How to Ensure Your Cat Adores You
You love your cat and sometimes you may feel that your cat isn’t as head over paws for you as you are about them. There are ways to win the heart of most cats and the most important way to ensure your cat adores you is to understand it. Understanding a cat means...
What to Know About Housetraining
Housetraining is usually the first skill owners attempt to train. Good housetraining goes a long way toward keeping the peace with a new dog. It also helps to keep those pet stains to a minimum. Puppies and older adopted dogs need housetraining instruction. This...
What Not to do During Dog Training
Training a dog is a complicated undertaking. That’s why people go to school to learn how to properly and safely train the pups. It’s always best to have a professional on your side. The wrong kind of training is often highly detrimental. It can teach a behavior you...
What to Look For in a Dog Trainer
Our dogs mean the world to us. Just as we wouldn’t trust everyone with caring for our human family, it is important to be selective when hiring a pet sitter or trainer. Good training early on in life sets a dog up for success and happiness in the future. Improper...
Canine Body Language and Training
How many nonverbal cues do we humans give on a daily basis? Well, let’s think- winking, waving, slouching, eye-rolling and the list goes on. We are lucky because when these nonverbal cues fail to communicate our message, we have a vocabulary to fall back on....
Should I Hire a Dog Trainer?
Maybe you have heard that 2 Paws Up Inc. has a new trainer. Her name is Bambi Pinkerton and she’s kind of a big deal. Some might wonder why a dog trainer is necessary. Your pup doesn’t need to have aspirations of becoming a canine officer to benefit from training....
Holidays Close to Home Activities with Pets
Our pets were good cats and dogs in a very not-so-good and stressful year. Our canine and feline companions are always with us through thick and thin and encourage us to create holiday traditions that include them. Including your pets in holiday traditions are...
DIY Crafts and Holiday Gifts for Pets
While our cats may bring us gifts we may not want to show they love us and our dogs bring us soggy tennis balls and occasionally other things, we humans love sharing the gift-giving fun of the holidays with our pets. Here are some DIY crafts, toys, and pet treats you...
Christmas Trees and Dog Safety
Setting up the Christmas tree and decorating it is a beloved tradition for many families, but those wonderful holiday traditions can pose a danger to our dogs. The choice of Christmas tree and its décor can be a serious health and safety risk to our canine companions....
Essential Tips for Moving Houses with Pets
Moving to a new house can be hard on pets. Our animals are creatures of habit, so changing their surroundings might be a challenge for them. When it comes time to buy a new home and move your family, use this guide to help you make your pet comfortable throughout the...
Aquarium Cleaning – Handling Cloudy Aquarium Problems
Nearly every fish owner has had to deal with cloudy or hazy water. It can be a problem that is hard to troubleshoot and create an action plan, especially if water changes do not seem to solve the problem. Cloudy aquarium water causes are often not crystal clear but by...
The Costs of Dog Ownership
Understanding the typical costs involved in dog ownership Being a dog owner requires an investment or money, time, and energy, but how much does it cost to care for a dog properly? Dog care may be within your budget or not so let’s examine the costs involved in canine...
Cats and Coconut Oil – What You Need to Know
Coconut oil has been used in cooking for decades but recently, it’s become the darling of the “all-natural,” “holistic,” and “integrative medicine” world as well as top skincare and cosmetics item. Coconut oil is everywhere and buzzworthy. For every human food trend,...
Fish Nutrition Basics
Fish are lower-maintenance pets, but a pet fish is only as healthy as his diet and water conditions. Fish need the same attention paid to proper nutrition as other pets even if they only eat tiny portions of food each day. Understanding the nutritional needs of your...
Puppy Development between 8 – 12 Weeks
We adopt puppies during one of the most important times in a dog’s entire lifetime. This time is the imprinting stage. Most puppies go to their new homes between eight to twelve weeks of age. This is a point of rapid change and brain development. The puppy has just...
What Do Reptiles Eat? Diet Summaries for Common Reptile Pets
There are approximately 9,500 different species of reptiles on the planet and some of these ancient creatures are wonderful pets. Crocodiles are not typically pets, but they are avid and aggressive carnivores and tortoises are all about their veggies. There may be...
Zoonotic Diseases
Illnesses You Can Get from Your Pet During a public health crisis, we all are concerned and worried about communicable illnesses. There are concerns about COVID-19 and our pets, but it serves to remind us there are other illnesses that we must protect our pets...
Emotional Support Animals
Requirements, Rights and Registration How to Register an Emotional Support Animal? Emotional Support Animals are considered a valuable part of mental wellness and care. Therapy animals have long been used in mental health inpatient and outpatient programs and...