02/04/2025
February is Responsible Pet Owners Month! This month is a time to observe and raise awareness about the importance of responsible pet ownership, and encourage owners to ensure theyโre doing what they can to maintain healthy pets.
Just to name a few easy steps to ensure that your pets have a healthy style:
-Provide lifelong care for the pet or make reasonable efforts to transition care of the animal to another individual or group. This means committing to ensuring your pet's care for their entire life.
-Select pets that are suited to your lifestyle.
-Provide preventative care (vaccinations, flea/tick preventative, heartworm preventative, etc.).
-Provide appropriate food, water, indoor/outdoor shelter, living space, health care and companionship to promote pet health, safety, and welfare.
-Ensure pets are properly identified (i.e., tags, microchips, or tattoos) and that their registration information in associated databases is kept up to date.
You can find more steps to ensure that you and your pets maintain a healthy lifestyle at https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/avma-policies/pet-ownership-guidelines