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Pet Portraits

kate — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:09:21 +0000

I ran across a wonderful artist who does pet portraits in the Kansas City area. I have used her for holiday cards and things like that. Please visit her websight at www.annemariehunter.com and check her out. I am sure that you will find her work as great as I do. She will come to your house and take photos of you and your pets so that you will have the memories forever. I just love her. There are several pet photographers in the Kansas City area but I will tell you she is my favorite.

Till next time!

Trash

kate — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:33:56 +0000

Sorry that it has been so long since I last blogged but I am asking for your help. I introduced you to Moe, my very favorite Basset hound, and we have a trash problem. He can’t stay out of it. This is a common problem among the hound group so as usual I googled to see if there were any worthwhile solutions out there. Most of the experts say keep the trash where he can’t get to it. My problem is that I really don’t have anyplace for a trashcan. We set it outside when we leave but this is going to attract animals. I have also heard spray it with sour apple (we tried that with the furniture when Maggie chewed it but that is a different story) but that doesn’t work. So I pose the question…..Does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep dogs out of the trash? Ponder and let me know.

Till next time

Kate

Fleas and Ticks

kate — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:10:56 +0000

I am sorry that we haven’t been updating the blog as we should however it has been a busy couple of weeks. I hope all our poopers out there had a wonderful Memorial weekend. Please make sure that we keep our poopers cool and out of the direct rays of the sun with plenty of water. Summer has hit us hard the last few days and we want to make sure we keep our four legged friends healthy.

One thing I have noticed is a large amount of ticks this season. Keep up with you flea and tick treatment as these can cause the whole family some discomfort and sickness if they get out of hand. There was an article in the New York Post, I think it was the post, that some of the flea and tick treatments can actually burn the skin of your dogs. Please keep an eye out to make sure that you dogs are not having any bad reactions to the medications. I always recommend using the traditional flea and tick treatments but if your dog is very sensitive to these there are some natural things you can do to help keep fleas and ticks away. Feed your dog garlic! It helps you can also rub some garlic on them (just a little will do it).

Till Next time

Kate

Poops and Scoops

Dog Sitting

kate — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:22:50 +0000

This week was busy. We were dog sitting for two sweet little poopers, Jack and Clover. Jack is a nice beagle, very calm by beagle standards, and Clover is a basset mutt mix, not calm by any standard. Clover is up for adoption from Beagles and More rescue group. I will get a link to there web page as soon as I can. Please support your local rescue group. There are some many dogs out there that need homes. Clover is just a baby and the sweetest dog you will meet. It is hard to get mad at her when she does bad puppy behavior because she just loves on you and gets so excited over tummy rubs and scratches. She really is a great dog.

Four dogs is a lot of dogs in the house. A little wondrous thing that saved my carpets is an invention called the Paw Plunger. Google it you won’t be sorry. You just stick their little paws in and the brushes that remove the mud. Its genius. If you have dogs with muddy paws this is the best thing ever. It might take them a little while to get use to it. My dogs don’t even fight it they just let me plunge them and then they get a treat.

Till next week!

Kate

Summer poop

kate — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:53:37 +0000

Summer is coming and the pets will be outside more and more. I am sure your olifactory senses will certainly notice the intenseness of “poop.” Pets wil be leaving lots of deposits that are not the most healthy for your family or your animals. If these deposits are left in your yard, it breeds germs and definitely spoils the environment.

I have one customer who insists on on leaving me an extra “poop” everytime I come. He seems to be aware of good sanitation. It will be one less “poop” in the yard until next week.

This is just a reminder that Poops and Scoops can keep your environment safe and pleasant for the summer.

(This is writen by one of my favorite customers. I just wanted to display the loyalty of our most favorite poopers. See you next week)

Dog Blog-Plants and your Pets

kate — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:19:49 +0000

Well, what a week it has been. I was going to do the Dog Blog on fleas and ticks this week but an interesting thing happened to Moe this week. It was Thursday night and about 2:00 in the morning (Ok Technically it was Friday morning but you know what I mean) and I awoke to Moe crying. This is not an unusual thing so I get up and walk around the bed, thinking he has to go Potty, only to step in a slimy pile of something. I love it when that happens. I flip on the light, my husband sleeping through all of this, to find 10 piles of dog vomit. Now, Moe is a puker. He throws up a lot. This was over the top even for him. I go out into the kitchen and found that he has consumed three Dieffenbachia leaves off my plant. I know that this is toxic to dogs but I am not sure how toxic they are. I put him outside and start cleaning up the piles trying to figure out what to do. He didn’t look like he was on his death bed he was just vomiting over, and over, and over, and over again. My poor baby. I awoke my husband to go and check on my little guy and make sure he was ok and I got on Google and started the research.

Meanwhile I called the Lee’s Summit Emergency Animal Hospital to see what they recommended. They informed me that it would cause him to vomit and get diarrhea and to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn’t get dehydrated and wasn’t getting worse. I hung up feeling a little better but did find out that some dogs (and children) can have a severe reaction to this plant. It can cause irritation and swell the dog’s membrane tissues and tongue to the point of possible suffocation.

Moe is doing fine. It was a long night of vomit and wining with momma Kate up all night making sure he was as comfortable as he could be and not in any danger of suffocation or dehydration. The next day he was a little sluggish and not to hungry. Soon he was his old self getting into the trash and eating not just his food but our good dog Maggie’s food (I am sure we will blog about her in the near future).

Here are some helpful links.

ASPCA animal poison control http://www.aspca.org/

Animal Emergency & Referral Hospital
3495 NE Ralph Powell Rd.
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
816-554-4990
1-888-394-2831
Fax 816-524-2973
www.aerh-kc.com