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Falling Leaves & Temperatures - Yard Maintenance Key For FIDO This Fall
November 15, 2016 • At Home
Fall is a great time to assess your yard, put away summer outdoor power equipment and prep and service winter outdoor power equipment. Doing maintenance and assessments in the fall means that your equipment and green spaces will be in good shape when spring arrives, and you will be ready to tackle landscaping projects again.
The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) offers these tips to...
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Keep Your Furry Family Members Happy on Halloween
October 21, 2016 • At Home • Rescue
Our friends at LA Animal Services shared these important pet safety tips.
While many people of all ages look forward to Halloween each year, the holiday's festivities can be stressful and even dangerous for your pets. Even normally mellow pets can be confused and spooked by strange sounds and sights and unfamiliar people in costumes. Here are some tips to help keep your four-legged loved ones...
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Feeding Pets of the Homeless Leads Seventh National Give a Dog a Bone Pet Food Drive
July 14, 2016 • At Home • Health & Wellness • Rescue
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The week of August 7-14 is the seventh National Feeding Pets of the Homeless Give a Dog a Bone week. The national organization, Pets of the Homeless asks the public to locate a donation site in their community by visiting petsofthehomeless.org. Donations of pet food should be taken to one of the identified, local sites.
Homelessness is still an issue in many cities even as the economy...
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We are loopy for Loopies!
May 25, 2016 • At Home • Product Reviews •
What goes best with a water-loving Lab you ask? It’s the Water Loopie from loopiestoys.com.
After you soak the toy, toss it in the water to be retrieved. The pretzel shape lifts the dogs face high on the water decreasing ear infection and water intake.
With six ends to grab and made of neoprene, they float no matter how soaked they get providing hours of beach, pool or lake fun. Nylon bite...
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TopVet Splash Pet Shampoo
May 25, 2016 • At Home • Health & Wellness • Product Reviews •
I was sent a bottle of Splash Plus Clear Skin Shampoo to try out on my black Lab, Junior. Junior and his rescue brother Jake travel all over the country with us each year for our annual pet adoption tour: Get Your Licks on Route 66®. So many different climates to be exposed to and Junior seems to be bothered the most with itching.
Recently he had be scratching, we call it the ‘spring scratch' so...
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More time spent with Fido thanks to cleaning robot bObsweep
April 17, 2016 • Trends • At Home • Product Reviews •
I am sitting outdoors with my two rescue hounds Junior and Jake soaking up the morning spring sunshine in Idaho. It’s very quite, very peaceful, but what is that low ‘whirring’ sound in the background? I can barely hear it. Oh right, I forgot to say, I am also vacuuming.
Well, I am not vacuuming actually, my new best robot friend Bob from bObsweep is working away.
bObsweep is the intelligent...
