Posts tagged Health

Fun Games For Your Cat

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Playing with your cat is a great way to bond as well as get in some good mental and physical exercise. Here is a list of fun games to play with your cat.

Holiday Tips for Pet Owners

holiday-cookies-sl-258954-lThe holiday season is often the most joyous time of the year. However, joy can turn to tragedy if simple precautions are not taken to ensure the safety of your pets.

“Pets are curious by nature,” said Dr. Steve Hansen, a board-certified veterinary toxicologist and senior vice president of The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Hansen, whose department also includes the ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control Center, asks pet parents to be mindful of their pets this holiday season.

Exercise for your dog and you

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The exercise not always is seen like diversion (at least by the humans). Some people would prefer not to do anything of horrible word “E”. It throws a look to your enthusiastic dog however, and thinks what amused would be to take a long walk by the block with him, or perhaps to play little with Frisbee (only you and your dog).
Your doctor surely has said to you that you make exercise. But, what there is of your faithful friend. Need an exercise regime also? Admit it; you two could take advantage of a very reducing long walk. There are not many people who can watch themselves at the mirror (or the face of the doctor) and not admit that perhaps, single perhaps, they could support losing some kilos.

Cats – Feeding Characteristics

The cat in the wild life, is exclusive a solitary hunter. With the course of the millenia it has acquired specific particularitities which nowadays continue being possessor as much in the plane of the nutritional behavior, like in the nutritional exigencies specific strict manifolds and. Therefore it is that: “the cat is not a small dog and less still a man”.
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In the characteristics of the nutritional behavior, supposedly original of the desert, he is a sober drinker (never it must need fresh and clean water), exposes which it more than to other animal, risks of dehydration and accidents of urolitiasis (feline urologic syndrome or disease of the covered cat), with respect to the concentrated urines the prevention imposes a very good dosage and an excellent mineral balance in the ration.

Owners Should Count Calories For Obese Pets

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You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet?

Dr. Susan Nelson, a veterinarian and assistant professor of clinical sciences at Kansas State University, said there are several guidelines to follow when feeding your pet to ensure that it maintains good health.

Life in dog years: More pets living longer

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Here’s some great news for all of us who can’t bear the thought of parting one day from our furry ones.

According to this story in the New York Daily News (apparently re-purposed from MSNBC), the average pet is living as long as 15.