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We had some wonderful news this week: DOG TALK® has joined the programming on Saturday mornings at 10 AM on a lovely new public radio station in upstate New York: WCSQ-LP 105.9 FM, known on air as “Radio Cobleskill.” They are a licensed, non-commercial LPFM station and have just had their one year anniversary
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Hang on! Wait! Just because your dog tests positive for Lyme disease in the vet’s office does NOT mean you need to treat with antibiotics! My sister and two friends of mine recently took their dogs to their vets for an annual exam. All the dogs seemed totally healthy and had no complaints at all.
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I want to ask you to do one small thing to make the world a better place for dogs forced to fight each other in California. I’m going to guess that – like me – you thought dog fighting had been outlawed in the United States and nobody was doing it anymore – or if
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I am really a dog and cat person, right? I wrote “The Dog Bible: Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know,” and “The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know.” And while I had two pet sheep as a child (Eloise and Baa-Baa, who had a black face), I never had any plans
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Just when I thought we dog owners had heard every safety warning imaginable, up popped a new one that had never even occurred to me: that you have to make sure your little dog doesn’t slip down your bathtub drain! Common sense would tell me that puppies and small dogs be washed in a plastic
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Recently I received one of those totally feel-good-never-give-up-hope-on-humanity stories (you can read more HERE) that starts off horribly- but winds up with a very happy ending for one roughly treated pit bull. This is the tale of a woefully unfortunate brown pit bull in Arizona, who was found wandering the side of the road –
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Last week I wrote about putting to sleep my very lame old girl, Jazzy, and I was deeply touched by how many people expressed their condolences. I was moved by the many people who shared their own stories of heartache in making that loving decision to help over the Rainbow Bridge an old dog compromised
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The post TRACIE HOTCHNER: OPENING YOUR HEART TO A NEW DOG AFTER LOSING ONE appeared first on Halo Pets Blog.
It never hurts to repeat a safety message, especially when it pertains to dangers to our pets. You don’t necessarily think about carbon monoxide, the deadly odorless gas that can come from a malfunctioning space heater, but it can kill everyone in your house. A year ago I wrote about the serious need for a
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The post TRACIE HOTCHNER: GET A CO MONITOR FOR YOUR PET’S SAKE – IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE IT FOR YOURSELF! appeared first on Halo Pets Blog.
I had to say goodbye to my old Collie-mix dog Jazzy this weekend. People were feeling sorry for me when I told them my vet had come to put her to sleep – but I wasn’t sad. It was such a relief for me and for Jazzy – to be able to let go and
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We’ve been having some bitter cold days recently in parts of the country and there are a number of things you can do to keep your dog comfortable – and safe – outdoors. Do not assume they have the “common sense” to come indoors when they begin to get hypothermia or frostbite on their ears
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