I know most of the "travel season" is behind some of you, for us however it seems it never ends with children, parents and relatives spread out all over the place. Take today for instance. We have arrived in North Carolina to visit my son and his girlfriend.My pups always look forward to the trips. They know something is up the moment we take the padding out of the kennel in preparation to
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All about Heartworms.
This month we are going to learn a little about heartworms. Heartworms are a serious parasite that all dog owners need to be aware of. Heartworms, in contrast to many intestinal parasites, are spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. The larval stages are injected into your pet and mature over the next 4-6 months into adult worms that live in the heart and larger blood vessels leading to the
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Dogs on Thursday...looking for a pet?
Hello!! How has everyone been doing? My life has been insane but here we are...another thursday so let's talk dogs.First wanted to share that my dogs got to go swimming again and they had a BLAST! Jackjack totally is picking up on the jumping into the pool! You can check out pictures and footage over here.So, for today's post I wanted to talk about petfinder! I'm not sure everyone knows about
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Mom Calls Me an Extortionist
Hi everybody! It's Penny here, and me and my mom Jean are very excited to be talking to you about Dogs on Thursday. I figured, since I'm a dog (or at least that's what they tell me anyway), I'd give you my perspective on things. (Mom's helping by typing for me -- darn this lack of opposable thumbs!)I'm 24 weeks old today. Yay me!! And last weekend, I graduated from puppy kindergarten. Yay me
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Health Benefits of Dog Ownership
Our perfect companions never have fewer then four feet.-----Colette----Let me take this opportunity, to openly confess here in front of you all, that I am...*gasp*...a dog person! I have been as far back as I can remember. Even when it wasn't cool to have a dog in the house, as a dog's place was outside in those days because well you know "dogs were dirty". My how things change!Most people get a
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Another Introduction!
Hi and Welcome to this week's DOT post!This week we are introducing Jean another wonderful person who stepped up to help out the DOT blog!"I'm Jean from Georgia, currently owned by Penny Jasmine (The Princess), who is a black and tan dappled dachshund puppy. By trade I'm a CPA who works to earn dog food and dog toys for The Princess, and when I'm not amusing her, I enjoy counted thread needlework
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Another Intro and another DOT!
Hello and Welcome to this week's Dogs on Thursday's post!This week...another introduction!! Please go over and say hello and welcome to the team to Nicki!A little about me...I'm a small animal veterinarian working in southwest MO. I graduated from Univ of MO College of Vet Med in 2004. I spend most of my free time training dogs! But I also enjoy running, spending time outside, listening to
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