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DIY Tips for Keeping Your Pet Cleaned or Groomed

DIY Tips for Keeping Your Pet Cleaned or Groomed Have you ever watched your dog/cat roll on the ground, lick its tail or fur? It’s trying to keep itself clean. But sometimes, they will also need an EXTRA help from you to keep itself cleaned and groomed. They might not be comfortable getting touched or handled at first and you need to make it a habit of petting her sensitive parts such as ears, belly, back, feet and tail before she feels at ease with you. Once your dog or cat is comfortable with your touch, here’s how …

Pet Be Cool on Pet Sitter Watch

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Help Your Pet Be Cool This Summer Your pets need to stay cool while you are away and your pet sitter is watching them too! It’s great to enjoy summer with your pet. It is also a time when we travel on vacations and your favorite pet sitter is coming to your home to care for your beloved pets. This is the greatest time when your pets have the greatest risk of injury due to heat-related health problems. As a pet sitter I find that sometimes people turn off everything and lock up tightly before leaving with Fido in …

Pets Prefer Pet Sitting

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Paws down, pets prefer pet sitting! Pet sitting is a substitute to the kennel, with the bonus services offered that go beyond those of a kennel. A skilled pet sitter attends to your pets in the comfort of their home. Your pet sitter will make you feel comfortable knowing someone reliable is taking care of your pet and house. Pet sitting is the best alternative to boarding or kenneling a wide variety of pets who are now members of your families. Pet sitting services are set up so that one phone call provides your solution for your pet care when you are …

Prevention of Lost or Missing Pets

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Take some preventative measures! To help if your pet (Dog or Cat) ends up missing or lost. The following suggestions for the Prevention of Lost or Missing Pets can save you, your pet sitter and your pet from a broken heart. For you, your pet sitter and your pets sake make sure your pet wears some form of identification. You might want to permanently identify him by having him tattooed or having a special microchip identification device implanted underneath his skin. Your pet is then automatically registered with an identification service. Information on Microchip Information on Tattoos Information on Pet ID …

Valentine Healthy Recipes for Your Dog

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Be My Valentine Recipes to show your love! Valentine Healthy Recipes for Your Dog: Yummy to the Tummy! Biscuits, Bark-tastic Cake, Pet Party Coolers, Healthy Veggie Bones, Look’n Lean Liver Treats, Banana Mutt Cookie If your Pet has a pre-existing medical condition, consult your veterinarian before adding a new food to his or her diet. Biscuits Try this recipe for Good Puppy Cookies—your pooch will love you for these! Ingredients: ½ c powdered milk 1 egg – well beaten 2 ½ cups flour ½ tsp. garlic salt 1 ½ tsp. brown sugar 6 Tbs. gravy 1 large jar baby food …

Great Ideas: Pet Owners Plan For Pet Sitters

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Below you will find help to be prepared in our blog post: Pet Owners Plan for Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers. Before leaving for your trip, it is best to equip your sitter with what she needs to know. This will help her perform her tasks better and make things easier. First and foremost, it is a good idea to have a meet-and-greet session where your pet can meet his sitter. This is so they can get acquainted with one another and you can decide if it is a good idea to leave your pet with this sitter. If …

Heart Expansion After Pet Loss

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My story of my Heart Expansion After Pet Loss After the loss of my beloved Griffey, the Pekinese at 3 years I thought my heart could not take the loss of another pet and decided no more dogs. My husband and friend since I was seventeen, who knew me better than I did myself during my grief, came home one day with the cutest little Pekinese puppy. When I first laid eyes on her I wanted to put a wall around me. She had Griffey’s coloring, only her little face had a larger black mass. You could hardly see her dark eyes for …

Pets: Bite-Proof Your Children

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Bite-Proof Your Children Warm weather means kids on the move. Children on bicycles, skates and skateboards explore new places and come into contact with different sights, sounds, people and yes, animals. . . To prevent upsetting or even tragic situations resulting from active children encountering strange dogs, teach your children these rules about how to behave around dogs. Dogs do not like to be teased. Stay away from dogs that are chained or in fenced yards. Do not shout, run around, or stick hands at dogs through fences or open car windows. Never approach a strange dog. Dogs …

PET OWNER STATISTICS

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Did you know? PET OWNER STATISTICS Dogs Statistics There are approximately 77.5 million owned dogs in the United States Thirty-nine percent of U.S. households own at least one dog Most owners (67 percent) own one dog Twenty-four percent of owners own two dogs Nine percent of owners own three or more dogs On average, owners have almost two dogs (1.7) The proportion of male to female dogs is even Nineteen percent of owned dogs were adopted from an animal shelter On average, dog owners spent $225 on veterinary visits (vaccine, well visits) annually Seventy-five percent of owned dogs are …