WhiskerFeathers News

Smiling Eyes and Wagging Tails
Happy Saint Patrick’s to all our Irish and non-Irish readers! This day is celebrated all over the world with with parades, the New York parade is the biggest in the world. People gather for parties and all sorts of festivities. We all really need to stop and celebrate life and what [...]

Pack Their Bags!

 
We’ve talked about the need to keep your pet prepared for disasters. A part of that preparedness is to have a kit put together ahead of time. I have a list of items that are recommended by the official San Francisco website, http://sfgov.org, they know a thing or two about disasters such as [...]

Let’s All  Eat Better
Since people  and dogs have been hanging out together they have been big on sharing. We’ve been sharing housing, sharing work, sharing hunting and also sharing food. Cat domestication has also brought about a lot of sharing. Cats have shared the fire and the hearth since they were gods back in Egypt, [...]

It’ easy enough to say that we need to exercise our dogs more and watch what they eat in order to keep them at a good weight and therefore healthy. This is the same principle we humans should follow. Long walks and lots of play will usually take care of the exercise part. Watch as [...]

A Real Couch Potato

It’s a known fact that January 1st of each year after all the holiday festivities there is a day of reckoning. We ate too much and maybe drank too much and the scales are not our friend. The annual national weight loss frenzy begins. Be sure to include our dog in your getting [...]

I didn’t grow up having pets of any kind. I was attacked by a dog when I was a little girl sitting on my aunt’s porch. That event made me especially afraid of dogs. Ironically enough my very first job was in the Pet Department at a local Woolworths. They sold birds, gold fish, gerbils, [...]