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Pets as People

Today, more than ever before, we attribute human characteristics and personality to pets. This is fun and entertaining, though some cultures find this rather odd and even a bit disturbing. Nonetheless, when one sees the many expressions and mannerisms of their pets, it is easy to think of them as fur people.

Your dog always in or on your bed or your sofa?

Like many dog lovers, you may actually enjoy having your dog in your bed or with you on the sofa when you watch television. No furniture is out of bounds for your faithful canine pal. In fact, your special dog is one of the family and invited to use the family furniture. Dog beds are only for travel…

Dogs help with autistic children and so do dolphins!

Dolphin-assisted therapy could be great news for families who have children living with cerebral palsy, autism, brain damage, ADHD and Down syndrome. Therapy done in water with the aid of dolphins appears to produce dramatic positive results for children with these disabilities, according to research conducted by Dr. David Nathanson Ph. D.

He found that two weeks dolphin-assisted therapy was compared to the effectiveness of six month conventional physical and speech-language therapy!

Ready to throw out that dried up old toy mouse? Read this first!

The essential oils found in catnip are what creates the irresistible scents your cat so loves. After the cat has dragged the catnip scented toy around for long enough the catnip scent dries up.

A quick, easy and inexpensive fix is to simply soak the catnip-filled toy

A very disturbing email came across my desk today… one that made me physically ill. It was contained in a petition to try to bring awareness about a very cruel industry in China, as a way to help to stop it. The industry? Pet fur for use in garments… pet fur from little puppies who are actually skinned alive! I could not watch the attached video and do not have enough words to condemn this cruelty.Filling out the petition form on-line is a start…