Fear Free Happy Homes
Reading Time: 4 minutes When thunderstorms strike, does your cat run and hide under the bed or in the closet? Maybe you notice that she just disappears and you don’t think much about it? Dogs earn the greatest amount of recognition when it comes to fear of thunderstorms because their reactions are more visible: they tremble, pace, hide, try […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Storm phobia is a problem not just because dogs are afraid. The physiological reaction to fear is bad enough—the racing heart, the rush of stress hormones—but fear also causes dogs to react in dangerous or destructive ways. They may destroy doors or jump through windows in an attempt to escape the frightening situation. By the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If your dog is fearful of storms with thunder, lightning, hail, or high winds, you’re not alone. There are no statistics on the numbers of pets with storm phobia–or to give the fear its scientific name, astraphobia–but it’s likely that the prevalence of this type of noise sensitivity in dogs is 20 percent or higher, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s more to keeping dogs satisfied with their lives than reducing fear, anxiety, and stress. At Global Pet Expo this year, we looked for items that would make dogs happy and enrich their environment every day. Here’s what we found. Whether you toss them on the ground or in the water, Rogz Pop-Upz always land […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s more to keeping cats satisfied with their lives than reducing fear, anxiety, and stress. At Global Pet Expo this year, we looked for items that would make cats happy and enrich their environment every day. Here’s what we found. It’s so nice, we liked it twice. The Catit people are back with their Treat […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are lots of positive ways to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in the life of a dog, and many of them involve providing our canine pals with ways to take their minds off their concerns or simply to be more comfortable in whatever situation they find themselves. We found some favorites here at Global […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are lots of positive ways to reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in the life of a cat, and many of them involve providing our feline friends with a more normal environment: one that meets their natural needs or is attractive in other ways. We found some favorites here at Global Pet Expo, all of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scratching. It’s a perfectly normal, natural cat behavior that meets grooming, exercise, and communication needs. But while cats enjoy the sensation of scratching and use their scratch marks to send messages to other cats—“Blinky was here” or “Look how big I am!”—the destructive nature of the habit can put owners and cats at odds with […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Does your cat streak for the bedroom and dash underneath the bed every time she hears the doorbell ring? Do visitors seem disbelieving that you actually have a cat because they’ve never seen her? I know just how you feel. That was the case with my cat Shelby, a beautiful but painfully shy black-and-white domestic […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is the worst when you have the flu or are recuperating from surgery, a broken bone or other injury. All you want to do is lie around and feel sorry for yourself. But if you have a houseful of pets, or even just one, that’s just not possible. Your dog or cat needs you […]