Tips For Curing Your Dog’s Boredom
While dogs are usually quite good at entertaining themself, it doesn’t mean that they don’t experience boredom from time to time. If you’re not sure if your dog is experiencing boredom, or if you know that they are but aren’t sure what to do about it, read on! How can I tell if my dog is bored? Dogs don’t often hide the fact that they are bored – they actually try to make their feelings very clear. A few of the telltale signs of dog boredom include: Destructive behavior: Dogs that are experiencing boredom...
Why Is My Dog Drinking A Lot of Water?
Keeping hydrated is important for all of us — our dogs, too. How much water our dogs are drinking can actually tell us a lot about their general health. Excessive thirst in dogs can result from something as simple as recent exercise to a more complex underlying medical condition. Dr. Annette Louviere, of Wisdom Panel pet DNA testing service, says that while dogs can normally change their water intake from day-to-day, any fluctuation that persists or any sudden, drastic changes in their habits could be an indicator of an underlying...
The Right Way to Teach Your Dog to Swim
Teaching your dog to swim is easier than you might think. These four steps help ensure success. You’ve recently welcomed a new dog to the family. The weekend forecast calls for hot sunny weather, so you’re heading to the lake house and taking your new addition along with you. But what if you’re not sure your dog can swim? What’s the best way to teach him? While getting him to execute the butterfly stroke might be a bit out of reach, he’ll get the doggy paddle in no time if you go about it the right way. For...
Baby Clydesdale Horse Sees The Sun For The Very First Time And Loves It
Although many of us show love to any animal, we have a special place in our hearts for the baby animals in the world. After all, they are like miniature versions of the adult animals we love so much. It isn’t only the fact that they are smaller versions of bigger animals, we also appreciate the innocence and love that these little creatures can show us well. Sometimes, we may even live vicariously through them as they discover new things in life. Photo: YouTube/TayHay InTheWind That is the case with a Clydesdale foal, who was born at a...
Sick Pooch Can’t Eat So His Owners Create Special Chair To Help Her Flourish
When we have a dog in our life, we want to do everything we can to keep them happy and healthy. This often means providing them with a warm place to sleep and some good food to eat. There are times, however, when much more is needed. According to TODAY, Daisy is a dog that needed some additional assistance. She started to show signs of a respiratory problem but when her owners took her to the veterinarian, they found out that there was something much more difficult behind it. Photo: YouTube/Doug Jones Daisy was diagnosed with myasthenia...
20 Strangers Help Lost Dog Found 2000 Miles From Home
One of the most difficult issues that a pet owner would ever have to go through is when their animal disappears. In many cases, they aren’t gone for very long before they are back home again but sometimes, they disappear and are gone for a very long time. It can be a very frightening experience. At first, we put up signs and comb the neighborhood to try to find them but eventually, our hope begins to fade. In the back of our minds, we hope that they are doing well and return but there is only so much we can do at that point. Photo:...
Abandoned Dogs Are All Wags When The Rescuers Come To Help
Our hearts really go out to abandoned animals. They have so much love to give and unfortunately, the people who had them previously did not see it in their hearts to give them a good home. In some parts of the world, it is relatively common to see animals living on the street. In other parts of the world, it is not quite so prevalent but it does happen from time to time. Photo: YouTube/DAR Animal Rescue The two dogs in this story were abandoned in Greece. People had seen them in the area for a few weeks and had reported them, but they...
City Refuses To Allow Retiring Police Officer To Keep His K-9 Partner So Community Step In To Help
There are rules in place and all of us have to live by them. Sometimes the rules make sense and they protect us in one way or another. At other times, we wonder why they are a rule in the first place. This came up in an interesting way back in 2016 when a 57-year-old police officer was getting ready to retire. According to NBC News, officer Matthew Hickey had spent 30 years serving the community in Marietta, Ohio on the police force. Photo: GoFundMe After retiring in 2016, he was looking forward to spending his free time with the K-9 officer...
Dog Attempts To Snack On The Dashboard And Puts The Car In Drive
For many families, dogs tend to be homebodies, but for the Shearn family, it was time to take the dog along with them. According to The Dodo, Paul Shearn was headed for his grandparent’s farm along with his family and they had Elvis along with them. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Elvis was with Paul when they went to the store to prepare for the trip. While they were away, the family was going to do some cooking and Paul had some bacon grease ready for seasoning a cast-iron skillet, so he put it in the car. As you can imagine, there...
Internet Community Helps Locate Hundreds of Missing Dogs Each Month… and Has Some Tips
When dogs went missing in the past, relocating them was a bit tougher, since you could only rely on word of mouth, a missing poster here and there, or maybe an ad in a publication. Now, the internet makes it much easier to spread the word, and the members of one online community use the internet to facilitate happy reunions hundreds of times a month. Lost Dogs of King County, located in the Seattle metro area, offers both a Facebook group and a helpful website. Launched by James Branson, founder of lost dog nonprofit Useless Bay Sanctuary,...
Man Stops To Buy A Soda And Ends Up Saving A Dog In The Process
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to rescue a dog before, you realize that it is a two-way street. We may give the dog a good home, plenty of food, and a family but they end up giving us love beyond compare. Nobody knows this better than BJ Nemeth. He is known for traveling around and reporting on poker tournaments throughout the United States with his trusty companion, Brisco. Brisco normally sleeps in the backseat, but when we come to a stop, he thinks it’s time to get out and comes up front. “Are we there yet?”...
Sick Sea Lions Stranded on Oregon Coast Could Impact Health of Dogs, Officials Warn
On Halloween, wildlife officials off Oregon’s coast sent out a warning to dog owners that their pets could be impacted by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a naturally occurring bacteria that can occur sporadically in marine mammals. Unfortunately, the bacteria can also sicken other wildlife — not to mention humans, dogs, and livestock, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife informed the public. They noted that while the risk to humans is slight, dogs have a higher chance of getting the disease. Photo: Pixabay/mcgrout Oregon Sea...
Pet Parent Gets Hit with an $8,000 Vet Bill After Family Weimaraner Gulps Down Rock
A family from Porth in the Rhondda, Wales region of the U.K. were alarmed when their Weimaraner, Milo, started throwing up and bleeding. Naturally, they whisked the stricken animal to the vet to find out what was causing the symptoms. Once they arrived, the veterinarian asked if he had possibly eaten anything he shouldn’t have. One of his owners, Shannon Stone, noted that the four-year-old occasionally chewed on socks, but hadn’t seen him eating anything out of the ordinary recently. Emergency Vet Clinics The vet soon did a scan...
Dug Up at Dogster: November 2022 Dog Events and Dog Holidays
November is packed with howl-worthy events, including the National Dog Show, which airs on Thanksgiving Day. Show us how you and your #dogsterdogs are enjoying your Thanksgiving by tagging us in your photos on social media. Don’t see your dog event on the list? Email us at dogstermag@belvoir.com and we will include your dog event. The National Dog Show, presented by Purina, airs on Thanksgiving Day. Month-long dog holidays, November 2022 Senior Pet Adoption month Pet Awareness month Pet Cancer Awareness month Pet Diabetes month Weekly...
The Easiest Way to Manage a Dog’s Sensitive Tummy!
Food is the most common source of sensitive stomachs for dogs. Even if you don’t know exactly what’s triggering your pup’s discomfort, Tilted Barn Pet Co. food could be the solution! They use single-source proteins and simple ingredients for their fully cooked food recipes, so they’re easy on tummies. Seeing your four-legged bestie in pain and discomfort is devastating, especially when their suffering happens because of something they’re eating. The easiest way to help a pup with a sensitive tummy is to feed them...
Best Dog Toys for Your Dog’s Personality
Quite simply, the best toy for your dog is the one your dog likes best. But getting to that point does require you to candidly assess your canine’s personality. Toys for dogs put the capital D in diverse in terms of price, size, durability and purpose. But there is no need to feel a case of canine confusion. Dogster reached out to a few pet experts who readily unleashed some great advice in choosing the most appropriate type of toys for your dog’s unique attitude. Matching dog toys to dog personalities Dogs, like people, display...
Maddie’s Insights: Takeaways from pandemic-era emergency pet fostering
Join Dr. Lisa Gunter, PhD, CBCC-KA, Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University on Thursday, November 3rd at 12:00PM PT/3:00PM ET for a Maddie’s® Insights webcast on foster recruitment, trial adoption programs, caregiving practices, and behavioral support that can be utilized in our post-pandemic world. “Emergency fostering during the pandemic; Takeaways for a post-pandemic world,” will run for 60 minutes. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization deemed the coronavirus outbreak a worldwide pandemic, and...
The Terrifying Black Shuck of English Folklore
Regardless of which country you hale from, there is bound to be ancient folklore surrounding animals and humans that were otherworldly in the eyes of the people that inhabited those times. Always searching for something to explain that which they feared or didn’t understand, a lot of it focused on cats and dogs. This didn’t bode well for animals if their coats happened to be black. As scientists now know today, the gene for black coats is the most common. Back then, however, anything and everything could arouse suspicions of...
Family Dumped Their 19 Year Old Dog At A Shelter, Now She’s Living Out A Bucket List
Dogs are 10 to 15 year commitments and become part of our family. They have so much love to give and should be loved until the end of their lives. Sadly, Annie’s family decided to surrender her to a shelter when she could no longer walk or eat. She is 19 years old and at the end of her life, yet they chose to give up on her. When Lauren Siler saw Annie’s sweet little sad face sitting in her kennel in a picture that was posted on Instagram by the shelter, she knew she had to help. Photo: YouTube/WFAA When Siler acquired about...
New Study Says Baby Talk with Cats Actually Works
A recent study conducted by French researchers points to baby talk as being a good way to converse with your cats. Let’s face it, most of us are guilty of baby-talking to our pets, anyways. We can’t help it. Pets are like our kids, so it would make sense that that’s how we’d engage with them. Now, you don’t have to feel silly or guilty about it if you get caught doing it. Just point to the research and go about your day. Baby Talk According to the study, the researchers conducted three rounds of testing using 16...
