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The fight over a dog bite: What you need to know about dog biting
March 15, 2011 • Health & Wellness •
If your dog has never been bitten by another dog, consider yourselves lucky. Dog bites happen every day–at the vet ’s office, on walks around the neighborhood, and at dog parks .
On the flip side, if your dog bites another dog, you need to know what to do to protect yourself and your dog.
The nation’s leading dog bite expert, attorney Kenneth Phillips , author of Dog Bite Law and What to do if Your... -
Disposable dogs: Special needs dogs and revealing results
March 13, 2011 • Health & Wellness •
By: Arden Townsend
March 26 is canine seizure awareness day and we ask all dog lovers (and your dogs) to wear purple to help increase awareness of this dreadful special need.
Many people have expressed surprise that we kept Precious, who is our seizure dog, and did not return her to the shelter when she started having seizures. My response is simple- she had become a member of our family. I do not... -
Dog Park Safety Guidelines for Owners and their Dogs
March 11, 2011 • Health & Wellness •
Guest author from All Things Dog Blog
First in a series on dog parks from Carrie Boyko
Thinking about taking your pup to an off-leash dog park? Great! I’m here to help prepare you so that this experience will be a positive one for both you and Fido.
Entering a dog park is much like walking into a playground of beings from another planet. Dogs have their own set of rules. Well-socialized dogs know... -
How to make your dog “shush” when barking is excessive
March 09, 2011 • Health & Wellness
Our last how to get your dog to stop barking blog post was so popular, FIDO Friendly is revisiting the topic to help those readers out who had more questions in getting Fido to “shush” when requested.
No one would think of putting a shock collar on a canary, squirting lemon juice into a baby’s mouth or beating a husband with a rolled-up newspaper and having his vocal cords cut for ’singing’ in the... -
Resource for pets battling cancer: Up-to-date and current
March 08, 2011 • Health & Wellness
By: Kelly Farnan, Fetching Communications
Pet owners seeking complete online information and veterinarians needing an up-to-date resource for the treatment of a patient with cancer are now able to turn to The Cancer Center at CARES at www.vetCARES.com. The Cancer Center at CARES, which is made up of a select group of trained veterinary specialists, has its home base at The Center for Animal... -
Hot Topic Can dogs really smell fear?
March 07, 2011 • Health & Wellness
Our pets have a remarkably keen sense of smell. A dog’s “smelling” ability is said to be a thousand times greater than that of humans. And a cat’s sense of smell, while not as intense as a dog’s, is 14 times stronger than a human’s. But can they actually smell fear?
As experts have pointed out, for pets to be able to smell our fear we would have to emit some kind of fear scent or odor. In reality,...
