Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Momma Dog

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The most incredible thing about dogs is their ability to love and care for those in need.

Debby Cantlon, who plans to release Finnegan, the young squirrel, back into the wild, bottle-fed the infant squirrel after it was brought to her house.

When Cantlon took in the tiny creature and began caring for […]

Expert on Skin and Diet

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Question:
Name: Sue Kinnaird
Pets’ species and breed: Rottweiler
Pets’ age and weight: 18 months, 130lbs
Pets’ health status: good
Are they spayed or neutered? No
Brand of food: changing diets
He has a skin problem; itchy, flaky, like cerises. Smells and loosing hair, the vet gave me medicated shampoo, and said he had mites, so a bath once a week in […]

Question on Change of Diet for a Sick Pet

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The Question:
Name: Melodie Elston
Pets’ species and breed: husky/lab
Pets’ age and weight: not quite 2-47 lbs
Pets health status: diagnosed with histoplasmosis
Are they spayed or neutered? Yes
Brand of food: science diet-z/d
Animal owned for: 1 1/2 years
Nala has been diagnosed with histoplasmosis in the GI tract. My vet says this is rare but she has bloody diarrhea […]

Ask the Expert: Megasophagus and Diet

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Question:
I”m a loyal customer, and one of the reasons is that you seem to really care about keeping on top of the pet food field. One of my 4mo old puppies (frenchie) was just diagnosed with Megaesophagus - which is a bad thing. His is not bad, but I want to keep it that way. […]

The Perfect Toy

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Brilliant.

What is 2+2…?

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Have you ever seen an owner ask their dog a simple math question have the dog bark out the answer?
It’s not all that hard to learn. If your dog knows how to SPEAK and STOP on command, you should be able to teach them this trick!
The trick is to use a barely noticeable gesture, such […]

Faith

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Many of you may have already seen this, but no matter how many times I see it, this dog still amazes me.

This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002.  He was born with 3 legs - 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which needed to be amputated.  He […]

Another Answer from Sandra Miller

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The Question:
“Hi, my dog loves to eat and seems to never get enough; so I feed him 1 cup of dry dog food in the morning and evening with 1 1/2 cups of steamed green beans each feeding. Within the last 3 months he seems to not to have a lot of energy to […]