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05/29/2023

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01/31/2023

01/31/2023

So beautiful...

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01/08/2023

Reminder to never underestimate your cat. 🤣

01/08/2023

Sun Gazing

12/21/2022

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12/21/2022

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11/26/2022

Very true

08/28/2022

Today on Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day, we're wishing comfort and peace to all of those mourning the loss of a beloved furry family member. 💗🌈

08/26/2022

Cards for dogs

Credit: scott metzger cartoons

08/25/2022

This tick was kept in a sealed jar at a Vet's office to show people what a tick looks like. And then after months, even with no feeding, it was still able lay all these eggs.

This gives you an idea of how long a tick can lie dormant and just how many eggs one female can lay. It also demonstrates the necessity of staying on top of tick protocols for your pets.

08/22/2022

Ever noticed those slits at the sides of a dog’s nose? Why do dogs have them?

Once again, nature proves her elegance in the design of our dogs. When we humans inhale and exhale, air comes in the same way it goes out. Any smells that come in through our mouths are forced out as we exhale.

When a dog exhales through his nose, however, the exhaled air is released through those slits and off to the side so that nice, smelly air going into the dog’s nostrils doesn’t get diluted with the outgoing air. Put another way, the slits allow the dog to avoid smelling what he just exhaled.

The slits help the dog hold scent particles in the nostrils even as exhaled air passing out the slits creates a swirling air turbulence allowing interesting odors to be inhaled directly into the centre of each nostril. Since dogs breathe faster when trying to sniff a certain smell, they widen their nostrils to pull in more air which makes it possible for a dog searching for smells to have a steady stream of air coming in for up to 40 seconds, maybe even longer.

The slits also allow dogs to wiggle each nostril independently which gives them the ability to know which nostril a smell entered. This is how a dog can pinpoint where a smell is coming from, and why a dog searching for smells on the ground will weave back and forth as he follows a trail.

We all know the superb smelling abilities of dogs, but let’s use an analogy between scent and sight to really put it into perspective: What we as humans can see at a third of a mile, our dog can see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.

08/18/2022

What is the worst disaster caused by something your dog did?

08/13/2022

Friday Funnies

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Credit: off the mark cartoons

08/11/2022

Before you make your dog to do that really fun activity that you are sure that he will love doing, check out his body language.

Is he terrified? Does he try to run and hide? Does he just shut down emotionally and stay frozen in one spot? If your dog displays these behaviours then he is not having fun.

When this occurs, you have two options:

- your dog might eventually like doing the activity but at this moment he is overwhelmed, likely terrified and IS NOT ready for this experience. You can try breaking down the activity into its much smaller parts ( hear the sound of the water without going in etc.) and slowly work your way up to doing the whole activity.

- if even after slow desensitization and counter conditioning to the experience your dog shows fear or reluctance to do the activity, you may need to accept the fact that your water spaniel hates the water, your scent hound could not locate his own shadow, or that your husky hates being cold and could care less about pulling a sled. It happens.

Make sure that the activities you do with your dog really are enjoyed by him.

08/03/2022

While driving to the dog park on the weekend, I noticed that foxtails are developing their shaggy heads already.

Please do not let your dog wander through fields where foxtails are present. The grass seeds contained in the head of the plant are designed by nature to burrow into the ground. Unfortunately, these grass seeds can and do burrow into your dog's skin and open body orifices and then continue to burrow causing a lot of potential trauma in your dog's body.

The x-ray on the left is of a foxtail tract that was injected with contrast medium to show just how far a foxtail can travel.

The lesion between the toes of the foot on the bottom right is how these tracts will look to the naked eye. This is a great example of just how far foxtails can migrate in tissues.

Thank you to Dr. Andrew Grange from Veterinary Surgical Centers in Berkeley for this amazing x-ray.

07/29/2022

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07/24/2022

I hate to be an " I told you so" but ....

Credit: raeside cartoons

07/17/2022

Not even for a minute!