If your dog or cat has ever encountered an eye issue, chances are your veterinarian recommended eye drops or an eye ointment to help them heal. These drops or gels can be a bit tricky to administer if you and…
Our canine friends generally give us quite a few warning signs - through their body language and behaviour - when they find a situation stressful, uncomfortable, or unsafe. It is often when we fail to recognize these signs that situations…
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to have a sick kitty who needs to take medication in the form of pills or tablets, you may have already experienced the challenge of convincing these sometimes-picky and always-crafty felines to take their…
Sometimes called a cone, lampshade, or party hat (or even the 'cone of shame,' although we don't like that one so much!), an Elizabethan collar is a plastic device that fits around your cat’s neck and is designed to keep…
Although most of us don't love thinking about emergencies and worst-case scenarios, it sure feels great when we have the right tools and action plans if something unexpected does come up. When a little forethought and preparation can help keep…
|| Supporting Your Senior Feline || Many elements that we often think of as inevitable aspects of getting older - decreased energy levels, stiffness and reluctance to move, general grumpiness - are in fact signs and symptoms of discomfort. This…
It happens from time to time that you need to switch your companion to a new food - perhaps they're starting a diet trial, maybe a particular product has been discontinued, or maybe your veterinarian has identified a better nutritional…
For us humans, Halloween can be a night full of delicious treats, creative costumes, and spine-tingling chills. For our companion animals, however, this can be one of the most genuinely frightening nights of the year. Startling noises, disguised humans, dangerous…
Pet skin allergies can be a bit sneaky. First of all, the skin is the body’s largest organ - so there’s lots of physical space for issues to arise. Second, animals are furry! Their skin can often be hard to…
|| What is a Microchip? || A microchip is a small glass capsule, about the size of a grain of rice. It contains a computer chip that stores a unique number that can be used to identify an animal when…