Healthy pets

Best Pet Insurance Companies of April 2021 BY NOEL DÁVILA AND PAUL REYNOLDS Pet insurance helps pay for your pet’s medical care, with many policies covering up to 90 percent of your vet bill — assuming your pet’s procedure wasn’t excluded from coverage or didn’t surpass your annual expense cap.  Most leading pet insurance companies give pet owners comprehensive coverage at an affordable monthly premium. Yet a study we conducted in March 2021 found that only 25% of pet owners have pet insurance. Shop around, do the research, and then make a well-informed decision about the insurance that is best suited to care for...

Lets Face it...  Let’s face it … the statistics aren’t encouraging.  There are 65 million dogs in the US. Each year there are about 6 million new dog cancer cases. And half of dogs over 10 die from cancer. So, if you’re afraid this could happen to your dog … you’re one of millions of dog owners with the same fear.  It’s easy to be too vigilant. And then you worry that any little lump, bump or minor ailment means your dog has cancer. (See what Dr Marty Goldstein says about this below).  But you do need to know what to...

Is it okay to give your dog banana as a snack? Author: Julia Henriquez   As a dog owner, you’ve likely asked the question, “Can dogs eat bananas?”. Well, the short and simple answer to that question is an unequivocal yes. But before you start feeding bananas to your dog, there are some important facts to discover. In this article, I’ll share the pros and cons of incorporating bananas into your dog’s diet. You’ll also learn some useful insights on how to serve this tasty fruit to your happy canine. If you’re ready to begin, then let’s dive in and...

Article By: Gabrielle Feldman  Do you think you know everything there is to know about canines? Think again! Check out these 23 interesting facts you may have never heard:   Dogs have a sense of time. It's been proven that they know the difference between a hour and five. If conditioned to, they can predict future events, such as regular walk times. Your dog is as smart as a two year old! Ever wonder why children around this age seem to have a special bond with the family dog? It could be because they speak the same language, roughly 250...

By Jeffrey Kluger What began a millennia ago as a personal-services contract between two dissimilar species turned into something much richer. You speak dog better than you think you do. You may not be fluent; that would require actually being a dog. But if you went to live in a dogs-only world, you'd be pretty good at understanding what they're saying. You can tell a nervous yip from a menacing growl, a bark that says hello from a bark that says get lost. You can read the body language that says happy, that says sad, that says tired, that says...

  Photo By Abracadabra Grooming & Training By Kimberly Jones There have been varying opinions about whether or not a raw food diet is best for your pet. However, many pet owners are beginning to adopt the idea that it's better to feed pets a diet that evolves from what their ancestors ate in the wild before domestication. After all, meat is what they thrived on throughout their lifetime. Today's raw food diet can consist of not only feeding your furry loved one meat, but you can also feed him or her fruits and vegetables. Including fruits and vegetables in...