14 Tips to Help a Leash Reactive Dog
What is a leash-reactive dog? Your usually friendly dog starts barking and lunging when he sees or hears another dog or when a jogger or loud truck passes by. And you wonder what happened. After all, off a leash, he’s calm. Many dogs can ignore these sights and sounds and take them in stride. But a leash-reactive dog responds to certain stimuli at a higher-than-normal level of intensity. His reactivity is a result of the stress that he’s experiencing. Here are tips to help manage your dog’s leash reactive behavior: First,...
How Custom Dog Food Can Help Your Pup’s Health
Who says meal delivery is just for humans? The latest trend in pet nutrition is custom dog food, and it’s a great way to ensure your pet is getting the nutrition he needs to thrive. Not only is it healthy, but it’s also delicious, making mealtime the highlight of your dog’s day. There are a lot of choices for both custom kibble and wet food varieties. Typically, these dog food companies are subscription-based, where the food is shipped directly to your door in proportioned containers. Just like we humans, our pups can now...
Pain-Free Diabetes Testing for Dogs and Cats
This breakthrough technology means you no longer have to use a painful lancet to draw blood samples from your diabetic dog or cat. If you have a dog or cat with diabetes, you know that poking her with a lancet to get blood for a glucose sample hurts you almost as much as it does her. No one wants to cause their animal pain, especially when the goal is simply to help them live healthy, happy lives. Collaboration Is Born PetTest Genteel is quite literally the breakthrough technology diabetic dog and cat parents have been waiting for....
They’re No Strangers to The White House, and Other Fun Facts About Siamese Cats
Let’s face it. Most cat lovers – and probably a lot of cats – believe every day should celebrate felines. While we can certainly celebrate this way privately, there is one day in April dedicated to a specific popular breed: The Siamese! April 6 is National Siamese Cat Day. These cats, which originated in Thailand, were highly regarded by royalty in their native land. That may not be surprising, given their attractive looks, which come in four different varieties: seal point, chocolate point, blue point, and lilac point. To...
Horse Brothers React To Seeing One Another For The First Time In Years
We don’t give animals enough credit. They’re so intelligent, and they remember a lot more than we suspect. Just take Harley and Koda, two horse brothers, for example. Circumstances made it so they couldn’t live together. Even so, they never forgot each other – not even years later. Photo: TikTok/@wranglerbum Thankfully, Harley and Koda eventually had a sweet reunion and you can see just how much they remembered each other and missed each other! The video was posted on TikTok by @wranglerbum and quickly went viral, and...
Handsome Howard Has a Favor to Ask You. Please Say YES!!!
Meet Howard, a neutered chocolate-brown pibble mix with white markings and an adorably stubby snausage tail. He weighs approximately 63 pounds and is believed to be about 3 years old. Now that we’ve dispensed with the formalities, this incredibly handsome hunk finds himself in the difficult position of having to ask a favor of you: Would you please adopt him or share his story so he can find a forever home? He knows it’s a lot to ask, but he feels quite certain you’ll be glad you took a chance on him. Photo: Pima Animal Care...
Study Finds Anxious Dogs And Anxious Humans Have Similar Brain Activity
We often talk about how dogs and humans take on the same personality as they live with each other. Some people even choose pet dogs according to their personality if they match well. According to new research, there may be more truth in this than we thought possible. It can be seen in the way that both dogs and humans exhibit certain abnormalities in their brain patterns when they have mental health issues. Photo: Pexels/Dominika Roseclay After learning this information, it can have benefits for both dogs and humans when they are dealing with...
Senior Dog Survives Awful Pound Conditions Until Rescuers Arrive
We sometimes hear about dogs that live in terrible conditions, but we don’t often get the opportunity to see inside. That is not the case, however, for animal rescuers who spend their time saving dogs from such horrific conditions. This was recently seen in Sparta, Greece when animal rescuers arrived at a public pound. As shared in a video by The Orphan Pet, 400 dogs were living in the worst conditions imaginable, including a senior dog named Alma. Photo: YouTube/The Orphan Pet The conditions were so bad in the shelter that it was...
A Wobbly Stray Dog Finds A Place To Call Home
We really feel for the dogs that live on the streets. Some of them may do quite fine, and they are cared for by the kindness of strangers, but others have additional struggles they need to deal with. Such was the case with Matilda, a dog that suffered from cerebral hyperplasia. She was a little bulldog found wandering the streets and needed some help. Photo: YouTube/The Asher House Matilda is a tiny bulldog mix, and her condition, which affected the cerebrum, caused problems with her coordination. That part of the brain wasn’t fully...
Have You Ever Wondered Why Dogs Tilt Their Heads? Now You Know
There are many things to love about dogs, but one is how adorable they are when they tilt their heads while looking at you. It’s as if they are puzzled by your appearance, or perhaps they are trying to figure something out. We tend to humanize the animals in our homes when we see this behavior, but there are also times when we just want to know the truth about what is going on. Photo: Pexels/Julissa Helmuth Fortunately, we have science on our side, and two scientific studies were performed to determine why dogs tilt their head. Those...
