A best seller! Cats go crazy when they watch this tape created just for them. Your cat will be entranced as he follows the antics of a menagerie of wildlife including birds, rabbits and chipmunks. 25 minutes/VHS.Price: $19.95
A best seller! Cats go crazy when they watch this tape created just for them. Your cat will be entranced as he follows the antics of a menagerie of wildlife including birds, rabbits and chipmunks. 25 minutes/VHS.Price: $19.95
Here are useful three tips to make your pet and those travelling with you stress free. Transporting pets takes a little preparation if you want a peaceful time and the effort will be worthwhile. Many cats and dogs find it stressful to travel in a car, so reduce that stress.
Transporting dogs is one thing, transporting cats is quite another. To reduce the stress to you the reader, lets just deal with dogs right now. Cats are quite a different kettle of fish if you know what I mean, so dogs it is.
Prepare: Making your dog feel at home in new surroundings is the key so make your car their home a few minutes every now and then when you are not travelling. Encourage your dog or puppy to make itself at home. Once inside the car close the door and start the engine. Then talk to your dog, calmly.
Education: Teach your pet that that the car is not the enemy, its just different. Your dog loves you and guess what? She or he wants to be with you. So if you are in the car guess where your dog wants to be? With you! So get it together in the car and have fun.
Trauma: Acclimatize your dog by feeding, petting or allowing him or her to sleep in the car. Put favorite toys in the car and let play commence, If you need to be a bit firmer, drag, coax or bribe the sonnovabitch but for goodness sake do not stress.
So...all this takes time and patience and you may not be immediately successful. However, you must not give up...do NOT give up...keep trying...keep working at it...but if all else fails...I know a guy who does a good deal on guns...
Seriously, most of the trauma related problems concerning transporting pets come from lack of preparation. Take your time, give your dog a chance and all will be well.
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Bill Cosby's animated young doppelganger visits the zoo, the pet store, and the responsibilities of pet care in this animal-centric installment of Cosby's gentle instructional series. In the first episode, Little Bill is impatient to see his favorite animals, the elephants, on his class trip, but he must learn patience since they are the last stop at the zoo. Inspired by his trip, in the second episode Little Bill gets permission from his parents to buy a pet but scales down his wishes from elephant to hamster. In the final two episodes, the class rabbit has bunnies, which class members seek homes for, eventually coming full circle to find a place for them at the zoo's petting area. With the stellar voice talent of Ruby Dee, Gregory Hines, Phylicia Rashad, and Doug E. Doug, this classy series (seen on Nick Jr.) makes race irrelevant through its universal stories. Ages 3-7. --Kimberly HeinrichsPrice: $12.95
Your dog or cat is probably is not all that worried about global warming and deforestation, but a lot of owners are, and so many are now adding environment friendly pet furniture to the eco-friendly items they have in their homes.
In just the last couple years there has been an explosion in eco friendly pet furniture sales, and to meet the demand manufacturers have produced a vast new array of pet related eco-friendly products.
Pet owners across the country are now seeking out quality, eco-friendly items for their pets, giving the same emphasis to buying planet saving products for their pets, as they do to their homes and vehicles.
This movement seems to be mushrooming each year, with sales of these products, such as certified organic pet beds booming across the nation. Many owners now feed their pets, as well as themselves, on organically produced food items. Many vinyl and plastic toys for pets are produced from soft PVC, which contains several harmful toxic chemicals. When your dog chews on his favorite squeaky ball these harmful chemicals can leach into the animals system, causing serious side effects such as organ damage and tumors.
It is preferable to search out toys that use natural dyes or organically grown fibers that are chemical and pesticide free, these items are also biodegradable. Another good example of pet and planet saving products are certified organic pet beds which are filled with various materials, often100% fleece scraps that have been recycled.
These beds can be slightly more expensive than regular pet beds, but are a better long-term investment as they are completely washable, even the soft filling. So instead of dumping the bed in the trash after a couple years, the bed should last your pet's lifetime. There are many other eco pet products available, such as environment friendly pet furniture, one stylish example is the 'Kings Bed,' a classy off the ground certified organic pet bed made from bamboo.
Holden designs have produced several upmarket pieces of eco friendly pet furniture including their chic raised pet feeding units. There are also dog and cat houses made of eco-friendly materials, such as replenishable wooden doghouses and interior cat homes made with recycled cotton materials.
Therefore, your pet can be as environmentally conscious as you are, with food, toys furniture and pet houses that are made from materials that will not harm the planet or you're pet.
Kristen Sky is founder of Modern Eco Homes dot com, which sells a wide range of indoor and outdoor eco-friendly furniture and certified organic pet products like pet beds [http://www.modernecohomes.com/eco-pets/]