Pet Scoop -- 6/30/08
Make day on the water with your dog trouble-free -- Thankfully, the warm days of summer have arrived. With the beautiful weather comes the urge to go out on the water. Many of you choose to include your canine friends on the boat ride. Be sure to follow a few common sense guidelines.
Time to call the vet? -- Three-day holiday weekends are busy times at veterinary emergency clinics. While most of the animals who'll end up in emergency care over the Fourth of July weekend will be there because they should be, others have problems that could probably wait until the regular veterinary hospital is open again. If you're not a veterinarian yourself, it's sometimes hard to tell a mild health problem from an emergency.
Your pet and chocolate don't mix -- What is it about chocolate that makes it bad for your dog yet taste good to humans?
But every day, people spend money they didn't need to for emergency clinic trips they didn't have to make.
Knowing what's a true emergency and what's not can save you hundreds of dollars, since emergency clinics - like human emergency care - can be quite expensive.
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Posted by Molly & Jessie at June 30, 2008 7:03 AM