Indoor/Outdoor Feline Funhouse -- Convenient and Versatile Cat Enclosure
The Outdoor Feline Funhouse will allow your indoor cat to safely enjoy fresh air and sunshine. It is a one-piece unit that folds quickly and easily and stores flat in its own zippered carrying bag. Convenient and versatile:
Place on your deck or lawn
Camping and RVing with pets
Use indoors to separate pets, or them keep confined
Keep an ill / recovering pet temporarily contained and quiet
Two heavy-duty zippered doors provide easy in and out access
Weather resistant nylon netting allows the free flow of air and visibility
The Outdoor Feline Funhouse is durable, lightweight, portable and easy to store. Stakes and weight bags are included for extra stability. Great for travel!
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.
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.
Faithful Friends TV -- Super cool pet lovers love Drs. Foster & Smith Pet Supplies. Now each week on Animal Planet, you can see Veterinarians Dr. Race Foster and Dr. Marty Smith on their own program. With the help of additional veterinarians and animal expert guests, Faithful Friends will provide support to pet parents on subjects including health, nutrition, behavior, travel, new and aged pets, horses, fish & coral, birds, and more.
Tails wag, tongues drool for gourmet food at hotels -- With an increasing number of pet owners bringing their four-legged friends on the road, hotels throughout North America and Europe are responding with tail-wagging gourmet menus fit for a king (or a Cavalier King Charles spaniel).
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"The new DC 30 collar is designed to stand up to the torturous abuse of hunting dogs. Whether it's hounds crashing through thick and swampy woods, or bird dogs bounding through dense CRP fields, the DC 30 is made to take the beating that working dogs dish out daily," said Dan Bartel, Garmin's vice president of worldwide sales. "And the new configuration also makes mounting the collar a cinch -- while improving reception."
The system pinpoints exactly where your dog is and if he/she is running, pointing, or treeing -- even in dense cover, with a range of 7 miles, depending on terrain.
Tell Bell™ is a specialized dog training device that permits a dog to "tell" his owner when he needs to go outside to be a good doggy. When your dog presses down on the paw print of the Tell Bell, it rings, telling you that your dog needs to go outside.
How do you do it? In a each Tell Bell™ box, you receive:
* Two Tell Bells (in one of 4 colors)
* A Training DVD
* A Training Manual
Keep an extra Tell Bell™ in your vehicle to use as guests in hotels or in the homes of your friends and family.
Sega Dream Dog DX -- Nothing Says Cute Like a Golden Retriever
Hard to find anything as cute as a Golden even if it is a robot. Probably won't come trotting across the lawn to greet you when you come home. Or have quite the same look in those big brown eyes. Or carry the leash around in his/her mouth when it is time for walkies.
But no more slobber on the floor in the kitchen, or clean up in the yard. This Golden Retriever toy will respond to voice commands (that would be refreshing). The Sega Dream Dog DX will sit, roll over, bark and nip at your fingers when you play with its nose. Sega Dream Dog DX will be available this September for $276.
Find Your "Dream" Cat Furniture -- Use the CatsPlay.com Search Engine
Sometimes you know what you want in a product, but finding it online can be like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. CatsPlay.com Cat Furniture has one of the web's largest collection of cat furniture offering hundreds of models, styles and features.
Use the Cat Furniture Super Search to do a custom search for your 'dream' cat furniture. You just select your preferences in various categories: color, style, price, specialty options and then browse the cat furniture that match your criteria.
Dogs are classified as carnivores, but as a practical matter, they are omnivorous and can easily survive without meat, as long as they eat a balanced diet. Dog relatives like foxes and coyotes consume lots of fruit or other vegetation at certain times of the year. While not ideal for every dog, most dogs can be successfully converted to a vegetarian or even vegan diet, and there are several suitable commercial dog foods as well as homemade diets. If you are considering a vegetarian rather than vegan diet for your dog, a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet has more flexibility by allowing dairy products and eggs as protein sources.
Cats, however, are exclusively carnivorous by nature and by physiology. The cat's body has made many specific adaptations to its expected diet of prey, which consists mostly of protein, fat and moisture. While you may hear stories about successfully vegetarian cats (including one lion), as a veterinarian, I cannot recommend trying to make a cat exclusively vegetarian or vegan. I've just seen too many problems from it. However, one company makes a good canned food that can be helpful in reducing the amount of meat you need to feed your cat.
Sharp-looking Cat Cottage Triplex is a unique wooden cat house for an outdoor kitty hangout. You know your cat has a safe haven to curl up in inclement weather.
Three separate compartments
Can comfortably house three to six cats, depending upon size.
Each unit has a floor size of 20 x 19
The "upper suite" features a lounging ledge
Lounging ledge also serves as a weather shelter for the bottom two door entrances
Round doors come with vinyl flaps installed.
Optional insulation feature provides protection from both extreme cold and extreme heat. Blocks out as much as 93% of the summer heat gain.
Along with the Cat Cottage Triplex (shown above), there are 3 more styles available:
Let your pet heal in comfort with Comfy Cone. After surgery, so many vets send their patients home with the uncomfortable and unwieldy plastic white cone around their head, making the pet feel even more miserable and strange. The cone blocks out peripheral vision, so the pet bumps into walls and furniture, knocking things over.
Comfy Cone is made of nylon laminated onto ½ inch foam, so the Cone is soft and yielding while still being sturdy and protective. The many positive features include:
Has elastic loops to thread the pets own collar through to keep the Comfy Collar secure in place and keeping it from being pulled off or from falling off
Allows your pet to eat and drink in comfort
Collar can be folded back when eating and drinking or when checking wounds and irritations.
Velcro closures and tabs which adjust to many sizes and opens so you do not have to put pet's head thru Comfy Collar
Unique reflective binding to help protect you and your pet while going outside at night for walks and bathroom breaks
Up to 20 percent of dogs of all ages and breeds suffer from noise phobias so severe that their people seek professional help for them, writes veterinary behaviorist Bonnie Beaver in her book Canine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians. (Cats can also develop fears of certain noises, but they usually just run and hide rather than engaging in destructive behavior.) Thunder and fireworks are the most common causes of noise phobias, but dogs can develop a fear of any sound: the rustling of a garbage bag, the beep of a microwave oven or the whir of a ceiling fan.
The article recommends "Dog Appeasing Pheromone products, designed to emit comforting and familiar scents to canines, and the Storm Defender Cape, a close-fitting wrap with a metallic lining that reduces a dog's sensitivity to the static charge buildup that occurs before a thunderstorm."
Pamper Your Pet with a Cloudpuff Blanket -- Perfect for Use with the Sleepy Pod Mobile Pet Carrier
Pamper your kitty or smaller dog with this luxurious Cloudpuff blanket perfect for the inside of pet carriers, on cat furniture perches and ledges, and more.
The Cloudpuff blanket is made from the softest polyester plush available.
The suede-like backing and trim make the Cloudpuff a durable and comfy blanket that can be used as an extra layer of padding or rolled up and used as a pillow. Machine wash.
It is available in two sizes, Small and Medium--perfect for use with both the Sleepypod Mini and Regular Size. The Sleepypod can be ordered with a warmer too, and in Strawberry, Jet Black, Arctic White, Dark Chocolate and Sky Blue.
Is Your Cat Healthy? -- Find Out with Scientific Professional Brand Cat Litter
If your cat is behaving strangely, he or she may need medical care. One common disease in cats is Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (FLUTD), which you may be able to diagnose yourself.
Leaves blood or blood-tinged urine in the litter box.
Paces restlessly
Cries
Vomits
Cleans his/her genitals frequently
Rests on cool surfaces such as bathtubs or tile floors
They go on to say that cats previously treated for FLUTD are very susceptible to and are at the highest risk for recurrence. Neutered males are also at very high risk due to the physiology of the male cat's narrower urethra.
Scientific Professional Cat Litter is a lightweight cat litter formulated to indicate high urine pH by changing color. High urine pH can be one cause of urinary problems in cats.
Ultra lightweight - 70% lighter than clay
Virtually dust- and tracking-free
3 lbs of this litter works like 21 lbs of clay litter
Clumping, flushable
Unscented
Ecologically friendly
Note: This litter should be used under the supervision of your veterinarian.
Herbal Medicine for Pets -- Natural Pet Care for Cats and Dogs
Wild animals are thought to heal themselves by eating plants that they are drawn to intuitively in their surrounding environment. Herbs and plants have healing powers, and many modern medicines are plant derivatives. This science has been around for eons. Here are two books on the subject.
Veterinary Herbal Medicine
By Dr. Susan Wynn and Dr. Barbara Fougere
Written by two prominent veterinarians, this full-color reference offers practical, evidence-based guidance on using more than 120 medicinal plants, including how to formulate herbal remedies to treat common disease conditions. A body-systems based review explores herbal medicine in context, offering information on toxicology, drug interactions, quality control, and other key topics.
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Herbs for Pets
By Mary Wulff-Tilford and Gregory L. Tilford
This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to find, prepare, and use herbs to treat common pet ailments. The book covers North American herbs, including Western, Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs that grow in North America. It also provides detailed information on each herb.
One thing about pets is they usually don't exactly savor their food. If you have a pet that eats too fast, this Brake-Fast Bowlshould improve their table manners. They have to work around the prongs and can't engulf the food quite so fast. Hopefully they will feel fuller and not want to eat so much.
Helps reduce the risk of Gastric Dilatation-Volvulus, aka Gastric Torsian or 'Bloat')
Slower eating makes an animal feel more full and reduces instances of 're-eating'
Veterinarian tested and recommended
Works with kibble or canned food
Elegant, no-tip shape
Durable, dishwasher safe plastic
Small: 1-1/2 cups for small breeds, flat face breeds & cats.
Medium: 5 cups (for Beagle to Bernese Mt. Dog).
Large: 8 cups (for giant breeds).
What Took So Long -- Oral Contraceptives for Animals on the Horizon
Good news: a birth control pill for animals is finally on the horizon. Surgery always has its risks and recently some concerns about the future health ramifications of spaying/neutering have cropped up.
The pill works by inhibiting the maturation of the egg, not the entire cycle, Kraemer says.
"We are confident we can develop this pill in the not too distant future, but we still have plenty of tests to complete," he says. "It's an exciting and much-needed project, but more funds will be needed, especially since deer and wild pigs are consumed by humans. One of the more interesting challenges will be to develop methods for feeding it to the target animals without affecting other species."
The compound can be mixed with animal feed and must be eaten daily during the critical time. It may also be encapsulated to decrease the frequency it has to be consumed.
"We believe we are the first to test this compound for this specific purpose," Kraemer says. "We're trying new uses for this previously approved compound."
When perfected, the pill could eventually be used as an oral contraceptive for pets, but that application will take some time to develop, Kraemer says. In dogs, for example, the ovulation process is especially complex, but researchers are confident such a birth control pill can one day be successful.
According to the American Humane Society, about seven million dogs and cats are euthanized each year at animal shelters. One female cat can lead to the production of 420,000 offspring in her lifetime.
Indoor/Outdoor Feline Funhouse -- Convenient and Versatile Cat Enclosure
