Blog Entries - August 2013
A Day at the Park
Posted on: August 28, 2013
The dog park--wild, fun times, or frightening free-for-all? It depends on who you ask.
There are a wide variety of dog parks out there. Some are fenced yards that are freely available to the public. Others require registration, a temperament test, vaccine
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Train to be perfect!
Posted on: August 21, 2013
They say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. That is just not true! Dogs, as well as cats, are able to learn throughout their lives.
Cats can be trained to do many activities, including sitting, rolling over, fetching, and doing agility obstacle
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Those few extra pounds...
Posted on: August 15, 2013
Obesity is a wide-spread problem in our country today, and, sadly, it is affecting our pets, too. In a recent study by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, 52.5% of dogs and 58.3% of cats are either overweight or obese. An overweight or obese pet will
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Got the Itch to Scratch?
Posted on: August 7, 2013
I can tell you from personal experience, listening to a dog jingle his collar from itching all night makes for a very sad dog and a very sad (and very tired) owner. Why do so many dogs feel itchy?
There are a lot of reasons our furry friends feel pruritic,
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