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National Respect Your Cat Day March 28th

March 26, 2022 by Jennifer Houghton Leave a Comment

Do you think that your cat feels respected? Like, really valued and understood? If the answer is maybe not, take the opportunity to turn that around on March 28th.

The National Respect Your Cat holiday was designed to bring awareness to the proper care of cats. According to PetMD.com, it is also a day to draw attention to the importance of interpreting and appreciating all cat behaviors. 

Today we are going to take Dr. Sarah Wooten’s top three ways she recommends you can show care and respect for cats. Let’s see how many of these you already do.

Suggetions

  • Respect the Hunt. Since cats are carnivores and natural hunters, an indoor cat needs a way to work through those natural instincts. Providing your cat with an environment that allows them to climb and hunt is important to curb boredom. Whether you create some type of cat tree or design a puzzle game or just give them an old fashioned cardboard box, stimulation is important to keeping your cat mentally engaged.
  • Respect the Claws. Vets know that declawing a cat can lead to lifelong pain in their toes. The alternative is to provide your cat appropriate areas to engage their natural scratching behavior. Do you have a scratching post?
  • Respect the Space. Much like introverted humans, cats that are too crowded run the risk of being stressed out. And a stressed out cat can start doing things that their housemates may not like, such as urinating outside the litter box. Be sure to give your cat a safe place where they can escape when they don’t wish to be bothered.

How did you do? Are you a respecter of cats? Let us know if you have any other tips or tricks to respect your cat on March 28th or the rest of the year. 

Filed Under: Pet Care Tagged With: boredom, cardboard box, care, carnivore, cat, cat tree, claws, Dr. Sarah Wooten, housemates, hunt, instinct, Litter Box, National Respect Your Cat Day, PetMD.com, puzzle, scratching post, space, stressed, urinating

Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

August 22, 2021 by Jennifer Houghton Leave a Comment

According to PetMD, a recent study showed that more than half of the cats in the US had not been seen by a veterinarian in the past year for a wellness exam.

While I do not parent a cat, I know many people who do have cats. And they all indicate that getting their cat to the vet’s office is one of their biggest challenges. From the disappearing cat act when the carrier appears, to the fight to get them into the carrier and car, and the subsequent fight to get them out of the carrier at the vet’s office, it goes on and on. 

The woes of transport lead many cat parents to simply avoid the annual visit to the vet for a checkup. Many cite undo stress as the reason they opt to avoid the ordeal. According to PetMD, cats have a unique survival tactic that results in them attempting to hide symptoms of an illness until they simply can no longer do so. 

That means skipping those annual visits may result in a missed opportunity to address a treatable disease until it is too late to head off the worst. 

Symptoms and Signs

Since cats are creatures of habits, some signs that you should signal an immediate trip to the vet might be needed include:

  • Hiding
  • Change in eating or appetite
  • New litter box habits
  • Chang in sleeping location 

Strategies

There are some ways to minimize stress in those trips to the veterinarian with your cat. First, don’t get the carrier out until you are leaving for the vet’s office. Pulling it out too soon can result in a game of hide and seek you probably don’t want to play.

Second, you can build a positive association with the carrier in the months leading up to the visit. Or, consider a mild sedative prescribed by your vet to take the edge off your cat’s anxiety. If all of that fails, see if your vet would make a house call (there are still some that practice on site visits).

Let National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day be a motivator to get your feline seen for a wellness exam.

Filed Under: Pet Care Tagged With: carrier, cat, checkup, disease, eating, feline, hiding, illness, Litter Box, PetMD, sedatives, sleeping, stress, symptoms, transport, veterinarian, wellness exam

Consider Microchipping Your Pet

May 12, 2021 by Jennifer Houghton Leave a Comment

In the chaos of moving from a house in the suburbs to a condo in the city, I missed one very important step. In the hundreds of updates, decisions, and changes that relocating can involve, I had forgotten microchipping. I hadn’t updated the contact information registered to my dog’s microchip.

When adopting from a shelter, microchipping is a given in most instances.  However, if you haven’t microchipped your pet you might want to consider doing so. It is a great way to ensure identification of your pet in the event a collar breaks, your pet panics and runs away during fireworks, or if your pet is lost during a natural disaster. [Read more…] about Consider Microchipping Your Pet

Filed Under: Pet Safety Tagged With: address, adopting, Blum Animal Hospital, cat, chaos, Chicago, city, collar, condo, dog, fireworks, housee, identification, lost, microchip, microchipping, natural disastre, panic, phone numbers, shelter, suburbs, universal scanning tool, veterinarian

Pet Poison Prevention Week

March 18, 2020 by Jennifer Houghton Leave a Comment

The third week of March has been designated as Pet Poison Prevention Week for over 50 years.

How often do you think about what might be poisonous to your pet? Before you bring them into your home? After they’ve eaten something that has fallen on the floor? Immediately upon reentering the room after leaving a pan of brownies on the stove in what should have been a safe distance to find half the pan eaten and your dog’s guilty grin greeting you?

Let’s take a moment to consider what might cause dire harm or death to your pet upon ingestion and what actions you can or should take if that occurs.

There’s a very handy search engine on https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poisons/. Type in the item ingested and get information on what to do.

Further, Pet Poison Helpline is a 24-hour pet poison control center. There is a fee involved if you use their services. Or, they can help you locate an emergency vet near you.

Their website includes guides on pet safety and how to spot potential poisons in each room of your house and even by holidays.With Easter approaching, you can read about possible poisonings that can occur during that time frame at https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/pet-owners/seasons/easter/.

The top dog poison is chocolate and the top cat poison is lilies. See the complete list by clicking here.

Filed Under: Pet Safety Tagged With: brownies, cat, chocolate, dog, Easter, emergency, fee, holidays, home, ingestion, lilies, Pet Poison Helpline, pet poison prevention week, poisonous, search engine, stove, vet, website

Top Pet Names of 2019

January 8, 2020 by Jennifer Houghton Leave a Comment

Maybe you got a pet over the holiday. Maybe you are thinking about bringing one into your home this year. No matter when you bring a new pet home, one thing you always need is a name!

Rover.com compiled a list of the most popular pet names for 2019. If you need a little help naming your floofin or you are just curious, check out their data at https://www.rover.com/blog/dog-names/.

According to rover.com :

Top Male Dog Names:

  1. Max
  2. Charlie
  3. Cooper
  4. Buddy
  5. Rocky

Top Female Dog Names:

  1. Bella
  2. Luna
  3. Lucy
  4. Daisy
  5. Lily

Top Male Cat Names:

  1. Oliver
  2. Leo
  3. Milo
  4. Charlie
  5. Max

Top Female Cat Names:

  1. Luna
  2. Bella
  3. Oliver
  4. Kitty
  5. Charlie

In addition to these names, they also have breakouts of food names, rockstar names, Game of Thrones names, and others. You can even use their dog name generator to come up with options.

Filed Under: Pet Care Tagged With: cat, dog, female, food, game of thrones, holiday, male, pet names, rockstars, rover.com

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