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...
Rescue Dog “Scooby” Has Finally Found His Voice After Being Saved From a Life of Fighting
While most of us will never be able to wrap our minds around it, dogs are sadly and regularly forced into fighting rings. Such was the case for a sweet pit bull mix named Scooby who, after being saved from that same fate, finally gained enough confidence to bark again six years after he was rescued. Before that, the best Scooby could muster was what amounted to pitiful puppy yips. In the meantime, he was a quivering mess that needed all the help he could get just to make it through each day of freedom. End Dogfighting Rings A man by the name...
11-Year-Old Cat Who Spent Years in Shelters Finally Finds Forever Home
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! We already had three cats and four dogs. The last thing we needed was another cat, but my son saw Banner at an adoption event at the pet store and instantly fell in love. CAT. PHOTO: PIXABAY / KARI SHEA All they knew about Banner was that he had been in shelters for at least a couple of years, and he was probably about 11-years-old. We kept checking daily for a week, and I kept praying...
