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Fur Kids Need To Brush Their Teeth Too!

While toothpaste and mouthwash companies are doing headstands trying to find new ways to sell their products, (Putting toothpaste and toothbrushes in colorful and funny-shaped containers to make teeth-brushing more fun with the hoped-for result of getting your kids to brush their teeth more often (read sell more product) or by putting a color trace in the toothpaste to show kids where they’ve missed a spot when brushing…), they should perhaps be spending more time highlighting the importance of dental health to a person’s general health. Why?

It is becoming more evidet that dental health is closely-related to overall health in a number of ways, though exactly how is still being studied. There seems to be a large correlation between poor dental health, heart problems, and ulcerated organs. Given the insanely-high costs of both dental and medical health, doing everything possible to prevent health and dental problems is critical.

Same thing with your fur kids… you pets. Brushing your pet’s teeth may sound like a

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!

Does Your Dog Have Rust Stains Down Its Face Like This?

Have you seen other dogs with those peculiar rust-colored stains below their eyes and down their faces? Like me, you no doubt wondered what that was from and thought, “This can’t be good.” It seems that our sense about these eye stains was correct. I did some investigation and found a some useful information about the causes of this eye staining in dogs, from Chiclet T. Dog, a dog who had this problem…

Fabulous horse is pet-of-the-month at MillionDollarPetPix.com

Xili, (sounds like silly) is a beautiful horse that has been chosen from the members of the PetPix Time Capsule to be featured for the month of September. Xili hails from Wyoming and is a sturdy, spirited yet gentle creature. Check out Xili’s story and photos here.

Despite the threat of a rainy day, dog owners and dog lovers spent the better part of Sunday at a park at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa to attend the 3rd annual dog picnic that was organized by and for B.A.R.K., the Bytown Association of Rescued Kanines.

Dogs of all shapes and sizes brought their people of all ages to play. The park was filled with the sights and sounds of canines and their people having fun. People wandered the park enjoying the many vendor stalls while others were involved in cheering as dogs and dog owners enjoyed the many planned activities for this canine picnic. The air rang with the sounds of applause for the dog races, the dog/owner look-alike contest, the dog howling contest, the best-costume contest and the musical/obedience contest. Great fun was had by all. The rain kept off until just near the end.