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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…

In San Francisco since1996, biodegradable poop bags are placed in dog parks for people to deposit dog waste in special bins. The poop is hauled to a methane digester to be combined with plant material, which works like a composter. Microorganisms gorge on the waste, producing methane gas, biogas. That is used to make electricity or burned in place of natural gas.

Did you know that an estimated 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs each year? An ad that often runs for a US lawyer recently claimed to have won a settlement of three hundred thousand dollars for a client whose child had been bitten by a dog.

If your pet becomes upset whenever you must leave, your pet may have separation anxiety.

One of the first things to do is to check to see if the “acting out” is actually due to separation anxiety or if it a symptom of something else. We suggest the excellent behavior tip sheet found on the HSUS site which can help you to determine if your pet is suffering from separation anxiety or not.

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While pet rental appears to be popular in the US where FlexPetz now operates, (New York, Boston, San Diego and Los Angeles, there is an outcry in Britain led by Robert Brown MSP (Lib Dem, Glasgow Region) and championed by the Kennel Club as FlexPetz tries to expand their operations overseas.

For those people who would really love to have a pet around but for one reason or another cannot provide adequate full time care, this service could prove (and is proving) to be important. Is this wrong? Selfish? One just has to think of the excellent response to “visiting pets’ from the elderly and hospital shut-ins of all ages to understand the value of a part-time pet.