Summer officially starts this weekend! As the new season begins, it’s time for a project update. I’m excited to announce that my latest book, Dr. Pet Mom’s Pet Parenting Guide: How to Enjoy the Love and Friendship of Senior and Special Needs Pets, is well underway.
Continue reading “June Update: Dr. Pet Mom’s New Book! 📚”Category: Pet Animals
Pet Parent Warning: Pet Suffocation From Snack Bags ⚠️
Living indoors with our furry family members has its many rewards. Noggin pets, play time and naps can happen any time. But pet parents need a warning about a hidden danger in our homes: Pets can suffocate from snack bags, pet food bags, cereal bags, garbage bags, and resealable bags.
Continue reading “Pet Parent Warning: Pet Suffocation From Snack Bags ⚠️”June Pet Awareness Days 🗓️
June is here and summer is in the air! 2020 remains a troubling year for the entire planet – even more reason to celebrate the gift of love from our pets! Embrace their unbridled love to warm your heart!
Continue reading “June Pet Awareness Days 🗓️”Silly, Catnaps and Wonder: What We Learn From Our Pets 🃏
Pet parents and animal lovers already know how much pets help our well being. As we continue to spend time indoors with our furry friends, we are reminded of other ways that our pets make us better people.
We could all use more help from our furry friends!
Continue reading “Silly, Catnaps and Wonder: What We Learn From Our Pets 🃏”Good News: Dog Sitting is an Essential Service! 🥳
As we slowly emerge from shut down mode, people continue to help heroes everywhere. Early on, dog sitting and doggy daycare services were considered nonessential.
But the shut down ignored one very critical pet parent community: Healthcare workers. Hospital support staff, nurses and doctors can’t work from home. And their pets still need care, feeding, exercise and TLC.
Continue reading “Good News: Dog Sitting is an Essential Service! 🥳”Interview: Project K-9 Hero Founder, Jason Johnson 🎖️
Sending our thoughts and prayers to end the spread of the coronavirus...
I’m happy to share my interview with Jason Johnson, Founder and CEO of the nonprofit, Project K-9 Hero Foundation. This wonderful organization helps retired military working dogs.
Johnson explained that Project K-9 Hero was formed in March of 2016, to assist retired Police K-9 and Military Working Dog Heroes with medical care, food, and death benefit assistance.
Continue reading “Interview: Project K-9 Hero Founder, Jason Johnson 🎖️”Successful Cat Adoption Tips 🐱
Cats make wonderful pets for any family of any size. Boomer families, Millennial families, retired couples, families with young children or teens and single adults are adopting cats.
If you’re thinking about adopting a pet, here are a few tips to guide you in the right direction.
Note: All photos (by @SocialClaude) are our feral rescue cat Oscar... 😎
Continue reading “Successful Cat Adoption Tips 🐱”April Pet Awareness Days 🗓️
Many things are on our minds these days including family, surviving and thriving. Pets are important family members. And this month, we celebrate pet first aid and therapy animals.
Continue reading “April Pet Awareness Days 🗓️”Pet Bird Adoption Tips 🦜
Nature is amazing and always in control. In the midst of today’s global life change around the Coronavirus outbreak, I remember that there is truly much beauty in the world.
Some of nature’s most beautiful animals are birds. It may not feel like spring time right now. But birds can bring beauty, color and song into your life.
Continue reading “Pet Bird Adoption Tips 🦜”Pets and Companion Animals: Safety and COVID-19 ⚠️
Spring is here and all around the planet, we are living through troubling times. Each day, we learn more and more about COVID-19. This virus has turned the world upside down.
Sadly, the impact on pets is very distressing: People are abandoning their pets. People are fearful and confused by stories that claim COVID-19 is transmitted from our pets.
PLEASE DON’T BELIEVE THE MYTH THAT PETS ARE CONTAGIONS OF THIS VIRUS! Pets are not the problem. COVID-19 is spread only through human-to-human contact.
Continue reading “Pets and Companion Animals: Safety and COVID-19 ⚠️”