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Tweet When it comes to dog daycare there are many options. It’s important that you know how to choose the right daycare for your dog. Daycare can be a great outlet and learning experience for your dog, but if the facility has not trained their employees properly it can cause your dog to have behavior [...]
Tweet You have an all-day work event, your dog walker comes down with something and your back-up help is out of town. Then you see the ad for a local dog-daycare facility: “We can help! We offer 12 hours of fun and socialization for your dog.” The message is accompanied by cute photos of pooches [...]
Tweet Airline tickets? Check. Hotel accommodations? Check. Hold the mail? Check. Made plans for your pet? Heading out of town for a long-awaited vacation takes a lot of planning. If you’re a pet owner, you have the added task of ensuring that Heathcliff or Sasha is fed, exercised and well cared for while the rest [...]
Tweet The next time you’re going out of town, you don’t have to leave Fido with your slacker brother or at a kennel where the dog might be cooped up in a cage all day. With Internet start-up Dog Vacay, you can drop off your pooch at the home of a fellow dog lover. Hosts [...]
Tweet As much as pet owners may want to take their furry or feathered friends with them wherever they go, sometimes you can’t take them with you and finding a kennel or pet care service you can trust is paramount. That’s why Better Business Bureau has created a checklist to help pet owners choose a [...]
Tweet When Lisa Cook, a lecturer at the University of Central Florida, heads home to New Jersey for the holidays, she leaves behind a beloved family member: Stella, Cook’s Australian cattle dog, boards at an Orlando veterinary hospital. “They insist that Stella be vaccinated for bordatella [an infectious bacterial illness] and rabies,” says Cook. “I [...]
Tweet As Americans, we love our dogs. According to the American Pet Product Manufacturers Association‘s 2011-2012 National Pet Owners Survey: 78.2 million dogs are kept as pets in the United States 39% of U.S. households own at least one dog 60% of owners own one dog, 28% of owners own two dogs, and 12% own [...]
Tweet I recently became a dog person. My chiweenie — that’s a chihuahua/dachshund mix — came into my life a little over a month ago when my boyfriend adopted him from PAWS. Since then, we’ve learned that being doggie dads requires more work than gentle petting and a few scoops of kibble. Full Article >> [...]
