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Health and Fitness
4 Simple Ways to Exercise Your Cat
Cats may sleep an average of 15 hours per day, they still need to get up and play! Exercise is as important for your cat as it is for you. It helps cats to loose weight, maintain a proper weight, strengthen muscles, i...
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Making Sure your Hero Cat has a Strong Core
Being a hero cat requires that the cat needs to be ready and able to save children or overcome other challenges at a moment’s notice. In order to accomplish acts of heroism, most hero cats need to be fit, and eat pro...
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The Cost of Not Taking your Cat to the Vet
American research shows that cats visit veterinarians less frequently than dogs. The number of owned cats however, keeps increasing. Why do more and more people refuse to go the vet? This phenomenon can partly be expl...
Health and Fitness
Pre-Breakfast Exercise: Fat Burner for Dogs?
According to theAssociation for Pet Obesity Prevention, more than half of all dogs in the US are overweight. Keeping a dog fit and trim requires proper feeding and ample exercise. I often wonder if some of the techniq...
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Intro to Tara the Hero Cat
We are joined today by Roger and Tara the Hero Cat. For those who don’t know, Tara became an internet sensation when she was caught on camera defending her family. When Roger’s 6 year old son Jeremy was attacked by...
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Steps to Keep your Cat Lean and Healthy
We previously wrote a post that presented some of the high costs of having an overweight or obese cat. Today we outline some steps to keep your cat lean and healthy. The decisions that you make about your cat’s food ...
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U.S. Pet Obesity: The Total Number of Pounds our Dogs are Overweight
According to the 2014 Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) survey, the number of obese dogs has risen the past two years and the total number of overweight or obese dogs in the US is almost 44 million. I thou...
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Workout and Beauty Tips by Abby
Many of us come up with excuses to miss a workout with our dog. Sometimes these excuses are related to the way we feel (we are too tired or busy) and sometimes they are related to our pet (they are too tired or don't...
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Obesity Epidemic? It’s Not Just You
Obesity statistics in the U.S. have been climbing for decades. According to the CDC more than one-third of American adults are obese (35.7%). The causes seem to lie not only with genetics, but also (and mostly with) ...
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5 Ways to Add Mental Challenges to your Dog’s Walks
We all know exercise is important for the health of our dogs. In addition to burning calories, a daily walk also helps with socialization and building a bond between the dog and owner. But walking your dog has another...
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The Prerequisite to Training Any Dog
I love the phrase that Cesar Millan often uses: “You don’t always get the dog you want but you always get the dog you need.” One often hears him using this phrase when working with a dog owner that had to change somet...
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Pet Friendly Gardens
Last spring I had big plans to plant a pet friendly garden in the backyard of our new townhome. Unfortunately, we no longer live there and were somewhat forced into a two bedroom apartment with no yard. At first I tho...