Healthy Pets, Healthy Lives !
The first time you put your new best friend in your vehicle is an exciting moment. It’s also a moment to think about her safety, not just on this first trip, but ongoing. Over the years, the two of you will no doubt share many a car ride, so if possible, it’s good to start as you mean to go on. For guidance, consider what our canine behavior expert sees…
The Turlock Animal Services has room on their list for any individuals interested in adopting one of the 49 dogs recently rescued from a Turlock home. Turlock Animal Services started compiling a list on Tuesday of people interested in adopting one of the dogs and by the end of the day the list had 22 names, said Turlock Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Parmley. Animal Services will continue to take names…
Can dogs eat Pringles? You might be contemplating whether you can impart to your pooch as you appreciate a sack of potato chips for yourself, or perhaps your canine unintentionally ate some off the floor. For the greater part of us human guardians, potato chips are a scrumptious nibble we like to have occasionally, so are potato chips likewise ok for canines to eat? The short answer is no. Canines…
Audrey Ruple loves Great Danes so much that, while in the middle of Texas on a family vacation in 2012, she made the decision to get another one. “We were lucky that we had a vehicle large enough to hold an extra passenger,” says Ruple, recalling how Bitzer, a purebred Great Dane that eventually grew to 140 pounds, came to live with her family. Despite the rocky trip back to…
The Redondo Beach City Council plans to rethink its decision last year to allow leashed dogs in city parks and parkettes after city staff and council members received a number of complaints. Dogs had been prohibited in Redondo Beach parks since 1979. But many dog owners, unaware of that fact, never thought anything of walking their pups on leashes through a grassy open spaces. In October, the City Council did…
For college students under pressure, a dog may be the best stress fighter around. Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students’ thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information, according to new Washington State University research. The study was published on May 12 in the journal AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. The paper demonstrated that stressed students…
BluePath Service Dogs was established in December 2016 to provide service dog assistance for children with autism. Although the use of service dogs for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder and disabilities is well-known, their benefits for children on the autism spectrum is equally impressive. Michelle Brier with a member of the Blue Path Service Dogs team. Photo by Mark Liflander “About half of children diagnosed with autism are prone to…
Dog’s Name and Age: Zoey, 13 years Nicknames: Angel Face, Big Girl Adoption Story: We had lost our 11-year-old Lab/Shepard mix to cancer and needed to fill the hole in our hearts. I looked for a young dog on Petfinder.com for a couple of months and when I came across the picture of Zoey (she was initially called “Miss Dixie” by the rescue group that had pulled her out of a high-kill…
Dog’s Name and Age: Tula, 4 years Nicknames: Tulip Adoption Story: We previously wrote for the The Bark about our adoption of Tula, a blind Shiz-Tsu who has taught us so much about loving kindness. We brought Tula into our family thinking we would have to learn to “manage” a blind dog. Instead, Tula has taught us patience, commitment, open-mindedness. Tula loves to count steps in new locations so that she can…
Day 1 Today I had leftovers. I lacked my usual enthusiasm as I ate the salmon and rice. It was a dry meal, but I generally love dry meals. My thoughts were too occupied with Gladys; I just couldn’t find the pleasure and excitement I usually have while eating. Gladys, my life partner of 19 years, has fallen deathly ill. She is in the hospital. And here I am, trapped…