Sunday, July 30, 2017
3 Cautions Swimming with Dogs -
Just like raising our children We can't put our pets in plastic bubbles. This world is filled with dangers at every corner. Even still we want to have happy & healthy lives and we want the same for our pets. So if your anything like me there is no shortage of fun things to do in the summertime. But taking precautions is always first and foremost If your dog is like most he/she is probably an avid, excellent swimmer regardless of their size. Most dogs love to swim in any water. The tub, pools, ocean, lake and of course a large muddy puddle. However, it is necessary to be vigilant of any dangers while engaging in fun activities to avoid unnecessary mishaps
1. Ocean/Salt Water: Water Toxicity, Or Acute Water Intoxication while uncommon, is dangerous and often fatal. With excessive water intake the blood sodium level drops. This allows water to enter the brain and cause brain swelling. It also raises blood pressure which over time could be fatal to major organs such as heart and kidneys,
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Top 5 Essentials For Traveling with Your Dog
Traveling With Your Furry Friend.
Summer is here! The excitement of that much needed vacation is right around the corner. If your like most of us, we packing in our heads at least 2 weeks ahead of time. Yet don't don the actual packing until days before, if not the night before leaving. Why? Who knows? Honestly it's ridiculous the extra stress we add to ourselves when we decide to take a trip. That once we do finally reach our point of relaxation we are over exhausted.
In this post I have put the top 5 must haves for your furry friend that you can for obvious reasons pack at the very end. However I'm also adding a handy list of what to be sure is packed. Whether your traveling by car, plane ,train or boat you will need the top 5.
- 1. Their Dog Collar: Might seem obvious, but if you have free roam dogs like mine you could accidently leave it hanging by the door when loading the pups in the car. (I know I have, quite a few times on Road Trips to. TN)
- 2. Their own Water Bowl: I know what your thinking, "another no brainer" or "no biggie you could use a cup. But if your dog is anything like mine whitout "HIS" own water bowl I swear he would die of thirst.
- 3. Their Vaccination List : This is essential, Not only is it proof of ownership it shows your dog is current on the rabies and other must have vaccines. (I have honestly forget mine more than once) "Thank God for Fax Machines"
- 4. Their own Bed or Blanket : Long distance in your own car may not seem all to bad because it is familiar. However some dogs will get car sick after awhile from being anxious. These 2 things are familiar calming smells to them. After all planes, trains, or boats, are all unfamiliar smells and sounds for your dog. So you want to help your dog remain as calm as possible. After all they don't fully understand this trip is "all for fun".
- 5. Their Food : To be honest even I laughed at this one. Until I had to drive out of my way on my long drive to Tennessee. Not only was it a pain to stop but I had to find a store that sold "My Dogs" brand of food.
Below is an extensive list you can print detailing all suggestions to pack with a list of Pet friendly Hotels and airfare rates for dogs.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Myths & Actual Dangers To Your Dog Eating Grass!
Myths & Actual Dangers To Your Dog Eating Grass! - Their Love is Unconditional, They Deserve the Same!:
If I may say, it's my guess you're reading this because you either have a dog or know someone who's dog eats grass. There is so much speculation around this subject and it all depends on who you talk to. Which like most things in life you will sift through and go with the one that fits you and your loved ones the most. In this post, I intend on sharing some myths Continue Reading
If I may say, it's my guess you're reading this because you either have a dog or know someone who's dog eats grass. There is so much speculation around this subject and it all depends on who you talk to. Which like most things in life you will sift through and go with the one that fits you and your loved ones the most. In this post, I intend on sharing some myths Continue Reading
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
Where Did Dora Go?
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am an avid pet lover. Like anyone, I do what is necessary to me to make my pets as happy and healthy as possible. Or so I thought, Until that horrible day 3 years ago May.
This is Dora, she's not an ordinary cat (I know most pet owners say that about their animals). But Dora is unique to me, I think she truly feels she is partly a dog. What I mean is that every day when breakfast is done she races to the door first and rings the bell to go out. (Lol, Yes I have a bell hanging on my door)My dogs are all trained to ring it with their nose when they need to go out. She is the leader always in front of the dogs on our daily walks. Because of this, I made sure she was microchipped in case she ever went missing. I was confident that this was enough.
On that day, however, a bunny in the neighbors' yard caught her eye and she scurried off. I didn't worry much because she would usually just run back to the house and be there waiting when I came back with the dogs. But she wasn't there, Why? I wasn't sure. I still wasn't worried yet. Until dinner time rolled around and she still wasn't home I began to worry. After dinner I walked the dogs again and called to Dora in hopes she would jump out of a bush and continue being a leader of our pack. But NOTHING!
How Technology Is Great For Your Pets!
Pets using technology? Huh? What? If you're like me you're probably wondering, how? Technology has undoubtedly changed our lives over the years. In some instances for the worst. We all know how much of society is now so detached from social interactions unless over some form of technology. But when looking at the worst we also have to acknowledge the amazing advancements from technology, in health, marketing, careers etc. And now these advancements are reaching our pets.
So you ask yourself, What am I talking about? I ask you to follow along as I show you this amazing product I found. Most of us, the first thing we do the day we get our furry addition to our family, is get their food and things they will need to have a happy healthy life. Next, on the list is set up a vet visit to check their overall health and get their much-needed vaccines. While at the vet visit at one point it will be recommended that you get your pet microchipped in the sad event they go* (Continue Reading Click Here!)
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Nightmare In Hamden — The Untold Story of Kato and Kleo
Nightmare In Hamden — The Untold Story of Kato and Kleo
Around 6 pm that day in October 2012, Kim Miller of Hamden, CT, was working in her yard when somebody – whoever was it, she never saw – opened the gate to her yard while she was busy in work. Her two Rottweilers – Kato, a 2-year-old male, and Kleo, a 1-year-old female – ran outside. Catching a glimpse of them getting out of the yard, Miller ran after them to bring them back. She was about half a minute behind the dogs and when she arrived at the scene of the incident – the front yard of a neighbor’s house almost 300 feet from her own – she saw a woman in her late forties hitting and kicking the dogs. As an eye witnesses later confirmed to the owner, the woman had run downstairs from the second story of her house to attack the dogs after her granddaughter, age 6, got scared of the sight of dogs coming toward her yard. There has been no evidence the dogs attacked her and no proof that the dogs meant to attack her prior to her attack on the dogs. The girl, like many children do, got scared at the sight of dogs running toward her yard and ran inside the first floor neighbor’s house with a scream. That is when Cynthia Reed, the child’s grandmother, came running down the stairs with something in her hand and started hitting the dogs as well as kicking them. Finding themselves under attack, the dogs reacted and bit her in self-defense. The scene immediately caught attention from neighbors.
While Miller arrived and ran to get her dogs, she was preceded by two guys who attacked the dogs – one with a baseball bat who kept hitting the dogs repeatedly while the other pulled over his car such that the dogs were trapped within a circle and had little way to escape. The guys beat the dogs with such force that they barked and whimpered in pain while the owner held a freighted and unsteady Reed to support her. Miller kept begging aloud to the guy with the baseball bat to stop hitting the male dog as the female dog had slipped away, finding a little space in the scene. Finally, the guy with the bat stopped after several cries from Miller begged him not to hurt the dog. When she got the dogs home, they were still shivering and whimpering, crouched in a corner from the trauma inflicted on them at Reed’s yard. Kato was brutally beaten and needed urgent medical treatment.
Kato and Kleo have never attacked anyone in their life. They didn’t attack the child either; and it has not been proven that the dogs meant the child any harm. Many children that age get scared of almost any harmless thing because of their appearance. This seems to have happened to the little girl in Miller’s neighborhood. But the way her grandmother responded by jumping to the assumption that the dogs were dangerous does not prove the dogs were so. And while the girl was secure in her house, the grandmother did not call the animal control or even police for help. She took matters into her own hands, ran downstairs to hit the dogs, making them scared and on the defensive.
The brutal beating of Kato and Kleo and lack of proof about any harm or intended harm didn’t stop the local animal control from seizing them and putting them on death row. Without a shred of evidence, and without an independent assessment by a certified dog behavior expert, the dogs were declared “vicious” and hence liable to be put to death. Miller appealed against this injustice to the Department of Agriculture and her appeal is being heard now while the non-profit The Lexus Project is representing Kato and Kleo in the court.
Will Kato and Kleo get free from the ongoing terror of victimization without reason? Can they be held responsible for defending themselves against human aggression? These are questions that will only be answered by the final decision on Miller’s appeal. What demands close attention at the moment is the fact that the case was misrepresented by a number of media outlets so as to make the dogs look vicious and thus making the story sensational with no regard for fact or objectivity or professionalism. But the facts underlying the brutal victimization of these two sweet harmless family pets will not remain hidden. More on Kato and Kleo’s case will come out including the role of media in the suffering which both the dogs and their owner have been going through for the past 7 months and the real motives of the neighbors in targeting the dogs.
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To this day people from all over have begged and pleaded for help. "NO ONE WILL STEP UP"! (WILL YOU)?! voice your outrage for these helpless dogs! Ms. Miller has reached the Federal court level in her fight to get her pups home! The attorneys, Connecticut Department of Agriculture and the Town of Hamden, Connecticut continue to file motions to delay the court. While they do this Kato and Kleo sit in their cages, 23 hours a day, 7 days a week! Please find it in your heart to join in anyway you can. RT, Share on Facebook, Sign The Petitions. Something is Always Better than doing NOTHING.
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