Blogs for your furry buddy 
How Dogs Communicate -the Love Language between us
If you own a dog, you know they possess marvelous communication skills. Apart from their vocalization and understanding of our words and commands, dog body language involves their posture, tails, head and eye gaze and using their paws to emphasize their point. Have you noticed when you stop petting your dog how they “paw” you…
When is a dog considered a Senior? You’ll be surprised at the answer…
If your dog is rounding the corner at 6 years of age, you may now own a senior (depending on the breed). VCA, with over 750 hospitals and 4700+ Primary Care Veterinarians explains it this way: “Pets age at a faster rate than people. It is a popular misconception that one calendar year equates…
How Stress affects Dogs & Cats
Life can be stressful! We can agree there is no limit to how busy we are and most of us are working hard to keep up with rising costs in these wallet-whopping times. Yet, we also need to think about how stress impacts pets. Did you know that dogs can SMELL our stress? Studies…
A Dog’s New Year Resolution List
As you consider your goals for the New Year, those inner-most visions for positive change and renewed health and vitality, take a minute to consider what your dog might want from you in 2023. As you fill in the calendar of a new year, please include your dog, or family of pets, regarding their…
Holiday Safety Tips for Pets
The holiday season marks the end of the year and fresh beginnings, with all the joys of gift giving and festive, family celebrations. Your pets are family too and should also benefit by the added gaiety of the holiday spirit. As you prepare your home for the holidays, please keep in mind that not…
Tips for a safe Thanksgiving with your Pets
Thanksgiving Is a Special Time of Year to Gather with Friends and Family and share a Feast of Foods. This can include family pets with some precautionary tips. What you need to know to keep your pets safe! Sadly, Thanksgiving can also mean an increase in emergency vet visits due to unsafe human food…
Safety Tips for a Fang-tastic Halloween!
As Halloween approaches and you prepare for the thrill of trick-or-treat, be mindful of a dog or cat’s reaction to the hubris. If your dog is used to seeing you and your kids in costumes, then it may not be a big deal when you deck out as “Darth Vader” and suddenly appear…
Pet Care Tips for Fall Weather
Following a hot, dry summer, the beginning of fall is welcome! As you prepare for seasonal changes, keep the following in mind to ensure safe pet care. Colder weather has many effects on our pets. They need to eat more to regulate body heat and offset what is (hopefully) increased exercise as you walk…
Do these Genes make me look fat? Dog Obesity is a HUGE problem!
While some dog breeds are more prone to becoming overweight or obese, nearly half of the nation’s dogs and cats suffer some level of tipping the scales beyond their breed standards. The Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) reports that 59% of cats and 54% of dogs suffer from excess weight. Dr. Jerry Klein, AKC…
Covid’s Impact on Pet Health
As we unpack the past 2 years, the requirement to embrace change became necessary during unprecedented upheaval. We found creative ways to entertain ourselves indoors and learned to Zoom. We’ve emerged from the Covid cocoon, yet what about our pets? Dogs born and/or acquired in 2020 were kept in isolation too. Robbed…