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A Registered Microchip Helps, But Doesn’t Solve Everything
I heard a crazy story recently: My son’s neighbors lost their cat. It was an indoor/outdoor cat and just went missing; one imagines the worst. A few weeks later, the owners get a call from a veterinarian in a town about 30 miles away. The vet’s office representative asked, “Are you missing a cat?” They…
Read MoreHairballs – A Healthy or Hairy Situation?
Horrendous hacking in the next room goes unchecked as your cats spits up yet another hairball. You’ve almost learned to tune it out but the aggressive offending nature of the sound and sight is still too much to completely ignore. That’s good – you shouldn’t ignore it! Contrary to what many cat owners and even…
Read MoreSisyphean Housecleaning With Dogs
My stepdaughter and her son are coming to town for a visit. Hurray for vaccinations! They live in New Jersey, and haven’t been to this coast since her son was a newborn, five years ago. We moved into a “new” house three years ago, and they haven’t seen it yet! So my husband and I…
Read MoreApril Specials – Farmina, Earth Animal, Primal, Tucker’s, & many more!
April showers bring.. GREAT DEALS! Stop into either Brookside Barkery location this month and save on treats, kibble, freeze-dried, frozen, canned food, and so much more through the end of April! Earth Animal – FREE Herbal Flea & Tick collar or Spot-On with purchase of Daily Internal Powder or Drops. Discount available in-store or online-…
Read MorePost-Fostering Paranoia
It’s a funny thing: No matter how badly I want to place a foster dog or foster puppy, no matter how much time and money and trouble they have caused me, the minute they leave to join a new household, the worrying starts. For the past month, I’ve been fostering a goofy little mixed breed…
Read MoreRecall Notice – Earthborn Holistic & Earthborn Venture
An important note to Barkery customers regarding the Earthborn pet food recall: Midwestern Pet Foods has announced a voluntary recall due to possible salmonella health risk on a selection of their products produced in their Monmouth, IL facility, including certain dry dog and cat food formulas from Earthborn Holistic and Earthborn Venture. Please review this…
Read MoreEmerging Variants of Coronavirus May Affect Pets More Severely
Just over a year ago, the first article I ever had to write that mentioned COVID-19 was published in this space. It seems like forever ago, but at the time, dog owners everywhere were panicking at the news that COVID had been found in the pet dog belonging to a human COVID patient in Hong…
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