Category: Pet Care

March 3, 2008

Mystified by the mentality that causes people to abandon pets

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 03 Mar 2008

I’ve always been a very understanding person, and a very gullible person, I suppose. That combination generally causes me to try very hard to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their bad behavior. Case in …

March 2, 2008

Age-old question: Do we really ever train our pets or do they actually train us?

Filed under: Pet Care - 02 Mar 2008

One of the fascinating and amazing things about having pets is the extent to which we humans adapt to the needs of non-human species: We do indeed train our pets; they indeed do train us. So the question in this …

March 1, 2008

Nominate your choice: What’s the best pet for small children?

Filed under: Pet Care - 01 Mar 2008

Think carefully about this question: What do you think is the best pet for small children, say children 10 years old and under? The age is arbitrary, but I want to emphasize SMALL children, i.e., physically small, mentally, emotionally, and …

Estate planning for our pets? What happens to them if we die?

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 01 Mar 2008

If you’re like me, you’ve read stories from time to time of eccentric millionaires leaving the bulk of their money to care for little FooFoo and Fido when they died. I’m not asking the question in the title of this …

February 29, 2008

Have you tried one of the ‘invisible’ dog fences and does it work for your dog?

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet Products - 29 Feb 2008

Being very curious by nature, I’ve been look at information about the various invisible dog fences/pet fences on the market. I don’t presently have a dog, only a cat, and we have no issues with the cat harassing neighbors or …

How do you feel about required pet sterilizations? Good laws or bad?

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 29 Feb 2008

I’m all in favor of the idea that most cats and dogs we have as pets ought to be spayed or neutered. I am very uncomfortable with buying pets from pet stores for a world of reasons, and prefer to …

February 26, 2008

Homelessness afflicts pets as well as people

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 26 Feb 2008

I’ve never been homeless. I’ve never gone through foreclosure. For the most part, I’ve always had a home or apartment to live in, though some family dysfunction when I was a kid did impact me and a special pet.

I can …

February 25, 2008

Anti-depressants for pets? No, that’s not a joke — pets behaving suicidal

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 25 Feb 2008

When we took Merlin the wonderful black cat into our home some years ago, he came with a covered litter box, a bag of dry food his previous owner had no use for — and a bottle of …

February 21, 2008

Have you ever had health insurance for your pets?

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 21 Feb 2008

We had a veterinary crisis of sorts about two years ago. Our cat, Tigra, developed a bump on her spine just up from her tail. The vet said it was possibly cancerous, but likely benign. Either way, he said she …

Pet issues: Where is the line between pet welfare and ‘pets as property’?

Filed under: Pet Care, Pet News - 21 Feb 2008

Where do we draw the line between pets and property, and what ought we to do about pets deserving of protection as living creatures when they are being abused?

I don’t know for certain, but I believe every state in America, …

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