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Special-Needs Pets Conquer Hearts and Homes

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …into the elevator. For snowy areas, you can get skis instead of wheels.” Lorie Lewis Ham adopted Merlin, a four-month-old orange tabby kitten with a missing paw. You’d never know…

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Making Baby-Friendly Pets—Even If You Don’t Have Kids

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …the time your own baby appears, the pet will celebrate the new arrival. Ask friends, relatives, or neighbors with a baby to visit as often as possible. Puppies and kittens…

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Marriage Pending? How Do You Merge Your Pets?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …I’m betting you have changed jobs, moved, entered a new personal relationship, or made other major life decisions. Through this entire time, your pet has been your supportive ally. In…

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Even as Young Puppies, Dogs Look to People for Reassurance

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading Time: 2 minutes“Social referencing” is a fancy term for a familiar phenomenon: when uncertain about a new situation, you check to see how everyone else is reacting. Are they…

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How Helping Pets Helps People Escape Domestic Violence

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …pets if they left them behind. Nathaniel Fields, president and CEO of Urban Resource Institute (URI), a New York-based nonprofit that offers domestic violence services, said both people and pets…

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Walk This Way: Stress-Free First Time On A Leash

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Reading Time: 3 minutesI couldn’t wait to take Oscar, my new Dalmatian puppy, outside for his first walk around our block. Clipping the leash onto his collar went well but…

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Five Cat Toys You Can Make In Less Than Five Minutes

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Reading Time: 4 minutes …“prey” item every day for a month, it’s truly dead. That doesn’t mean you need to buy your cat a new toy every week. It does mean you should rotate…

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Does Your Cat Hate Company? Help Her Cope

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Reading Time: 2 minutes …E’Lise Christensen Bell, DVM, DACVB, a board-certified veterinary behaviorist at Behavior Vets in New York, New York. “Many cats are very particular about their friends, and it can take a…

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Fun And Stress-Free Ways To Include Dogs In The Howl-idays

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …“Then they each get a new toy. Christmas morning they get stockings with tennis balls and bully sticks.” Kristi Brashier also offers treats and new toys in the dogs’ stockings…

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Anxiety Often Accompanies Cognitive Dysfunction

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Reading Time: 4 minutes …humans, because this change in life can be upsetting to watch. The good news is that you don’t have to stand helplessly by–there are things you can do to help….