Common Mistakes with Cats and Cold Weather
Cats have killer survival instincts and are generally self-sufficient. When the cold weather descends during the winter months, there is a slew of hazards to look out for. Here are some tips and tricks to keep your fluffy kitty healthy and warm in the winter. If you...
Cold Weather and Your Dog: How to Protect them during Winter months
Even with their warm and fuzzy fur coat and their naturally tough paw pads, your pooch is still vulnerable when those cold, winter days and nights set in. Most dogs can tolerate more frigid temperatures to a point. However, they do need us to pay attention to signs...
Veiled Chameleons- A Beautiful Exotic Pet
Many people select veiled chameleons as an exotic pet. They are incredibly beautiful No two veiled chameleons are the same. Veiled chameleons are a commonly available exotic pet. Veiled chameleons are not good starter pets like bearded dragons are. Experience with...
The Importance of Urine In Determining a Pet Health
Pet parents are used to the particularities of their pet's feces as they have to scoop it up when they walk their dog. The dog’s pee is also an indicator of a pet’s health but is much harder to check. Dogs pee on the grass or a shrub, and it’s soaked up. Sometimes you...
The Benefits of Proper Nutrition For A Dog
The proper amounts of nutrients and vitamins and minerals are required to be in all dog foods that are labeled as “complete and balanced.” Just like a person cannot thrive without the right nutrients, neither can our canine companions. If you are feeding your dog a...
Can Dogs Catch Your Cold? All About Things We Don’t Want to Share With Our Pets
We will sometimes even share our plate with our dog. We share the bed, the sofa and we share quality time together but there are actually some things that we share with our pets, and that would be germs and infections. Animals can transmit diseases to humans via...
Dog Park Etiquette
Even canines need to mind their manners. A day at the dog park can tire out your dog in a way just walking with them could never do and also provides your dog with much-needed peer socialization. Going to the dog park should be a positive experience, it can be quite...
Animal Shelter Misconceptions and Myth Corrections
Animal shelters are very beneficial not just to the animals they save but also the communities they serve. However, there are many ideas about them that the public holds which are incorrect. These myths cause the statistics for animals that are euthanized by shelters...
Canine Atopic Dermatitis Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
Can Dogs Even Have Allergies? Dogs can have allergies just like we humans do. Dog allergies are often environmental I source of the trigger. Allergic reactions called an allergic response are most commonly caused by the allergens found in pollen, the dander of fellow...
Canine Dementia (Canine Cognitive Dysfunction) and Geriatric Dog Mental Health
Your dog may not lose the car keys or forget to pick up milk at the supermarket, but your dog can indeed have “senior moments” if he’s a geriatric pup. If you notice your dog forgets the route on the daily walk or he’s just a bit more weary-seeming and not taking as...
Cat Identification Tags and Microchips
Have you ever considered what would happen to your cat if he were to become lost? How would your cat find his way home? After all, accidents can happen and even indoor cats can manage to sneak out accidentally. Having a form or method of identification of...
Are Guinea Pigs Really Ideal Classroom Pets?
Guinea pigs are one of best first pets for families that have young children. However as many homes and leases prevent pet ownership, often a child’s first exposure to the responsibilities of a pet come from in the classroom. Guinea pigs make excellent classroom...
When Your Cat Goes on a Hunger Strike
Why won’t your cat eat? It is not likely that your cat is having a political protest and trying to improve the quality of life for kittens in a bad political situation, but sometimes a cat will seem to go on a hunger strike and refuse to eat. Skipping Meals...
The Best Dogs for an Introvert
Canine companions come is so many types and with so many different personalities that are breed associated. An introvert is a homebody and likes to have a quiet time with tea and books and likes a laid-back chill life. Some dog breeds prefer a quiet night into an...
Ways Our Pets Make Us Healthier
Adopt a Pet, Save a Life There is truth to the slogan “Adopt a pet, save a life”. Whenever you adopt a pet from a shelter or rescue a pet, you save a life. 16,000 unwanted pets are killed every day in U.S. shelters. Providing a forever home for a dog or cat is a...
Feeding Your Dog Properly
In 2007, over one hundred dog food brands were recalled due to a tainted ingredient which was imported from China, making some dogs sick and killing others. We hear about dog food recalls on the news and salmonella has even become a concern for various dog food...
Setting Up a Reptile Terrarium
If you’re interested in owning a reptile (or even a tarantula, as they require similar habitats but without the water area as they are no aquatic tarantulas), you’re going to need a terrarium to keep it in. A terrarium is simply a container designed to hold small...
Do you really want a pet snake?
If everything about snakes that you know you learned B-Movies, you might be forgiven for thinking that snakes are naturally aggressive and mean. The truth is that snakes are interesting creatures, and many of them are pretty passive. Aggression is not their default...