5 Tips for Brushing your Dog’s Teeth

Just as it’s important for humans to have good oral health, it is equally important for your furry family member to have nice clean teeth as well!  You may not think it, but brushing your dog’s teeth can reduce the risk of oral diseases as well as aliments related to their respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems.

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Purina Veterinary Exchange: Teaching Feline Dental Care

Just as with humans, feline dental care offers far more than a sweet smile and fresh breath: It's actually an important component for good overall health and for quality of life, says Susan Little, DVM, Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Feline), and President of the Winn Feline Foundation. Why?

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The Humane Society of the United States is Offering a Reward of Up to $7,000 for Information leading to the Arrest/Conviction of the Person(s) Responsible for Intentionally Burning a Dog in Prince George's County, Maryland

From Prince George's County Animal Shelter :

As difficult as animal cruelty can be to see, we are asking you to share Leonidas' story in the hopes that we can find the person responsible. Thanks to the PGSPCA and the HSUS for offering a reward for information leading to a conviction in his case.

Leonidas, a shining example of the loving and forgiving nature of dogs, is healing amazingly well and is starting on his journey to a new loving home!


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8 Pit Bull Lies You Might Believe

Pit Bulls get a bad rap because of so much media attention surrounding dog fighting rings. The fact is, most pitties are wonderful dogs. This video is perfect to share with those who doubt your views on pits or to better educate yourself on Pit Bull facts.

Divers Remove Invasive Surgeonfish

Two women scuba diving beneath Palm Beach County’s Blue Heron Bridge during the Thanksgiving holiday spotted a bright yellow fish about four inches long they had never seen before.

Some divers might have just admired it, snapped photos and kept swimming, but Deb Devers and Lureen Ferretti reported it to the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) — a Key Largo-based non-profit organization that serves as a regional clearinghouse for control of exotic marine fish species.

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7 Myths About Dog Care - (Written by a Dog)

Hi my human friends, my name is Skai Wantstofly and my dad, Dr. D., is a vet. Dad  says that I am the ambassador of natural healing.  I am not sure what it means exactly but I know that it is about feeling good and making us, dogs better without chemicals, vaccines and drugs.

I have always loved the number 7 because it looks a little bit like a stick and I looove sticks. So today, I have seven myths to many humans still believe

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8 Signs Your Cat Might Be Sick

Just as humans get sick so do cats, however unlike humans cats do not poses the ability to complain to their mummies that their tummy hurts, Recognizing the signs and symptoms that your cat shows can help immensely in relieving them of any discomfort. Below are 8 signs that can quickly identify if your cat is sick or not.

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It's a Dog's Afterlife: Pope Francis Hints that Animals go to Heaven

The pontiff’s remarks were interpreted by some as bringing ‘hope of salvation … to animals and the whole of creation’

Animals, too, go to heaven. That, at least, was one interpretation of remarks made by Pope Francis in his weekly general audience in the Vatican.

The endlessly controversial 77-year-old pontiff said: “The holy scripture teaches us that the fulfilment of this wonderful design also affects everything around us.”

The pope went on to quote from St Paul, St Peter and the Book of Revelation in support of the view that “what lies ahead … is therefore a new creation”.

He added: “It is not an annihilation of the universe and all that surrounds us. Rather it brings everything to its fullness of being, truth and beauty.”

Italian daily Corriere della Sera was in no doubt about his meaning. “It broadens the hope of salvation and eschatological beatitude to animals and the whole of creation,” wrote the paper’s Vatican specialist in an article published on Thursday. 

Others were not convinced.

“We all say that there will be a continuity between this world and the joyful one of the future, [but also] a transformation,” said Gianni Colzani, an emeritus professor of theology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.

“It is the balance between the two things that we are not in a position to determine. For that reason, I think we shouldn’t make [Pope Francis] say more than he says.”

Though a noted cat-lover, Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, seemed to close the doors of heaven firmly to pets and other animals in a sermon he gave in 2008. “For other creatures, who are not called to eternity, death just means the end of existence on Earth,” he said.

Certainly, the Catholic catechism holds out little hope for the animal kingdom in the next life – and not much for it in this life either. The keynote is the absolute primacy of mankind as the species which, according to Christian doctrine, was created in God’s image.

“Animals, like plants and inanimate beings, are by nature destined for the common good of past, present, and future humanity,” it says, while cautioning that “animals are God’s creatures”, and therefore “men owe them kindness”.