Posts for 'Cats Care' Category

Cat care can make a big difference on the look and atmosphere of your home. When you provide great cat care, you are ensuring that your home will look and smell clean and welcoming to visitors, and will be a place that you enjoy relaxing in. If you neglect cat care, your home can start to feel more like a prison than like an oasis. A cat is meant to make your household a more pleasant place to be, because the love and affection that a cat provides, not to mention the entertainment and refreshing energy, sweeten any environment. However, if you aren't providing adequate cat care, the joys of cat ownership can become buried underneath layers of odor and grime. Luckily, in just a few minutes every day, you can offer your pet the best possible cat care. Great cat care doesn't require expense or a lot of time or effort, and it can have tangibly positive results when it comes to your home's environment.

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Q: My cat Flicker has always been great at using the litter box, but lately she has started peeing in the basement and in one corner of the living room. How can I get her back to using the box again?

A: Cats: the fractious feline friends to humans, known for embodying qualities of beauty, grace and intelligence, while coupled undeniably with an unabashed side of independent pride. These qualities make them both irresistible, yet at times baffling, companions for people.

On the one hand, cats come with so many wonderful qualities already predisposed within their very feline nature. You do not need to usually “house train” a cat, rather, if you simply provide your cat with a litter box or two, they should choose to go there of their own accord. Pet parents with young puppies only wish it were so easy!

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Calling all cat lovers! Please pick up a few extra cans of cat food or a bag of dry cat food to help fill the shelves of the Seattle Humane Society Pet Food Bank.

The Seattle Humane Society's Pet Food Bank provides dry and canned food every month to more than 1,200 pets belonging to low-income seniors and people disabled by AIDS, combined.

Thanks to the Pet Food Bank, more than 750 pet owners each month don't have to choose between self care and pet care.WAYS YOU CAN HELP.

1. Donate canned or dry cat and dog food. Dry cat food is our greatest need. You can leave a donation for the Pet Food Bank at the shelter.

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To the baggage handlers loading Buddy's kennel onto American Airlines Flight 1526 from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago's O’Hare Airport last November, the four-year-old pit bull seemed sedate, but otherwise in good health.

But when baggage handlers in Chicago pulled him off the plane, they made the heartbreaking discovery that Buddy had passed away. A veterinarian examining Buddy found no cause of death, and the case was closed, according to a Department of Transportation Pet Incident Report.

Unfortunately, Buddy's tragic story is not an isolated incident for pets traveling in the baggage hold of an airplane. From November 2008 to December 2009, a tally of DOT reports revealed 27 deaths and seven injuries of pets on domestic airlines.

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? As Valentine’s Day  nears, do tender thoughts swing first to your beloved pet If so, don’t feel guilty because some readers confess their hearts belong to their pets rather than Daddy. Why? Because, unlike fallible humans, our pets lavish us with that infamous "unconditional love" — assuming that we shower them with our love on a regular basis.

Some pet businesses are showing they too have big hearts by actively advocating pet adoptions and providing fun ways to show the love on Valentine’s Day and beyond. VIDEO CONTEST It’s not too late to submit a one-minute video in the "Share your Pet Love" contest by Good News for Pets.

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Fido pauses at the door, reluctant to go outside. Fluffy stares longingly at the window, or spends hours grooming, furiously biting at the fur on her belly.

Whether it's combating cabin fever or protecting pets against the elements, our four-legged friends require special care during winter.

While it's true dogs and cats descend from wild animals, domesticated pets exist in a very different environment.

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Even in the UK, which has what is seen by many non-Britons as a slightly repressed attitude towards death, prolonged mourning and visible grief is considered normal for the death of a family member or a close friend.

But in a nation of animal lovers there are many who feel almost the same way about the loss of a pet, but whose emotions occasionally provoke raised eyebrows.  The writer, broadcaster and former Labour deputy leader Lord Hattersley wrote this week in a newspaper about his grief for Buster his canine companion of 15 years, who died in October.

"I sat in the first floor room in which I work, watching my neighbours go about their lives, amazed and furious that they were behaving as if it was a normal day," wrote Hattersley. "Stop all the clocks. Buster was dead."

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Many people prefer to keep pets in their home. But most of them do not know how to keep them well. Moreover they do not know how to care their pets properly.

There are various kinds of pets such as dogs, cats, rats, birds etc. and all of pets are different categories. So these pets need different types of care individually.

But many pets’ lovers do not know which kind of care need for which pets. Additionally they do not know how to bath their pets properly.

Even they do not know which food is necessary for their pets and how many times they have to feed their pets. Moreover, they don’t know when their pets need vaccine. Though they do not have proper idea of pets care, they always face a lot of trouble with their pets.

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Recent media reports of the 2009 H1N1 influenza (swine flu) virus cases in companion animals have many people concerned for the health of their pets. Here's what The HSUS has confimed about such cases, and what you can do to protect your pets from getting sick.

Ferrets and cats affected At the end of October, a USDA laboratory confirmed a Nebraska ferret died of H1N1 infection. Around the same time, three ferrets living in one Oregon household were also diagnosed with H1N1 infections.

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Cat flu? Health officials in Iowa say a 13-year-old cat tested positive for swine flu - the first feline to come down with the virus.  Two of the three people who live with the cat had the flu before the cat got sick, officials say.  They cautioned Iowans to protect family pets as they would protect anyone else.

"Indoor pets that live in close proximity to someone who has been sick are at risk," said Iowa veterinarian David Schmitt.  "It is wise to monitor their health to ensure they aren't showing signs of illness." Vets say if your cat shows signs of flu-like illness - such as trouble breathing, runny nose or sluggishness - call their doctor.  Doctors say a cat coming down with swine flu is not unexpected, as other strains of the flu have been found in cats before.  The cat and its owners have recovered from the illness, officials say.