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The list of foods that can hurt your pet is longer than most owners realize, and the toxicity varies dramatically. Chocolate gets all the attention, but xylitol kills more dogs

The moment you wish you had read this is not the moment to start reading it. Pet first aid is one of those skills you build before you need it,

Cats are evolutionarily designed to hide illness. Their solitary-predator ancestors that showed weakness got picked off by larger predators or driven from their territory. The cats that hid pain and

If your cat has diabetes and you need to travel, you have a real decision to make: can a pet sitter manage your cat, or do you need a more

When you are home with your indoor cat, low-grade enrichment is built into daily life. You move around the house. You sit on the couch and they curl up next

It happens to almost every cat owner who has ever hired a sitter: you come home from your trip, the sitter sends one last note about how the cats were

When you have one cat, pet sitting is fairly straightforward. When you have two or more cats, it is a different job. The cats have politics among themselves, resource competition

A cat’s first decade is the easy decade. They eat, they play, they get into things, they sleep a lot. Owners enjoy them without much complication. Then the second decade

Cat ownership in Florida is different from dog ownership in ways most resources do not address. Cats hide illness in ways dogs do not. Florida’s parasite and plant hazards have

Florida’s year-round growing season means year-round lawn care. The chemicals that go on lawns – fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, mosquito sprays – all create potential pet exposure points. Most lawn service