Tails-On-Trails Fitness

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Fireworks have already started🥺…wouldn’t it be wonderful if we created a world where every Celebration includes the Happiness & Security of EVERYONE, from animals to veterans, to others suffering from PTSD.

06/30/2022

Fourth of July Plans...

06/24/2022

Help keep your babies safe, and help others know about the dangers of Foxtail grass.

Foxtail grass is found up and down the West Coast of the U.S. but has also spread across the country populating ALL but a few states. Foxtail grass is also found throughout most of Canada and it has equally lethal counterparts across the globe and goes by other names like, Spear Grass, Wall Barley, and Mouse Barley.

Foxtails are grasses with lethal seed awns (the foxtail- shaped tip of the grass blade containing seeds). Foxtails have barbed, razor-sharp needles that are extremely dangerous to our fur kids. Nature designed them to move in one direction—forward! They dig in and they do not dissolve or come out on their own.

Foxtails easily attach themselves to adventurous fur kids and can burrow deeper and deeper with every movement. Foxtails love paws and can easily become embedded (and hidden) between tender toes. They can work their way into ANY part of the body. Foxtail fragments can easily go up the nose and migrate to the brain. Inhaled foxtails can perforate a lung.

Foxtails that go unnoticed can require surgery to be removed. Embedded foxtails can cause infection, abscesses, swelling, pain, and death.

SAFETY TIPS: Stay out of areas with foxtails and make sure your yard doesn’t contain them. If your pet has mingled with foxtails, make sure to do a thorough inspection afterward because they burrow quickly and are hard to see sometimes: Brush coat, feel every part of the body with hands, and look closely at ears, nose, eyes, underbelly, between toe pads, and underneath collars. Also check inside mouth, around lips, and private parts! Pets can chew on foxtail grasses and get them lodged in gums and throat. They will not dissolve or work their way out!

Most fur kids who have access to the outdoors, from dogs to horses, can be harmed by foxtails, but animals with long fur, long ears, and curly fur can be especially prone to foxtail problems.

Stay safe,
xoAmy

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Space Day. 🤣

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Hey Buddy Comics 🤩

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Split decision.

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Did your dog go to this school?....

03/09/2021

Happy International Women's Day!