Happy Easter: From One Dog to Another!

Well, Parental Unit adds her two cents! Happy Easter to all of our blogging friends who are celebrating today!

             Cool photo of me by RachelLaurenPhotography.com

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Easy Like Sunday..."Living with Your Pet" Tips

Photo courtesy of FoundAnimals.org

On this sunny Easter Sunday, we thought we'd bring you some tips to keep your cats happy and healthy, from a veterinarian who writes for Found Animals, that wonderful organization that promotes the rescue and care of companion dogs and cats. Dr. Mark (whose last name we can't find anywhere!), is a veterinarian who writes for the Found Animals Blog, The Water Bowl. In this post, he describes these "five essentials" to properly caring for your sweet, playful kitty. We particularly like the last one that favors cat "enrichment" toys- all cats have natural instincts that can be depressed if they live indoors-so the thoughtful owner of felines should provide enrichment toys or activities so their pets can actually use their instincts, at least to some degree. One example are toys that simulate the hunt for food, which indoor cats don't normally exercise...unless the indoors has lots of bugs or mice!

                 Here's Bella using her natural instincts...

        We hope you all have a Happy Easter and Passover!

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Happy Earth Day!

We hope you're all doing something special today to commemorate this Earth Day 2011. Because this year, Earth Day also falls on Good Friday and overlaps with Passover, so many of us will be busy with other activities, and it will be easy to forget to commemorate this important day. To complicate things, it's pouring rain in our neck of the woods, so we'll have to get creative for any outdoor festivities!

But we thought everyone might have time to read these Earth Day tips from our friends at DogTime Media, aptly titled: The Top Ten Ways to Reduce Your Dogs Carbon Pawprint. They're excellent ways for us dogs (and our human companions) to practice going "greener" with our lifestyles.
Enjoy them here! www.dogtime.com/top-10-ways-reduce-dogs-carbon-paw-print-earth-day-2011.html

We thought you'd also like these celebration ideas from the good folks at The Nature Conservancy: earthday.nature.org/?autologin=true. This year's celebration theme is "Picnic for the Planet"!

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