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Protect Your Pet With a Safety Collar
Terrible accidents can happen to our wonderful pets by not being cognizant involving their pet collars. Pet collars are for pet outings, and walks with their pet parent, or around the house. Identification tags are
attached to the pet’s collar with medical information, pet’s name, name of pet parent and telephone number. Some tags contain their veterinarian’s name and phone number as well. If your pet were to get lost, the necessary information would be on their collar for locating their pet parent with information to notify them where to find their pet. Pet collars should not be too tight around their neck, and you should be able to put two fingers between the collar and the dog’s neck.
However, there should be precautions taken if your pet has their own kennel and/or crate. This is their place of sanctuary but accidents can happen. Accidents have happened to pets that were in there kennel and/or crate and strangled themselves. Trying to turn around in their quarters that are too small is a dangerous situation. The size should be measured according to the size of your dog. Their tags or collars can hook on something and cannot get loose. This is not something you as a pet parent want to see. Pet parents need to be aware of such a problem, so a dog safety collar, especially a dog breakaway collar should be part of their accessories. It is not such a big deal to have several collars anyway. Use the breakaway collar when they are in
there kennel/crate, or even wear it around the home, just in case. Dog breakaway collars are affordable and could avoid a catastrophe, but these types of collars are not be used to socialize your dog or out for a walk. They may become excited over other dogs or even sometime humans and break away. Dogs can detect danger. Depending on the surroundings where they play or wherever you feel comfortable will relieve the pet parent from worrying about the safety of their dog. Seems as though there are precautions on everything these days, so by using the correct dog safety collar at the appropriate times, your pet will be safe. One other thing to consider is if your dog’s eyesight is not as good, a lighted collar is sure handy for walking your dog at night, and vehicles will be aware of you and your dog. Be Happy!
Hiking with Your Dog Can Be Fun
Hiking has become popular in many states, and pet parents want to take
their dogs along for fun and exercise. Sometime just getting away from the normal routine of everyday life is rejuvenating, for both you and your pet. There are many wonderful experiences in observing nature and breathing fresh air, but there are precautions that need addressing. One concern in being safe is not to use your flexi-leads for hiking. Your dog could get tangled up and cause more concern than it is worth. Use common sense and never allow your dog to run loose if the area has rules regarding unleashed dogs. If free running is permissible, training your dog to be obedient to all of your commands will pay off. If not, there could be a real problem. Just be safe and have fun.
Make sure all of your dog’s veterinary records are up to date, and all identification tag information has the current pet parents’ phone number, name of dog, rabies tag, and your cell phone number. Attach the tags to the dog safety collar or their dog harness. Losing your dog is an awful experience and should be a concern for taking precautions. Take water along for you and your dog to prevent dehydration, but do not allow them to
drink out of streams, lakes, or ponds. The water can be contaminated with parasites or toxins of some kind. Don’t forget to take along baggies to clean up after your dog. Do not think just because you are out in the woods they can poop anywhere, and you do not have to pick up after them. When your hike is over and you go home, be sure and check your dog for insect bites, ticks, and other crawling insects. You want this to be a joyful adventure for just the two of you, so just take care and observe. Be Happy!
Doggie’s Countdown to Christmas
Oh boy, I can hardly wait because Christmas is just around the corner, and I must be a very good doggy today, because my pet parents are going out Christmas shopping. They always get me really neat things to play with, and
many varieties of treats. I have my own Christmas stocking with my name on it, which shows how important I am. I get to open my own gifts too. That darn Christmas ribbon is a pain, but I try to be patient which is so hard to do. I just want to get right in there and start tearing the wrapping paper off, but my pet parents keep close watch over me so that doesn’t happen, so I try and be careful. It would be an awful mess for them to clean up. This year I think I may get more presents than last year, because I was just a puppy and sometime didn’t always obey the commands that I was trying to learn, but as I became an almost grown up dog, I learned to do better.
There are so many different toys to play with after the Holidays, it becomes difficult in choosing which one that I want. Rubber balls, frisbees, pull apart
toys, (have you seen them, they are fun to play with), and squeak toys that sometime sound awful. Well if I could ask for something that I really wanted, it would be great, so maybe after a considerable amount of thinking, my pet parents may come up with the idea of a safety lighted dog collar . I would feel much safer at night when my pet parent takes me for a walk. It does get awful dark out there, but with a lighted collar, I could be seen far enough away to stay safe. Be Happy!
Doggie Goes To Grandma And Grandpa’s For Thanksgiving – Part 1
Visiting Grandma and Grandpa during the Thanksgiving holidays can be very taxing if your favorite pet doesn’t know how to behave them selves.
This is especially true during visits to Grandma and Grandpa’s house when they are elderly, but still want to be around your pet and love them as well, or almost as well, as you do. They have accepted the idea of bringing your pet along for the visit, but you don’t want them to dread their decision on accepting your dogs presence. Put on their fancy pet safety collar and inform them in doggie terms that they must behave.
Jumping up can be disastrous if the dog knocks them down. Poor dog doesn’t know any better if they have not been trained in greeting visitors to your house, or visits to other people’s home. If you don’t start training your
puppy early, then expect to have problems later. This is for anything in training a dog to behave them selves, and understanding that it is a pleasure in obeying their pet parents’ commands. There are several things that should be exercised during their training. When they obey a command, tell them what a good dog they are, praise them, pet them, and show your love. Always be firm when training is in session. They will sometime do silly and really funny things, but it’s just like teaching a child to behave. DON”T LAUGH! Don’t always give them a treat to do what they know they are suppose to do. But, if you want satisfaction in understand what the training is all about, be yourself and be persistent. You will be rewarded for your efforts. Be Happy!
Doggie Goes To Grandma And Grandpa’s For Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving with grandparents who live out of town will require traveling time for families that want to be together. When making preparations for the trip, the first thing to consider in long trips is if your dog if up to traveling, and has had experience in doing so. Training at the last minute is
not recommended. The next thing would be to ask if it is okay to bring your pet friend along? Knowing how grandparents are, some will say absolutely, but others may want to say yes, but don’t have the place or the room to accommodate a pet. Negative feelings on their decision should not be considered inhospitable, and their decision should honored.
If it is possible for all of you to be together for the Thanksgiving celebration, then there are necessary things the pet parent will need to do. Pack their food they are accustom to, bottles of fresh water, any medications, their blankets, treats, and their favorite toys. Veterinary records should be taken
along in case of an emergency for medical treatment. Some crossing of state borders may require them as well. Make sure that the dogs collar, whether it’s a lighted dog collar that can be detected at night, or just a plain everyday collar, has all of the identification information necessary just in case they were to get lost. (See Part 1 for more info) Be Happy!
How do we do this? As pet lovers – we are devoted in helping our pet companions have a long and healthy life by doing the things that we know best to do for them. Make sure they have a healthy diet, train them to be proud and obedient, keep up with all of their vaccinations and checkups, keep them groomed, give them exercise, play with them, give them their medications that have been prescribed in case of sickness or diseases that may happen during their lifetime, and always be cognizant of their whereabouts.