help placing them. She placed all but three, and ABF took them for her. These puppies are shepherd mixes who enjoy going for car rides, love playing in the water and enjoy a treat of peanut butter. All are boys and are up to date on their vaccinations, dewormed and neutered. Dusty,…
When looking at the makeup of American families today, it’s rare to see a home where a pet isn’t part of the family. According to the most recent data from the APPA National Pet Owners Survey, 67% of households—or around 85 million homes—own a pet. Of these households, dogs and cats top the list of most popular pets, with 63.4 million and 42.7 million households owning dogs and cats, respectively. In…
When the humans decide to have a baby, the family dog’s world dramatically changes. Following is a translation of a letter that Tipsy, the cat who lives with the soon-to-be grandma, wrote to Emi, the 12-year-old dog who’s the best pal of the soon-to-be mom. Dear Emi … I hear there’s a new little one coming to your house. Before the arrival of “the blessed event,” I thought I’d give…
Dog’s Name and Age: Bumper and Echo, 8 years Adoption Story: I located Echo on PetFinder.com After making the visitation arrangements on the phone I drove to rural Utah where I discovered she had a brother. Of course, I had to bring him home with us, especially after I was told he would likely be euthanized. I named him Bumper because he was constantly bumping into me and Echo looks a…
Dog’s Name and Age: Traveler, 4 years Adoption Story: I had three dogs. Two died within a short time (one at 10 from hemangiosarcoma, the other from old age at 18), leaving the last dog by herself. I was okay with one dog, thinking we would have more one on one time. But I looked at her and knew. She was okay with me alone, but she’s a dog who likes…
Seventeen percent of American men who answered a recent survey said they believed that they could defeat a kangaroo in a fight, even if unarmed. The men … not the kangaroo. We all know kangaroos come with their own boxing gloves. I love polls such as this — but not because they tell us anything. I love them because such topics remind us that there is more to life than…
“We will be watching this closely over the next several months,” Mr. San Filippo said. “Certainly we’ve been aware of this as a possibility since we began hearing about more people bringing pets home during the pandemic. But so far we haven’t seen any evidence of a corresponding increase in surrenders.” The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also said in a statement there was no evidence…
How to avoid mistakes and keep your puppy healthy Before we dive into PART 2 of the puppy series, I would like to make sure that you will also read (or at least bookmark) PART1 of the Most common mistakes that people make with their puppies, which focuses on socialization and vaccines for puppies and young dogs. If you have a puppy, early socialization is the foundation of every puppy’s happy…
It also had an unusual genetic mutation, a deletion in what is commonly known as the N gene, which codes for an important structural protein. This deletion has not been documented in other canine coronaviruses, Dr. Vlasova said, but similar mutations have appeared in the viruses that cause Covid and SARS. “So what does this mean?” Dr. Gray asks. “Well, you know, we don’t know exactly.” Although much more research…
Can dogs eat chicken nuggets? You and I know very well that lean natural chicken offers awesome healthful advantages to canines. Indeed, most canine food varieties contain chicken as one of the fixings. They get the fundamental proteins from the chicken they eat. Bubbled chicken is suggested in certain quarters as help for canines that are encountering stomach disturbs and are not eating their normal food. The inquiry at that…