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Best Pet Door, Puppy Gate, and Pet Gate Options: How to Train Pets to Use Baby Gate

Best Pet Door, Puppy Gate, and Pet Gate Options: How to Train Pets to Use Baby Gate

According to many who know, a cat is always on the wrong side of the door. They drive us crazy with meow-demands to open the door, let them in, let them out, with rarely any rhyme or reason to their requests. So pet doors, baby gates for pets, puppy gates, and other pet barriers can offer the best options for your cats and dogs.

Why Use Pet Gates?

People use pet doors and puppy gates for convenience, but also for safety reasons. While dog doors typically give access to the backyard doggy potty area, there are multiple ways a pet door benefits Kitty. Think outside the cat box and a pet door helps you manage your multi-pet household, as well as potential behavior issues.

There are too many risks involved to allow cats or dogs to roam outside unsupervised. Coyotes come right up on my back patio and would love to munch my Karma-Kat. But if partnered with a safe area, a pet door offers lots of convenience for a cat, especially when you aren’t home to do door duty.

Install pet doors in the interior or exterior walls, doors, windows, or even sliding panels to give access to an inside room, or safe outdoor area. Cats love window watching, so this can be a great option when the pet door unit simply fits into the existing opening.

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How to Provide Scent Enrichment for Cats

How to Provide Scent Enrichment for Cats

Our cats are sensory creatures, but we often overlook their acute sense of smell. Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado reports that studies indicate cats can even sniff out their human’s stress–detecting fear, happy smells, and more. Scent enrichment for cats in their environment offers inexpensive, effective, and fun ways to keep your cats happy, stress-free, and healthy. It often reduces, eliminates, or prevents cat behavior problems.

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Make Car Rides Pet Safe With Harnesses

Make Car Rides Pet Safe With Harnesses

Pets car ride safe travel provides vital protection for dogs and cats. With Magical-Dawg, we used a pet gate to keep him safely in the back seat, and later a halter that buckled into the seatbelt. Bravo suffered from car sickness, so we added seat covers to protect the car seat. These days, Shadow-Pup thinks he owns the car and demands a ride every morning. That means we make car rides pet safe with harnesses.

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CBD Oil For Dogs from HempMy Pet

CBD Oil For Dogs from HempMy Pet

I was contacted by HempMy Pet about their hemp pet treats and CBD oil for dogs. Now, I’ve heard about hemp oil for dogs, and the Internet has a wide variety of hemp products and organic pet treats available. Since a veterinarian endorsed the products on the website, I...

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What Are the Health Benefits of Pets?

What Are the Health Benefits of Pets?

Anyone who has ever lived with a cat or dog knows they increase our happiness quotient. But did you know that they actually improve our health? Multiple studies have proven what pet lovers intuitively have known forever. Pets are good for what ails you!

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Cat Scratch Training Tips: How to Stop Cats from Clawing Furniture

Cat Scratch Training Tips: How to Stop Cats from Clawing Furniture

One of the top questions I receive involves how to stop cats from clawing. The answer is–you can’t! But you CAN teach them to scratch “legal” options instead of your furniture. And of course, you can clip your cat’s claws–here’s how. As with other behavior “pet peeves,” the key is understanding the issue from the cat’s point of view.

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Can My Pet Make Me Sick?

Can My Pet Make Me Sick?

Modern headlines scream warnings about the latest animal-to-people diseases including SARS, bird flu, and most recently, a coronavirus outbreak suspected to jump species from critters, originating in China. Technically termed zoonosis, such diseases not only make animals sick but can also jump species from an animal to a human under normal conditions. In rare cases, humans can infect pets. Here are the most common culprits and what you need to know.

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How to Deal with Pet Loss Grief: Love Lives Forever

How to Deal with Pet Loss Grief: Love Lives Forever

I’ve often before about pet loss, the grieving process for both owners and pets, and even whether we can expect our animal friends to be with us in heaven. Whatever your personal belief system, the universal commonality is if you love pets, it hurts to lose them.

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Recent Posts

How to Live with Deaf Dogs

Perhaps you adopted a deaf dog, or only recently discovered your canine friend can’t hear as well as expected. Dogs get along quite well even with a deficit in hearing. So as long as you make accommodations for your pet, the love keeps on going and tails continue to wag.

Why Is My Dog Ignoring Me? Selective hearing in dogs

Dogs often appear to have selective hearing, just as humans do. Put yourself in your dog’s paws, and it makes sense that they ignore human chatter. Most of the “mouth noise” that people spout doesn’t matter to dogs, and to get King’s attention, it must trump whatever else has his attention. …

What Does Offering a Paw Mean?

I’ve written about dogs pawing your arm in the past, but what about–just waving that paw in the air? What does offering a paw mean? Here’s an ASK AMY video with the deets.

Cat Treats Help Make Cats Friendlier!

Baby cats almost always enjoy some snuggles and lap time. But as cats mature, their c’attitude often changes. So how can you “make” your cat more friendly? Here’s my take…

Why Is Your Cat Obsessed With Phones & Tablets

When the phone rings, does your cat come running? At our house, until recently we still have a land line with a long cord, in addition to our cell phones. My Karma-Kat tried to bite through the long red spiral cord whenever I’m in a conversation. Some cat lovers report that their kitties become aggressive around the telephone. Here’s what’s going on…

Dogs in Myth & Superstition

Here’s an excerpt from my book DOG LIFE (including a video and song!) featuring favorite dog myths and superstitions, just in time for Halloween. Enjoy!

Halloween Pets Safety: Protect Pets from Halloween Goblins

Halloween pet safety is needed every year. Halloween at its best is a night of mystery, fun, and thrills for human children and many adults. It’s important to keep your human kiddoes safe with these tips, but no less important for the pets. I write about Halloween pets safety every year because it can be a nightmare for your furry kids.

Dealing With Feral Cats: Our Responsibility

October 16 is National Feral Cat Day. North Texas is home to quite a large population of ferals–wild felines–that would benefit from a formal TNR program.

This is very close to my heart because Seren-Kitty was dumped on the streets at age seven weeks, and Karma met the same fate at eight months old. Had I not found and adopted them, their lives would have been much different.

Feral cats live life on the fringes. They breed, give birth, and raise kittens with little to no human contact. These are not pet cats gone wild (strays)–they are wild animals that really cannot be tamed unless caught as kittens. Even then, they may never be a typical pet cat, but face behavior challenges all their life.

Why should we care? Because if not managed properly, feral cats become a nuisance and health risk to owned cats, and even humans. Felines squabbling outside your window wind up your owned indoor cats and can result in cat fights. Caring for ferals is also the ethical, humane thing for caring people to do. Here’s what you need to know.

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