With so many shows on the TV that are such a turn off to me, I’m grateful for channels like the Discovery Channel, The History Channel and The Animal Planet Channel. It’s Me or The Dog is really a good show, Victoria has helped a tremendous amount of people with their doggie issues and I think that she is in for a long career with The Animal Planet.
OK, I know that pets really aren’t people, but our family loves our pets just as much as if they were actual people. We are very careful to pick out the best dog care products on the market because we want our dogs to live a good, long time. There is a lot of emotional investment in those guys, and we don’t enjoy the process of saying good-bye to them at the end of their lives.
Our kids have tried their hands at a variety of small pets, such as hamsters and gerbils. I don’t know why, but they didn’t have very good luck with them. They seemed to get sick and die very quickly. I don’t know if we used the wrong cleaning products on their cages, or what, but they seemed to die right off. After about six tries with them, we gave up. It got too traumatic for the kids to keep losing their little pets.
One of my favorite products for cat care is the self-cleaning automatic litter box. It was an expensive product to buy, but well worth the investment. We found that by lining the disposable trays with plastic shopping bags, the trays lasted for several months at a time. This was my wife’s idea, and I think it was a really smart one!
I think that young adults have a harder time finding housing then when I was a kid. Nowadays the landlords want a lot more in the way of security deposits and and rent and references than they used to! I can remember when I was fresh out of high school and I was looking for a house for rent. Naturally my parents were ambivalent about my leaving the nest! I went to the local college and looked on the bulletin boards to see if anyone was looking for room-mates.
I ended up living in a two bedroom house with one other guy and two girls. There wasn’t much privacy there, that is for sure! Pete had a pet snake that he kept in an aquarium in the living room. He used to feed it gerbils, which upset the girls a lot! I can remember one day when we discovered that the snake was missing! The girls were extremely upset! We couldn’t calm them down for love nor money! Fortunately we found the snake before bedtime that night, curled up in a corner of the laundry room. It wasn’t long after that Pete moved out of the house!
I’ve noticed a lot of “hot spots” on our old dog lately. That makes me kinda sad, because I know it is a sign of old age. Do you know what a “hot spot” is? It’s veterinarian lingo for “bed sore.” Our dog is spending so much time lying down that she is developing bed sores on the pressure points of her hips, knees, and ankles. Kinda perplexing because she has a nice soft dog bed to sleep on; I have a hard time imagining that she would even get bed sores. But there they are, just the same! Makes me sad to think how this is such a sign of aging, and that means that she won’t be “with us” for many more years.
Russ and Gail love to Golf Myrtle Beach. We have been neighbors for about ten years now, and every February they disappear for the entire month to take advantage of one of the many Myrtle Beach Golf Packages that they have found that allows them to play their favorite golf courses. While they are off enjoying their Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations they have my wife go and water their plants a couple of times each week, and we bring their dog and cat over to our house to pet sit for them.
We don’t mind pet-sitting, their dog is a very affectionate Irish Wolfhound with a great personality, and their cat is, well, their cat is a cat! But at least the cat doesn’t scratch up the place or spray the walls, and doesn’t keep us awake crying all night long, so that is good! Russ and Gail send us a postcard from Myrtle Beach, and they always bring back some nice souvenirs, too!
Up until recently I’ve always bought all of the medicines for our pets directly from the veterinarian. It was quick, easy and convenient. And for the most part the time frame for giving the medicines was something along the lines of “give now” and really couldn’t wait a few days to administer.
Then maintenace medications were created, and the expansion of shopping online has created the opportunity to buy heartworm products online for less money than you have to pay the veterinarian. That is well worth looking into! While my wife was looking for places to do that, she ran across a website in Australia that sells medicines online, offers locals doggy daycare, and sells spoodle puppies sydney. It wasn’t clear whether they carried the puppies in the store itself, or if they specialized in helping customers find breeders. She wanted to look at pictures of the puppies, and get more information about the puppies, but the link that was supposed to carry her to the pictures said that there were not any puppies currently available!