Four for Friday: Pet Tips for Fall
- Cold, wet and drafty weather is hard on old joints.Provide your elderly, arthritic pets with a warm, dry place to get away from drafts this fall. Heated beds or pads are always a luxury for these old guys. Watch your pet for signs of pain – including slowing down, loss of appetite, and/or reluctance to climb stairs or rise from a down position. We have lots of options available for treating the pain of arthritis at Animal Care Clinic! Give us a call if you think your furry friend could use some relief.
- Your running partners should glow in the dark. Earlier nights means evening runners and walkers are often out in dark, drizzly weather. When traveling on the streets, it’s a good idea to not only wear reflective gear on your own body, but on your pets as well. Collars and harnesses are available with reflective tape woven into their weave.
- Make sure your pet is wearing identification on Halloween night. If your house gets a number of trick or treaters, consider putting your pet in a separate room away from the front door during peak trick-or-treating. The constant noise and strange sights and sounds can be stressful to many cats and dogs. Keep current tags on your pet in the event that he darts out the front door in the midst of the hubbub.
- Keep the treats to yourself. It’s the beginning of the holiday season. We all know that chocolate can be toxic to pets. But rich, fatty foods can be deadly as well. Poultry bones, bacon drippings, and all the normal ingredients for prepping standard holiday meals are yummy in our tummies – but bad news for pets. When you get the urge to splash the bacon grease on the kibble….think P.A.N.C.R.E.A.T.I.T.I.S, and don’t do it. We’ll talk about pancreatitis in detail next month – in the blog and in the November Paw Print.
