Health and Social Benefits of Pet Ownership Whether you have dogs, cats, birds, or reptiles, I think you can all agree that having a pet in your home has its perks. There’s just something about coming home to a wagging tail, or a content (or hungry) meow, that causes warm, fuzzy feelings to rise up … Read more
How to Recognize Stress and Anxiety in Cats Guest Writer: Craig Davis The behavior of your cat can suddenly change due to stress or anxiety, which can be easily identified by its reaction to other pets or people. It may even start scratching, biting, or showing other similar symptoms of hostile or aggravated behavior. While … Read more
How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Guest Writer: Dave Green Introduction I’ve always been fascinated by wild birds, and I’ve spent many a pleasurable hour sitting and watching them feeding, bathing and preening in my backyard. It’s wonderful to observe them playing and flitting around. If you want to attract birds to your yard, … Read more
How to Train Your Cat to Use the Litter Box It might seem very difficult to try to teach a pet without even knowing how to speak its language, but more often, body language and gestures tell a lot more than words. Teaching your kitten to use the litter box will take time, just like … Read more
Unlikely Animal Friendships Yes, I know, you’ve already seen lots of pictures of unlikely animal friendships on Facebook and Twitter. But have you seen this video? It’s really short, only a little over a minute long. You can spare that, can’t you? Take a look. Unlikely Animal Friendships Having had a lot of experience with … Read more
Should You Feed Your Dogs Bananas? My dogs have always hated bananas. They don’t even like the smell of them, and will barely give them a glance. I always assumed this was the case with all dogs. You know, some ingrained thing that tells dogs that something isn’t good for them? Recently, though, a friend … Read more
Animal Portrait Artist: Sheri Hoeger California, USA Sheri Hoeger has been a professional artist for many years and does a lot of commission work. She especially loves to paint pets. Sheri says: As a fine artist, I have the opportunity to share my own personal take on the world, where splendor abounds in the simplest … Read more
The Truth About Dachshunds Recently, I had occasion to chat with Jessica Rhae Williams, owner of two beautiful miniature Dachshunds, Chester and Gretel. Jessica writes a very fun blog called, “You Did What With Your Wiener?” You should go check it out. Jessica informed me that a lot of people have misconceptions about the Dachshund … Read more
Animal Portrait Artist – Jenna Whittaker Lucedale, Mississippi, USA Jenna Whittaker has been doing artwork since she was 5 years old. She took Fine Arts lessons from ages 5-11, where she learned the art of painting in acrylics, pastels, and pencil, as well as wood burning, glass etching, and more. She has entered many … Read more
We Found a Drowning Chipmunk in Our Pond Have you ever had one of those days where you know you just did a good thing? A couple of weeks ago, we found a drowning chipmunk in our pond in the front yard. Actually, Jon found it, and he immediately brought it into the house to … Read more