Crackerjack Canines

06/20/2025

06/20/2025

06/20/2025

Here's a smile for your day!


Cartoon by Leigh Rubin, Rubes® Cartoons.

06/20/2025

Snuggle & Play with SOS Prairie Rescue! 🐾🐱

📅 June 22nd
🕕 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
📍 Pet Valu Brighton
🎟️ Entry by $10 product donation

Join us for an evening of pure kitten cuteness! Come snuggle, play, and maybe even fall in love with an adoptable kitten from SOS Prairie Rescue. These little furballs are looking for their forever homes. They can't wait to meet you!

Bring your friends, bring your love for cats, and get ready for an overload of adorable. 💕

06/13/2025

06/13/2025

06/06/2025

Hill's Pet Nutrition is offering a 2 weeks supply of pet food to anyone who has been evacuated due to wildfires.

Please contact us at (306) 764-6998 or [email protected] for more information.

We are thinking of you all - take care and stay safe 🐾🐱❤

06/03/2025

If a dog receives every meal from a bowl it may mean missing a great opportunity to add some interest into their daily lives. In the past, the dogs and their ancestors would have spent a proportion of their time searching out food, and we can use this to include interest and give opportunities for them to carry out natural canine behaviours.

There are many food toys available for purchase, but they can be very expensive on a limited budget. The good news is that offering food-based enrichment doesn't have to involve spending a lot of money!

Three simple food games require no spending and are very simple to prepare, so they are easy for anyone to carry out.

Scatter some pieces of food or treats along the length of a towel/tea towel or some other piece of cloth and roll it up so the dog needs to unroll it and find the food as they go.

Scatter a portion of your dog's daily ration around the garden for them to sniff out. If you don't have a garden, you can hide the food around the house for them to find.

Keep carboard boxes and safe packaging materials like paper from any deliveries and hide food in the bottom of the box and scattered among the scrunched-up pieces of paper for the dog to hunt out.
The added bonus here is also that dogs who love to shred things can then also destroy the box and paper and the only inconvenience for us is the clearing up afterwards. (It is important to note that dogs who may attempt to eat the packaging materials should not be allowed to carry out the destruction phase as this could be dangerous.)

Not all dogs enjoy working like this for every meal - one of my dogs is fine to have one meal a day that he needs to search out but gets hangry and grumpy if it occurs more than once a day. As with many things, it's important to find out what works for your individual dog and keeps them happy.

06/02/2025