Happy Tails

01/08/2024

Happy National Labrador Retriever Day!
Comment a photo of your Labrador Retriever! 📸

01/02/2024

Thomas 🧶🐾

01/02/2024

Our team is growing!
Port Cities is currently looking for a full time CVT to come join our team!
If you or someone you know is a CVT and is looking for an exciting, fast paced clinic to call home- please reach out to our hospital manager.

01/01/2024

Thomas 🥰🐾

01/01/2024

Julian and Ricky

01/01/2024

01/01/2024

01/01/2024

Thomas and Brandon became friends instantly 🥰🐾

01/01/2024

12/31/2023

Thomas!!! 👅🐾

12/27/2023

Gunnar ⭐️🐾

12/26/2023

Callie 🫧🐾

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄

12/24/2023

Foggy morning with Gunnar 😶‍🌫️🐾

12/23/2023

Callie 😽🐾

12/22/2023

Truth!

12/22/2023

Hanging out with Gunnar the black lab 🐾

12/19/2023

To accompany the Fear In Dogs series I'm doing on my blog, today I'm releasing this helpful infographic: 5 Ways Fear Is Acquired In Dogs. Download your copy here: http://rescuedbytraining.com/fear-in-dogs-infographic/

and read the blog series here: https://rescuedbytraining.com/tag/fear-in-dogs-series/

12/06/2023

A cat's sense of smell is stronger than you think.

Did you know that what humans can smell from 10 feet away, a cat can smell 140 feet away, that's half the length of a football field. Their sense of smell also directly relates to their emotional comfort.

Cats can be triggered by spices, strong seasonings, citrus and even some fruits. More specifically, cats strongly dislike the smell of overripe bananas and essential oils, like tea tree, peppermint, cinnamon, pine, and winter green.

Keep your cat happy by making sure you keep anything with these scents far away from your cat's litter box and avoid using scented cleaning products around your house.

Do you notice that your cat has an adverse reaction to any certain scents? If so, share with your fellow feline-loving followers in the comments below.

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12/06/2023

The Yarmouth Toller?

Tollers as we know them today were developed in the rugged community of Little River Harbour in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, around the beginning of the 19th century. For obvious reasons, the breed in its early days was known as the Little River Duck Dog, or Yarmouth Toller.

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers were developed by early Scottish immigrants, a hardy people scratching out a difficult living in a strange new land. They developed their breed as a “hunter’s dog,” a breed that did most of what the owner wanted done with very little formal training beyond basic obedience, and they looked no further than nature to develop a unique hunting style.

In nature, a fox will cavort and play along a shoreline to entice waterfowl to come closer to investigate. Curious birds oblige and become easy prey for the fox. Drawing from this behavior, hunters trained their dogs to mimic the fox, a behavior that Tollers haven’t lost over time. The dog runs and jumps along the shoreline in full view of ducks, occasionally disappearing and reappearing. The hunter encourages this by throwing sticks and rocks very close along the shore so that the dog will skirt the waterline (a wayward throw may land in the water, but it isn’t the intent for the dog to swim to retrieve them). The dog’s playful actions arouse the curiosity of the ducks who are lured within gunshot range. The Toller is subsequently sent out to retrieve the dead or wounded birds. As far as we can tell, the only thing the dog doesn’t do in this entire process pull the trigger and cook the bird.

Photo of Emmet taken by Beth Adams in 2014 at the NSDTRC-USA National Specialty. As of this writing, Emmet will turn 13 on Christmas Eve!

Beth Adams
http://www.candidcaninephoto.com/

12/05/2023

12/05/2023

23.9K likes, 399 comments. “Spay and neuter your cats. They don’t deserve to go though what they do.”

12/03/2023

Milo 🏔️🥹🩷🐾

12/03/2023

⚠️ WARNING: RUG CLIPS ⚠️

If your horse has rug clips like these, ensure they are done up correctly, facing the horse. If not, they can easily get caught on hay nets, fencing and anything else your horse may find and potentially cause an accident.

12/03/2023

Maverick was so excited in this pic… too good not to share 🤣🐾

12/03/2023

Maverick and Milo 🏔️🐾

11/24/2023

Just because a TV dog or pup in a dog show appears to be the perfect pet doesn't mean they'll fit well in your home. Here's what you need to consider.