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Why and How Cats Hunt: Feline Hunting Behavior Explained

Why and How Cats Hunt: Feline Hunting Behavior Explained

Is your kitty a "mighty hunter?" How does your cat hunt and what kind of big game does s/he capture? I've written about gift-bearing cats before to explain the whole idea behind why Sheba leaves mousy offerings just for you, URK!

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THRILLER BOOKS 1-3 AUDIOBOOK SALE!

THRILLER BOOKS 1-3 AUDIOBOOK SALE!

I've discounted the first three books in the September & Shadow Thriller Series (USUALLY $24.99) in a CHIRP deal yee-haw! So if you've not yet listened, here's your chance to get all 3 for $2.99. (OFFER EXPIRES JULY 31, 2025)

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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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How to Keep Cats & Dogs Cool in Hot Weather

How to Keep Cats & Dogs Cool in Hot Weather

Yikes! It's hot-hot-hot here in Texas. Shadow-Pup is NOT happy. He misses his ZOOMIES in the back garden, but I'm afraid to let him overdo too much. It's time for hot weather games for pets and keeping cats and dogs cool in hot weather.

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How to Keep Pets Safe in Hot Weather

How to Keep Pets Safe in Hot Weather

Hot weather pet safety around here is a matter of life and death for cats and dogs. I live in N. Texas where it's not unusual for weather to have everyone hot under the collar. Just imagine how pets feel with a fur coat. Older dogs have more sense and aren't as prone to overdo. But our rescue pup Shadow acts clueless, and we have to physically confine him or he'd never stop playing even in 100-degree weather.

These tips can help you prevent problems, or even save your pet’s life.

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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 wanted to learn more. UPDATE APRIL […]

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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! The health benefits of pets keep us active, engaged, and happy, stress-free, and so much more.

There are Multiple Health Benefits of Pets: Stress Busters & Heart Attack Recovery

The health benefits of owning pets, especially the ability to calm us down, help enormously during these stressful times. We’re obsessing over the economy, cost of gas, health care, natural disasters, the pandemic, missing family and friends, and so much more. We need all the stress-busting help we can find.

In fact, health insurance companies should give pet owners a cost break on premiums. Studies show that people with pets get sick less often, and recover more quickly than those without animal friends. Infants and children who grow up with furry companions are less likely to develop allergies as they mature. . .

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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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