Pet Sitting

With summer on the horizon, many friends and neighbors may be planning getaways to enjoy the good weather. Since not all accommodations are pet-friendly, this means Fido, Fifi and Nemo may be staying home alone and will be in need of supervision. I have always been a pet lover ready to assist friends and family [...]

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Working Dogs

Most people know that a dog’s sense of smell is much more powerful than that of a human…but did you know that a dog’s nose has as many as 300 million smell receptors compared to humans who have only around 5 million? This keen ability enables dogs to detect another dog’s sex, diet, reproductive status [...]

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Pets and Personality

The other night my husband was sharing a story about a co-worker of who recently adopted a dog. I asked what made her get a dog and he chuckled. Apparently my husband asked her the same question and her reply was, “I am a single woman with three cats. I don’t want to be “that” [...]

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The Benefits of Adopting a ‘Mutt’

Finding the right pet to fit your personality and lifestyle is not always easy. Today, images of celebrities carrying little pure-bread puppies around like an accessory do not always paint the most responsible and realistic portrait of pet ownership. These photos seem to promote ownership of a toy, pure-bread dog as being more like a [...]

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Cat People CAN Like Dogs

  When my husband and I first met, he was a cat-person. In fact, he came from a family of cat-people. Apparently, when my husband was growing up, he and his family had an amazing cat named, Morris who could do tricks and came when you called…basically, a cat who acted like a dog. When we [...]

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