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If you are living with a pet, you are probably doing your best to make sure that you offer a safe and welcoming environment where your beloved companion can feel at home. Even the most caring pet owners often fail to consider a rather overlooked danger: burn wounds. Many pets obviously spend most of their … Read more
We all love spending the long, sunny days of summer outdoors with our furry companions, but being overeager in hot weather can spell danger. To prevent your pet from overheating, take these simple precautions provided by ASPCA experts: Visit the vet for a spring or early-summer checkup. Make sure your pets get tested for heart-worm … Read more
Animals are prone to minor injuries like cuts, scrapes, and burns. In many cases, their thick skin and fur protect them from these things but accidents do happen. When they do, you want to clean and treat the wound as quickly as possible to prevent infection. Most people use Neosporin to protect their own wounds … Read more
It’s is normal and even expected that at some point your horse will get bit, scratched, cut or bruised during its life. Horses run, play around and roll in their pastures, get caught on twigs or fence rails, or scrape themselves on gates or stall walls. Most often these minor wounds heal quickly with no … Read more
Image source: CC BY-SA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=684259 Wound licking is an instinctive response in humans and many other animals to lick an injury. Dogs, cats, small rodents and primates all lick wounds. Saliva contains tissue factor which promotes the blood clotting mechanism. The enzyme lysozyme is found in many tissues and is known to attack the cell walls of many gram-positive bacteria, aiding in defense against infection. Tears … Read more
When Texarcana, Texas police responded to calls about a âvicious pit bullâ on the loose, they headed to the scene expecting a challenge.
What they found instead was a big, happy, goofy snuggle-nugget that had simply lost his way and just wanted some lovinâ!
He whistled for the dog and, to his surprise, the big squishy cuddle-bug came trotting over, tail-wagging, in hopes of scoring some loving attention.
The police department posted details to their Facebook page: âWell, this didnât go quite like we thought it would.
After we got a vicious dog call this morning, Officer Travis Frost spotted the dog laying on someoneâs front porch there.
He whistled at the dog, who then came trotting over to him with his tail wagging.
Travis said they just hung out together and took some pictures until an Animal Control Officer got there.
Travis said that, while you should always be careful around any dog that you donât know, you shouldnât automatically assume that all pit bulls are bad dogs.
They might be really loving like this guy was this morning.â Officer Frost hung out and snapped a few photos with the silly dog while waiting for Animal Control to arrive.
Although the friendly pup was microchipped, his registration was not current, so Animal Control officers werenât able to immediately reunite him with his family.
Learn to communicate with your dog.
Be clear and consistent in the rules you want your dog to follow and make sure everyone in the home follows those same rules.
That means allowing your dog to learn and grow at a pace thatâs comfortable and successful and taking your time to advance to tougher behaviors.
Reward your dogâs successes.
Because dogs generally repeat actions that are successful for them, reward-based training is a proven method for teaching the behavior you expect and desire of your dog.
Just be sure your rewards are given in response to good behavior and not used as a bribe to elicit the behavior you want.
Because dogs donât generalize well, itâs important to have training sessions in a variety of different environments.
One of the most important things to remember when training your dog is to keep it fun!
Make sure youâre having fun, too!
A happy dog thatâs having fun will not only learn faster, but will look forward to your next training session together, too.
United Airlines has finally unveiled their updated pet travel policy which, in an effort to drastically improve the safety of pets traveling in the airlineâs cargo holds, makes several changes, including the ban of more than 40 dog breeds from the service.
Following a series of mishaps that included the death of a family pet and several dogs loaded onto the wrong flights last March, United Airlines suspended their pet transportation service pending a complete review and overhaul of their PetSafeÂź travel program.
Among the changes, United Airlines will no longer allow any pets that are not either an accepted dog or cat breed.
Prior to the changes, the airline accepted all sorts of animals for cargo shipment.
Charles Hobart, a spokesman for United Airlines, told PEOPLE, ââŠprior to today, we flew all sorts of animals.
That will change moving forward.
The number of connecting flights between the departure and arrival city is also being restricted.
And, finally, the airline will no longer sell or provide travel crates at airport facilities.
Instead, a pet owner is required to pre-purchase an approved travel crate and stress the importance of allowing a pet ample time to become acclimated to the crate prior to travel, to reduce stress and anxiety while flying.
United Airlines is still reviewing their policies regarding pets traveling inside the cabin with their owners and will update those policies as changes are made available.
When you move, it can be a stressful situation.
All of the shuffling about and changing of the locations can breed excitement and uncertainty.
Especially for your dog!
For example, make sure that you keep things consistent by keeping their same bowl, bed and toys in similar spots in the new house.
Itâs also handy, before the move, to put out some boxes and bags to let your dog get used to them.
Then, when moving day has actually arrived, put your pooch in a safe space to ensure they donât run out the door.
If needed, keep them crated or have them spend the day at a friends house.
There are tons more things you can do to ensure your best pal is safe and calm during a move.
The moving experts over at HireAHelper came up with a complete list of tips to help your pet adjust during a move.
If you follow them you are sure to have a smooth and successful relocation!
From inspiring stories, breaking news, advice for dog moms and dads, and tips for training your furriest family members, a lot happens in a week!
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For many of us and our pets, spring is the best time to get out and have fun.