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Cats Fears & Anxieties Life at Home

Ears To You: Listen To What Your Cat’s Ears Say

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s face it, cat ears are cute. The fashion industry, clearly smitten, offers a wide array of cat ear headbands for our personal adornment. Cuteness aside, though, cat ears are fascinating for their form and function. Beyond providing cats with superior hearing and helping them maintain their storied balance, the ears are also part of […]

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Activities & Enrichment Cats Life at Home

Turning Cat Wheels: Could Your Cat Benefit From This Feline Exercise Trend?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Is your cat fat? Inactive? Bored? That’s not normal or healthy, and here’s why. Cats instinctively nap 16 or more hours daily. Back when they lived outdoor lives, napping was a mechanism to reserve energy to keep their hunting skills sharp. But in a time when most cats live indoors, with no need to hunt […]

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Cats Dogs Fears & Anxieties Life at Home Other Veterinary Care

Pre-Op Planning Reduces Your Pet’s Stress And Yours

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Why all the lab work before your pet’s spay/neuter surgery or other procedure? He looks healthy, and as far as you know, there’s nothing wrong with him. The key words are “as far as you know.” Pre-operative testing is an important part of pre-surgical prep that can alert your veterinarian to underlying problems that could […]

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Dogs Fears & Anxieties Life at Home Training & Grooming

Stranger Danger: Help Your Dog Feel Relaxed When Visitors Arrive

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When I ring my friend’s doorbell, her two 50-pound-plus dogs, Nike and Susie, go berserk and bark uncontrollably. Like firefighters racing to a five-alarm fire, they rush the front door, jump, and growl.  If I were an intruder, I’d surely think twice before robbing this house, but I only want to hang out with my […]

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Activities & Enrichment Cats Fears & Anxieties Life at Home Training & Grooming

5 Simple Ways To Keep Cats (And Yourself) Calm While You’re Gone

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes travel is a passion and a hobby; sometimes travel is a necessity. When we have to travel and leave our cats, it can be difficult for them and for us. If you are like me, you’ve spent years observing and getting to know your cats. Put this knowledge to use to make sure your […]

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Cats Life at Home Senior Pets Training & Grooming

Can Fear Free Strategies Help When Your Cat Is Dying?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes We dread the deaths of our beloved cats, and every death is different. We may or may not get notice; we may or may not have time to say goodbye. Assuming there is time to say goodbye, what can we do to make an already stressful and possibly dreaded process as calm and meaningful as […]

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Cats Fears & Anxieties Life at Home

Telling Tails About Cat Emotions

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Reading Time: 3 minutes From bobtail to slender “whippy” to magnificent plume, cats carry their tails proudly. Like a semaphore flag, the feline tail is a visual signal that communicates emotions up close and at a distance. Flexible, the tail moves up, down, high and low, back and forth. It may be straight, curved entirely, or curved only at […]

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Make Getting Pee And Poop Samples Stress-Free For Your Pet—And You

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Elated and relieved people all over proclaim “Good potty!” and “Good pee!” when their dogs perform these necessities during leashed walks. But when is the last time you really looked at your dog’s poop? And how much attention do you really pay to the clumps you scoop each day from your cat’s litter box? One […]

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How Pets Read And Respond To Our Emotions

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Legendary Lassie did more than “save” little Timmy from being stuck at the bottom of the well. The beloved television Collie seemed to accurately read when Timmy was happy or scared and knew when to spring into action to save him from danger in each episode. It turns out our dogs–and cats–may be better mind […]

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My Pets Survived Our Home Renovations and Yours Can, Too

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Raise your hand if you just finished or are in the midst of a major house renovation. Nod your head if your frustration and uncertainty during this ordeal sparked a spat or two with your spouse or made you want to scream out loud. As stressful as these construction projects can be to us, imagine […]