We love infographics about pets and animals! This great one has lots of fun cartoon drawings of dogs combined with a bunch of facts in easy-to-digest little blurbs about the health benefits, companionship, home securtity, how they teach responsibility, increase social interaction, help with day to day tasks, and provide humans with entertainment! It was created by the website TheDogTrainingSecret.com and you can view the full-size infographic in all its glory by visiting their website here.
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April 27 is National Hairball Awareness Day for 2012! (Really!) The holiday (hairiday?) always falls on the last Friday in April. The first time I ever heard my cat hacking up a hairball, I thought he was choking to death. I was frantically digging the carrier out of the depths of my closet to rush him to the vet when he hurled up the offending mass in the middle of the hallway rug. Ewwwwww. For newbie cat owners, like me at the time, the gross wet ball of hair was not anything I’d understood from my crash-course in new cat ownership. To me, the word “hairball” conjured up a dry, fluffy thing – not a sticky smelly mess. I knew that almost all cats would regurgitate the hair they’d groomed off themselves (or their feline friends), some more frequently than others. That hairballs in cats are more likely to appear in long-haired breeds, such as Persians and Maine Coons. But even shorthair cats that shed a lot or who groom themselves compulsively can have frequent hairballs, because they swallow a lot of fur. My new cat apparently fell into the latter category. Aside from the gross factor to us humans, hairballs can actually be dangerous to a cat’s life if they form a blockage that the cat can’t safely cough up. So I quickly learned what I could do to help reduce hairballs in his system – and on my carpet! Here’s what I found suggested in books, by my vet, other cat owners, and online.
I am very proud to be able to tell people about her and how she came to live with me. Here is another picture so you can see what she looks like. She is short and long, 25 lbs, she looks like a Dachsund and a Lab both. Sounds like a Lab when she barks (which is not often, just during play and fixin’ of supper!! She has the best of both as far as her personality. I give my permission for the use of the pictures and the story… maybe it will inspire someone to get out and rescue one of these beautiful doggies or kitty cat, to make their life complete.