Nutrition

DO you consider nutrition for your pet.

Do you read labels?

By products
Processing
leftover fractions
antibiotics
steroids
artificial colorings
artificial chemicals
preservatives
hormones...they are all in there!

Read the labels and purchase healthy foods to keep your pet healthy and probably keep down the vet bills!

Pets in cars!

Please be sure when you take your pets for a ride in a vehicle that they are safe. Though everyone knows how much the old pooch loves to hang his little head out of the window... it can be very unsafe.

Mostly people are sure to keep cats in a carrier, but those little dogs are prone to be the driver! I see it all the time the dogs on the driver's lap helping out ????

Anyway I know it is funny and cute and they hate the carriers but there are many accidents each year and it is really sad when they are unnecessarily harmed.

Once in a while a nice drive in the country with no one around and little chance of a crash...i say go right ahead but through the city or on a highway..pet owners are really taking a chance. Even small crashes which do not harm people throw the critters through the windows and make their bodies like little projectiles!

There is a reason that there is a seat belt law...ugh and people make sure to buckle up for safety??? so what about our little furry friends?

Check out www.Kurgo.com. some very cool transport iseas and products.

Fun event for the critters we love!

Here is a great event for the critters!
http://www2.aspca.org/

Fleas? over the counter meds can be fatal!

If your pet has a flea problem please call your vet and discuss an appropriate solution. It is alarming that the products being sold over the counter can be SOLD???!!

Basically these products contain insecticides and can be extremely harmful to your pets even fatal.

My vet has said all brands but especially the more popular ones are confirmed unsafe maybe because they sell more and vets see more cases that are victims of these products but regardless, it is important that pet owners realize that just because something is available on the market that it is safe.

Again back to the vulnerability factor. Imagine how many pets probably suffer and get sick from this treatment that never visit a vets office.

This is definitely preventable please spread the word.

Funny new clothing line

Check out this stuff. haha. This is from the animal rescue site...
a line of clothing to help the critters.

http://shop.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/

Shark Fin Soup...you must be kidding???

While I was having lunch, the discovery channel was on in the restaurant. Shark week is this week which is usually quite interesting. A gentlemen waiting for his lunch to go began telling me about a time when he was in South Africa and he observed fisherman catching sharks, pulling them up along the side of the boat and then cutting off their fins and throwing back into the water. He said the process was very fast and that the fins are shipped off for high prices.

Needless to say I was mortified! Before sharing this such bizarre information I did the research to see if this could be verified. Please check out this site and there are others. If there is anything anyone can do by all means this should be halted at once. ( In my opinion)

http://www.sharkfriends.com/sharks/sharkfinning.html

Kittens

Kittens can carry viruses. If you bring a new kitten in your home and have other cats, be careful. Though a kitten may not exhibit any symptoms they can still be carriers of deadly viruses.

Protect your pets and yourself (cause some viruses can be passed to humans) when you are doing such a great deed. These viruses are highly contagious.

The best thing is to have the kitten tested asap.

Just as a positive note, there are some people who house and care for these animals which test positive for feline leukemia or aids.