Guide dogs have been used for decades to give individuals with vision problems true independence. Today The Seeing Eye, the oldest and one of the most successful guide dog programs in the world, is based in New Jersey on a 60 acre campus. The organization teaches dogs to become guides and trains their owners on how to work closely with their guide dogs for success.
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A personal observation today. As pet owners, we all love whatever kind of animal we own, but we must keep in mind that pets age far faster than humans do, with some pets’ lives dramatically shorter than ours. We have to treat these senior pets accordingly. This hit home with me this week because I had to take our cat, Peanut Butter, to the vet because she’s been acting strangely.
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One of our readers is undertaking a cross country drive with her dog and two hamsters and is concerned about how to prepare herself for traveling with pets for such a long drive. Sue Smith, our pet travel expert from Pet Travel, Inc., has some great advice for her.
“I’m going to be driving across the country with my pets (a dog and two hamsters) soon to move to a new part of the country.
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Every puppy looks adorable, and when you bring your new puppy home you’ll discover that she looks so cute you may have a hard time training her. After all, she’s so sweet, you’ll just hate being stern with her. Unfortunately, if you aren’t consistent with your puppy training, you’ll soon have a dog who isn’t well behaved. Sometimes, this leads to a wonderful pet being dropped at a shelter because that cute behavior from a tiny ball of fur isn’t nearly as attractive in a full-grown dog.
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We will soon be posting photos of adoptable pets from shelters across the U.S. at The Contemporary Pet. If your registered shelter or rescue organization would like to feature a special resident who is looking for a forever home, please email us at thecontemporarypet@yahoo.com with a photo and brief description.
If we do feature your shelter’s animal, we will contact you and let you know what day it is being featured.
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We have a reader whose veterinarian has recommended surgery to remove an abscess tooth. The reader is worried about the anesthesia, but Dr. Winkler addresses her worries.
” My mom’s dog died from anesthesia. Now my own dog needs surgery to remove an abscess tooth, but I’m worried that he will die too. Can the tooth be extracted without anesthesia? Is there a way to tell whether my dog will have a bad reaction to the anesthesia?”
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Shelters around the globe routinely take in more pets than they can effectively care for, but there are few alternatives when so many people give up their pets every year. There are endless reasons that pet owners drop off their dogs, cats and other pets at shelters, but there is a common theme running through all of them. What are the top ten reasons and what do they have in common?
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Most dog owners have run into the problem of an excited pet who jumps up on guests to greet them. While dogs jumping can be cute, it isn’t cute when your pet has grown up. It can even lead to either the guest or the dog being injured. A recent reader asks Kristen White how she can stop dogs jumping on her guests.
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