Potential Problems When Adopting a Rescue Dog
Before I begin, let me explain why I wrote this and let people know this was emotionally taxing.
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Cats Are Inspiring New Supercomputers
Cat owner Amy Morgan says that her cat, Ruki, often hangs out on her laptop. "I think he figures I spend so much time staring at it that if he sits there he’ll get more attention."
Read moreHow Patterns Can Get You Into Trouble
When you work in predictable patterns that create feelings of rhythm and relaxation, your horse begins to trust that you are a comfortable, safe place to be. You never surprise or startle the horse as you groom or lead or load him into a trailer or work under saddle because you always use a predictable, calm, rhythmic approach to whatever you do when you are with him.
Read moreHorses as Therapy
They’ve long been a symbol of peace and harmony with nature. They are known for their sociable, nurturing personalities, and their capacity for empathy. So it’s perhaps not surprising that doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other professionals agree that horses can help patients with a wide range of physical and mental health issues to experience themselves in a different way.
Read moreThe Blurry Line Between Equine Aids and Cues
As a horse works its way up the training tree, its handler needs to stay aware of the difference between an aid and a cue or signal. A lot of people mythunderstand the difference because the line between an aid and a cue gets blurry sometimes.
Read moreIntroduction to Canine Allergies
Up to 20% of US dogs are thought to suffer from canine allergies. In the worst cases, an allergy can severely affect your dog’s enjoyment of life. Naturally, it’s important to identify and eliminate the source of the problem, and to control the symptoms. But the good news is that there are plenty of treatments available, many of them remarkably effective.
Read moreThe Blurry Line Between Equine Pressures and Aids
We use a lot of terms in the horse industry and expect that everyone understands what we are saying the same way we mean it.
Read moreTop 10 Questions for Your Cat?s Veterinarian
You most likely prepare questions for your own doctor’s appointments, so why not do the same for your cat?
Read moreDogs in Therapy
There are many ways therapy dogs can help treat people of all ages in a wide range of settings who may have any number of physical or mental health difficulties.
Read moreHow Dogs React to Human Infants
When Lena Harris got pregnant with her second child, her German shepherd, Guinness, started acting overly attentive and clingy, as if he’d sniffed out the forthcoming addition to the pack.
Read moreHow Dog Food Is Made and Tested
The process of making high-quality commercial dog food involves scientists, nutritionists, veterinarians and even dog-food tasters in a production more befitting the Food Network than Animal Planet.
Read moreSummer Fun for Dogs
Murphy, a chocolate Lab and pit bull mix who was rescued from an animal shelter, is now one of the country?s top doggy dock divers.
Read moreAre Mischievous Cats Just Bored?
This scenario may be all too familiar: An unsuspecting cat owner comes home from work to find that his or her once well-behaved feline has tipped over a houseplant, batted everything off the home office desk and pulled a foot-long thread from the living room curtains. What’s the scoop? Simply put, kitty could be bored.
Read moreMeasure Your Dog’s Smarts
Most dogs behave in ways that may seem downright dumb. Drinking water from the toilet bowl. Eating grass. Sniffing the waste of other canines. But there are reasons for these behaviors: Dogs prefer cold water over stagnant water that’s been sitting in a dish, grass is natural roughage and may induce vomiting if they have a stomachache, and urine and poop are the newspapers of the dog world, communicating who did what where and when.
Read moreCat Food Ingredients: The 4 Essential Groups
Felines are true carnivores, so your cat needs meat. We, humans, on the other hand – along with our dog friends – are omnivores. This means we can survive on both animal and plant foods. But because of its physiology, a cat requires animal-based proteins and certain essential amino acids contained in meat protein in order to survive.
Read moreThe Easiest Way to Assess Your Cat’s Health
If your veterinarian were to ask you to take your cat’s temperature at home, would you know what to do?
Read moreStretching Techniques for Dogs
Like us, dogs benefit from stretching: Our muscle cells work the same. This fact inspired the Foster sisters – Sasha, a certified canine rehabilitation therapist, and Ashley, a certified pet dog trainer – to apply 20 years of research on human stretching to the canine world. The result is their book, The Healthy Way to Stretch Your Dog.
Read moreHow to Prevent Dog Bites
New York City graduate student Lacey Brown was walking her roommate’s German shepherd last fall when the dog lunged and bit an elderly neighbor on the wrist.
Read moreFrom Restless Feline to Sweet Dream Machine
When Christina Tourin’s kitten, Tag, is fast asleep, her meowing can be heard from several rooms away.
Read moreKitten Behavior Essentials
They say moving to New York City is tough, but the biggest challenge I faced during my first few weeks was unexpected: raising a kitten I rescued from the street, weaned off its mother prematurely. The veterinarian warned me that 3-week-old Andy was too young to survive away from his mother, but to me, Andy looked like a trooper.
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