Boom! Another air-bomb explodes outside and it's still almost a week until fireworks night. For pet owners with fearful animals, this is a difficult time of year. The nightly barrage of whizzes, screams and bangs turns these pets into anxious wrecks. Fireworks can cause several problems in our pets. These range from mild stress, unintentional accidents through to the results of malicious abuse. The most common problems reported are: Stress and Anxiety Some pets will seem only

A trend in pet ownership is that people entering retirement are less than half as likely to own pets as they were earlier in their lives. There are many contributing reasons for this. Perhaps the original pet-ownership decision was driven by demands from the kids? For some the appeal of freedom and the ability, finally, to take that ‘holiday of a lifetime’ means there is no place for a pet. And for others, no doubt, it’s the fear that their pet may outlive themselves that swa

By Mrs. A. Doglover. It was our regular and predictable routine. I picked up his lead and called his name. Dexter did his usual ‘I’m a crazy lunatic’ run down the hall, skidding to a halt at my feet, manically dancing the rumba as I clipped on his lead. Out the front door, up the path and through the gate we charged. Heading down the street for our daily dose of exercise. And just as we were really finding our stride, it happened. Dexter came to an abrupt halt and donned the

Recently, video taken in South America in 2014 resurfaced and made the rounds on social media. The video shows a bedraggled, but determined, dog chasing a moving ambulance down the street in Goiana, Brazil, at top speed. According to media reports and commentary accompanying the video, paramedics had just loaded a homeless man suffering from epileptic seizures and were departing for the hospital at speed. In the video, the ambulance crew speak Portuguese, speculating about th