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Create A Healthy Environment for Your Cat By Paul Hegarty Start by keeping your cat free of fleas and ticks. This is often more challenging in the outdoor cat. Be persistent and try various flea and … Read More
Caring Guide for Hamster Babies By Jalte Aimal One can’t just take his eyes off hamster pups, as these tiny cute little creatures will sure have your attention. Baby hamster are born without any fur and … Read More
Your Dog’s Anal Sacs (Glands) By Sandy Riordan My Personal Experience with Anal Sacs! Well, I know from an up close and personal experience that anal sacs are smelly when expelled! My sister-in-law and I had … Read More
Horse First Aid Pack By Jason Atilia Horse supplies run the gamut from grooming products to nutritional supplements. But there is an essential horse supply that you shouldn’t leave your barn, or your saddlebag without. Horse … Read More
Looking After Your Dog, Part Eleven – Older Dogs By Niall Kennedy The advances in medicine and veterinarian competence have significantly improved the life expectancy of pets. And this entails a rather new aspect in canine … Read More
Looking After Your Dog, Part Ten – Health Problems By Niall Kennedy Dogs can be inflicted with ailments, which can prove fatal if not apprehended early and treated in an appropriate manner. As far as canine … Read More
Veggies For Your Pets? By Sylvia Riley Vegetables in your dog’s diet, and minor amounts in your cat’s diet, can enhance their health and provide a rich and diverse supply of nutrients, enzymes, healthy fibre and … Read More
Canine Hip Dysplasia – Symptoms, Treatment and Surgery By Sally Doyle What is Hip Dysplasia? The hip joint consists of a ‘ball” on the femoral bone, and a “socket” on the hip bone. Canine hip dysplasia … Read More
Flea Control By Elizabeth Morgan Fleas are small insects that are capable of giving humans and their pets big troubles with a little stab of their proboscis. There are over 2,400 species of fleas worldwide, but … Read More
Your Dog’s Health – The Basics Every Pet Owner Should Know By Randy Jones Your dog is probably stronger and healthier than most humans that you know. However, by taking him from his natural environment, where … Read More
Basic Horse Care By Rob Daniels Horses are amazingly beautiful and sensitive creatures. Horses require not only understanding and patience to have a horse as a pet, it also requires a whole lot of care. Herd … Read More
Internal Parasites of the Horse By Randall Holman Internal parasites are a threat to the health of horses and may cause irreparable damage. Parasites are small organisms living a portion of their life cycle within the … Read More
– 9/11 Search and Rescue Dogs Complete Year 4 MRI Scans with Iams Search and rescue dogs are trained and relied upon to find survivors of devastating events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Oklahoma City … Read More
Dog Care: Keeping Your Dog Safe From Fleas And Ticks By Lisa Pallardy March 1 marks the “official†beginning of flea and tick season. Are you prepared? Fleas are the most common external parasites that affect … Read More
Let’s Talk Ticks By Doug Gelbert Let’s talk ticks. There are three things – OK, more than three thing – that I find people won’t believe, even after you prove it to them: 1) Warming up … Read More
Animal Care: Pet Pests Are Back! By Bill Knell While most Garden Buffs can hardly wait for spring and summer to arrive, many pet owners fear this lovely time of year. They know it’s the beginning … Read More
Can Your Dog or Cat Catch Babesiosis? By Rob Lester Babesiosis, also called piroplasmosis, is a type of anemia caused by parasites that can be transmitted to dogs or cats by ticks. It can also be … Read More
Ticks – A Very Serious Threat To Your Dog’s Health By Randy Jones Ticks are not insects like fleas, but arachnids like mites, spiders, and scorpions. A tick has a one piece body, harpoon like barbs … Read More
First Aid: Tick Removal Below is ‘removal instructions’ according to Wikipedia … Personally, I just like to grasp the tick as close as I can to the base of the body, then pull it out slowly … Read More
Ooooh Noooo! It’s Those Nasty Wooden-Eh-Ticks Again! Well, I suppose you have to be here, to both LISTEN to the way I say that to Maxxie and Sophie, our two Papillon dogs, or to WATCH how … Read More
Heads Up from: Freddie who says …. Ruff ruff, ruff ruff ruff. Ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff. He’s such a smart dog to find these type of projects! According to the The Dog Genome Project … Read More
Got Pets? 10 Tips to Keep Your Home Fur and Odor-Free! By Ariane Benefit If you have a dog or cat, living with pet hair and fur is a fact of life. But there are ways … Read More
The Forgotten Art of Fish Tank Cleaning By Keith Londrie Anyone who buys a fish tank can’t help but get excited about the setup process, and the selection of the fish. But many sometimes forget about … Read More
7 Tips to Keep Your Cat’s Litter Box Smelling Fresh! By Ariane Benefit Is there anything worse that having a guest come into your home and instantly say “Oh, you have a cat?” And the cat … Read More
How to Disinfect the Bird Cage By Geomil Georgiev Before setting the bird into its “ lodging †you should do something else Never the less that the bird cage is new , and the perches … Read More
This is Part 3 of 3 of articles about Heartworm disease, originally posted at ThePetCenter.com by Diana Beam, DVM. Heartworm disease in dogs and cats: In many areas of North America, April is the time of … Read More
This is Part 2 of 3 of articles about Heartworm disease, originally posted at ThePetCenter.com by Diana Beam, DVM. Heartworm disease in dogs and cats: In many areas of North America, April is the time of … Read More
This is Part 1 of 3 of articles about Heartworm disease, originally posted at ThePetCenter.com by Diana Beam, DVM. Heartworm disease in dogs and cats: In many areas of North America, April is the time of … Read More
We took Maxxie and Sophie to the Vet May 8, 2006 Every spring, we take our two dogs to our vet and have an annual checkup performed. We do this mainly to get those HEARTWORM pills … Read More
Caring for Your Older Dog By Lisa Pallardy The changes your dog goes through as he ages are natural and are, in fact, very similar to those same changes we, as humans, experience. For instance, with … Read More
How to Remove a Tick from a Dog By Mary Casey Your dog comes in from a romp in the woods and settles down on your lap for a belly rub when you feel gasp a … Read More
Keep Your Pets Fit and Healthy By Paul Cris All living beings have common necessities of air, water and food to survive. Similarly, they need to be physically fit at all times. Only the exercise programs … Read More
