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More and more frequent surgical procedures in pets for the healing of various ailments and, as is the case of humans, you must have a pool of blood for transfusions required for them. Blood also is not only necessary for those interventions, but also to help severely injured animals that need a transfusion, suffer bleeding problems, bone marrow disease or suffer from anemia.

These reserves are not always met, but pet owners can prevent this from happening, and that pets, like us, can also be blood donors. Blood donors can all dogs and cats that are in good health and have not suffered serious illnesses.

The only requirement to be met is that if it is a dog must weigh over 25 kilos, and if a cat over 4 kilos, as this ensures that the animal can donate without any problems.

However, to ensure that the animal is fit to be a donor before the donation is performed analytically, to check their health status. Thus, the donation is also a benefit to the animal, since this analytic will help us to detect any pathology.

The blood collection process takes about thirty minutes and not painful for the animal. As in the case of humans, only a small part is extracted from the blood, which is recovered as soon as the animal eat some food. If we return to donate blood for our pet, we have to wait two months since the last extraction.

Canaries like humans and other species, have very clear what is their territory and if you find that they can react in different ways to lose among which includes violence. Do not think that the canaries are hermits or enjoy the solitude, on the contrary, well-adjusted in their environment they love to live in colonies, they are friendly, co-workers and have a good character.

Ideally who decides on the canaries as pets, must have time or allocate a percentage of their time caring for them. This not only means keeping the environment clean but also look after their health at all levels including the psychological. Although you can get used to solitude for some time, if you choose a pet canary should be thinking about how healthy they will always have two.

A pair of canaries is a good choice because it can be fitted perfectly to live in harmony and if you are male and female family ‘ll increase fairly soon. Loneliness can make these animals end up sick and saddened. Either you go to the extreme, keeping many canaries in the same cage together can make these with very little space and can not move at ease, implying again that insane sadness.

If your cage allows, it is best to keep an average of 5 per cage canaries and that it has everything required for that amount of animals, the canary otherwise affected by the crowd.

Most of us already know the benefits that essential oils have on our body, helping to revitalize or relax as needed. But not just us who can enjoy them as our pets, especially dogs, can also benefit from the effects oils have on your body.

In animals as well, aromatherapy can be much more effective than in humans, because its smell is much stronger than ours.

One of the most common applications is given in cases of irritated and nervous dogs, that will not stop barking or feel stressed, either by changes in the family, at home, by the arrival of a baby or other animal … if we fail to calm the animal, we can use essential oils. They have also proved effective when it comes to animals who feel fear in any situation, and who have felt more at ease with this therapy.

You can also treat other ailments such as dizziness, rashes and skin infections, bad odor, bad breath or to prevent fleas and ticks are installed on your partner.

Before you opt for this therapy, we take our pet to the vet to rule out physical illness as the cause of the condition of the animal. Read the rest of this entry »

If we have opportunity, the best is always a vacation in our pets. However, this is not always possible, so we have to find a friend or family member to care for them. If neither is available, we must find a residence where a pet is our care until we return.

This is something I do not like to pet owners, especially if it’s the first time. The possibility that your dog or cat to pass bad or not well maintained is a concern. However, all these fears disappear if we choose the best home for our partner.

The first thing we do is ask family and friends if they know any residence, as having a direct reference is always a guarantee. If you do not know any, it is best to visit various sites to find one that will convince us.

Once we get there is important to observe closely the look and attitude of animals and plants in your dog or cat will spend their holidays. Read the rest of this entry »

The owners of animals that we know the difficulties that can sometimes ask to travel with your pet, especially when looking for hotels that support animals. This is a situation that probably has given you several times, so in this article we will help you a bit by offering some alternative hotels that allow animals in which we can safely spend the night together with our pet.

Luckily, perhaps far from what may seem, in Spain we can find a lot of hotels that allow animals, perhaps the most difficult is to find, since this circumstance is not informed, even in many cases, owners establishments. In this sense, the Internet becomes, once again, an excellent tool to find hotels that allow pets, there inlcuso seekers hotels for dogs who provide us with the task.

Below you will find a list of links that will provide useful information about hotels pets, in some cases find cheap hotels where you can stay with your pet and other prices will be slightly higher for this very reason. In any case it would be a small financial effort well worth it.

Pets are loved learning from an early age and need to start your training, just as in humans learning begins in the family, in this case within the litter and the mother is responsible for supplying the first knowledge to survive.

In such lessons must be added the effort of the puppy owners to learn habits and good habits, such as: where is the bathroom, what times are meals, playtime, how to behave when removed to walk or how to deal with a stranger, among other things.

Are very common now reports that a dog attacks a person, this type of behavior are generated because of an early separation from the mother, since she is the first to teach the concepts of bite inhibition, so it is important that the puppy remains in the litter at least 8 weeks after birth.

All dogs have the need to bite, usually for a position in the pack, is a normal behavior that is present from birth, at which time is viewed as games between brothers and the mother who is responsible for intervening when these games Tone up, sometimes by a grunt or a small flash of teeth, an action that should not be interpreted as aggressive. It’s like when you scold a child in a high pitch for making mischief.

If the puppy has been with his mother the time we, as owners, we must not neglect the training must continue. For example, some measures we take are:

Do not allow the dog to bite us or fingers of it, in case you do have to stop play and nagging. You have to understand that if we let the puppy bite us we’ll be saying that he is a level above us in the pack and lose their respect.

Do not we go so far as to punish him because he can interpret it as a game, in this case must be on the lookout for children who do not understand dog behavior and continue the game despite the attitudes of dog bite. In these situations it is preferable to stop play and give a toy dog.

Another point is to let our dog interact with other dogs.

Also need to advise on the breed and its characteristics, remember that just as people do not all dogs are alike, each race has distinct personality traits.

And has been the heat and the beaches are a temptation, but a family member who is not so easy to enjoy the sun and water. First you have to go find out what beaches allow pets, to schedule and all existing. Some beaches do not permit.

In other beaches you can take your pets if they are tied at all times. When you have found a beach that can compete with the dogs, think that just as the sun affects people, it also affects them.

The first is to visit the vet, to advise that special care should be taken with that dog. We must protect them from sun, sunscreen, and sunglasses for dogs. Also umbrella, a mat, that is not directly on the hot sand, often with unpleasant things.

For the dogs they should put anti- flea collar to go to the beach, as many times in the arena there are many fleas. This collar can not get wet, because wet has no effect. The dog should have fresh water available to them, stay well hydrated, do not drink salt water.

A pet must be cared for as a child care because they can hurt a can, a glass or a hook that can be hidden in the sand. On the beach, the hijackers never missing pets, both for ransom, or to sell them later.

Animals, like humans, suffer a lot with some particular aspects of nature. Sunlight can be extremely harmful to any pet if you get excessively. For this reason it is recommended to take certain precautions to keep the animals safe and sound.

Skin cancer is one of many health problems who may have dogs, cats and other animals. This disease is present in pets that have a white coat (especially in the area of ​​the nose and ears) and is caused by extreme exposure to UV rays.

Experts recommend taking the necessary steps to maintain the health status of pets. If you have dogs, cats or other animals in white and want to protect from the sun must be placed sunscreen and not leave them outdoors from noon to 4 pm.

Our pets are an important part of the family that we often forget that they are not human and that there are actions that can bother you or cause discomfort, such as the use of dog clothing.

Depending on the breed, size and behavior, which varies the possibility of dressing up our pets and it is important to remember that:

- If it is cold there is no problem with putting on clothes, especially when a puppy because it is more sensitive to viral diseases. Similarly if an adult dog.

- If the dog has a tendency to stress the use of clothing can boost you feel stressed.

- It is not advisable to dress if you have fleas because the heat will give the clothing will help the development of parasites.

Do not be adding clothing to the pet if you have a wound because if we cover this will cause delay in healing and infection.

During the summer we take care of our skin, to avoid spending many hours in the sunshine and hydrate properly, but, what happens to our pets? What requires a pet care in the summer?

Among the main summer in pet care are:
- Avoid exposing to the rays of the sun between the hours between noon and three in the afternoon.

- Avoid hot floors to protect areas of the hind legs, especially in hairless dogs it can cause chemical burns.

- While we can not enter the pools or public beaches with our mascot, if we carry while avoiding contact with water. It is important to rinse your pet with fresh water when finished the day at the beach.

- Finally, avoid any contact with extreme temperatures as pets can suffer stress, and even dizziness.