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October is National Pet Health Month…

This month you can expect to see ads about pet health and pet care compliments of your local veterinarian. Participating veterinary clinics nationwide are hoping to educate us on pet health and the importance of having a health care plan in place for our pets.

The three-step pet health plan suggested includes:

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…

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…

As with everything else in the world, going to the vet with your pet may not be all that it could in terms of getting complete information. You may not get all the information you may require to make the best decision for your pet’s health. This is usually a result of what the age-old maxim tells us… “You don’t know what you don’t know.”

Despite poop-scoop signage, articles, comments from the public and good common sense, some dog owners are still making it tough on the rest of us by their negligence in picking up after their dogs. One wonders what else can be done to make the point…