Pet Food Recall Natura Pet

by Mary Haight on June 18, 2013

Pet Food Recall Natura Pet’s PR release follows and states that of all Innova, California Natural, EVO, Healthwise, Mother Nature and Karma branded dry pet food and biscuit/bar/treat products with expiration dates prior to June 10, 2014 are being recalled. There is a refund form on their site. (All bolding is mine, Ed.)

For Immediate Release
Contact: Natura Pet Consumer Relations – 800-224-6123
June 18, 2013

Natura Pet Issues Voluntary Recall of Specialized Dry Pet Foods Due to Possible Health Risk [click to continue…]

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puppy death at PetcoA February puppy death at Petco on Long Island during a training session was in the news and I was shocked all over again. The update centered around policy — the dog’s family want Petco to change their training policies, providing more than the current 16 weeks of education, adding CPR training.

Petco has not made any changes to policy according to the CBS [click to continue…]

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Shock Collars – Is There Appropriate Use?

by Mary Haight on June 1, 2013

shock collarShock collars became a topic of conversation on FB last night — I shared a post on a dog collar that was touted as a GPS system complete with an android app. It looked well-designed, even sleek (not pictured here). I shared it. Long story short, Hilary Lane also shared it, and got notified on her business page that the company had a shock application built into the collars for obedience and invisible fence use. That fact was not apparent in the third party review. [click to continue…]

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When is Lyme Disease Not Lyme? Tufts New Tick Discovery

May 23, 2013

When is Lyme disease not Lyme? Good question – there’s been some head-scratching in the medical community in cases where blood tested negative for Lyme, while all the other symptoms were evidenced. Can you still have Lyme if you flunk the test for Lyme? Tufts new tick discovery could be the answer to that. Since [...]

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Top Tips for a Dog-Friendly Summer

May 16, 2013

This post is brought to you by Pets at Home, which helps support this blog. With the dog days of summer just around the corner, many of you will be thinking about how you’ll be spending it, as well as what you’ll be doing with your pets in the meantime. Here we’ve compiled our favourite [...]

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Breed Specific Legislation – Pride, Prejudice & the Damning of Pit Bulls

May 11, 2013

Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) was recently banned in Connecticut, thanks to all members of the House who, having more sense than most, voted down breed bans 142/0. There had been legislation moving through the General Assembly that would allow cities to enact bans. This unanimous vote wiped those attempts off the schedule. Now the Senate [...]

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Ag-Gag Laws & Puppy Mills, Gutting Animal Protection

April 30, 2013

Amending the Humane Act to work against itself is the new popular pursuit of a particular group of Republicans. This is not a political statement, merely a factual one. These Ag-Gag laws (ag = agricultural) criminalize gathering proof of animal abuse in the only way available to build a case, and that is going under [...]

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