Category: Pets

PET HEALTH ALERT

Bad Pet Breath Can Mean Health Issues by Dr. Jay King, DVM  (NAPSI)—By the age of three, 80% of dogs and 70% of cats show signs of dental disease. If your pet has smelly breath, it could be a warning sign. Pet parents might not know that bad breath is caused by harmful bacteria and Read More …

PETS AND PEOPLE

The Taste Of Fall—You Can Share With Your Dog (NAPSI)—Now is the time for all things pumpkin: From pumpkin spice lattes and candles to pumpkin patches and carving, there’s something pumpkin for everyone—including your four-legged friends. Now you can share your love of pumpkin with your pooch. Just like us, dogs go crazy over the Read More …

PET CARE

Managing Pet Anxiety Amid Transitioning Routines by Darris Cooper, CPDT-KA (NAPSI)—As students return to in-person learning and pet parents gradually begin to spend more time outside the house, pets around the country are having to adapt to new daily routines, adjust to more time alone and navigate more frequent social interactions. Pets thrive on predictability, Read More …

PET HEALTH

Five Ways To Treat Your Pet To A Spooky, Safe Halloween by Darris Cooper, CPDT-KA (NAPSI)—It’s no secret that pets are like family—holiday traditions included.This Halloween bring your pups in on the spooky fun by decking them out in a scary cute costume and training them to be the most polite trick-or-treater on the block. Read More …

SCIENCE IN OUR LIVES

Controlling Seasonal Diseases In Cattle (NAPSI)—Here’s something cattle ranchers know: Each season brings with it different health challenges for their livestock, from respiratory diseases to eye and foot infections, to enteric and other systemic infections. But there are solutions. What The Vet Says Explains Eric Moore, DVM, “To successfully keep cattle healthy and productive includes Read More …

MAXIMIZING CATTLE PERFORMANCE

Pointers On Parasite Control (NAPSI)—Often, little things can have a big effect on livestock production. Even unseen things such as internal and external parasites can take a heavy toll on beef and dairy cattle, robbing them of vital nutrients, constantly irritating them and making them more susceptible to health problems. The Problem Internal parasites such Read More …

TIPS ON TRIPS

Ten Reasons An RV Will Level-up A Camping Trip (NAPSI)—You can get away from it all—without having to leave it all behind. Here’s how: Better than camping, even better than glamping, is traveling via recreational vehicle (RV). Don’t worry if you don’t have one. RVs are easier than ever to rent. There’s a network of Read More …

PET PEEVES

Be Aware: Any Dog Can Bite (NAPSI)—Most people would probably agree that having a dog charge at them and bite is a frightening experience. The Postal Service reports that that is exactly what happened to over 5,800 letter carriers in 2020. That represented an increase over the previous year. Several things added to the mix; Read More …

TEXAS TOPICS

Apartment Living Fosters Much Needed Sense Of Community (NAPSI)—Communities are more than groups of people who live together in the same geographical area. In their truest sense, communities transcend the physical spaces they occupy to become places that harbor a feeling of fellowship cultivated by shared common interests, values, attitudes and goals.  Atlanta-based multifamily real Read More …

ANIMAL NEWS AND NOTES

Keeping Livestock Healthy Made Easier (NAPSI)—For livestock producers, even the best-laid healthcare plans can be waylaid by unexpected disease outbreak, illness or other conditions that impact their animals.   Fortunately, effective, economical, generic antibiotics can treat a wide range of livestock illnesses, says Megan Schnur, DVM.  “Generic products are widely prescribed and used today by Read More …