best pet insurance

The  best dog insurance will provide you with the most comprehensive coverage for your budget and your dog’s medical needs. Dogs and cats have different health issues and so what is good for one may not be good for the others. While there are some companies out there that do fairly decent for both animals, if you are only looking at having a dog then it is best that you find the absolute best pet insurance for dogs.

Since every company will claim to have the best pet insurance for dogs, you will have to be meticulous in your research. You need to be able to look beyond the fancy, colorful ads and make a decision based on customer service and terms of coverage. Start with asking your veterinarian for a referral to what he/she believes is the best pet insurance for dogs. Their suggestion may not be the best, but it’s a good place to start.

Where else can you look?

If you find that your vet is not able to help you find the best pet insurance for dogs, it is up to you to make sure that you are not getting ripped off. No one wants to find themselves in a position where they realize that they paid into a policy or company that does not provide what they promised. The best pet insurance for dogs with the policy that’s best for you can only be found through thorough research. If you do not follow through with good research into the various companies, you could end up wasting your money.

To gather a list of companies to investigate and to conduct a thorough investigation in any of them, all you need is the Internet. You will discover lots of good and bad information on those particular companies on the web. If you find a company with a long list of satisfied customers and many good reviews, you have found the best pet insurance for dogs. The best pet insurance for dogs can be easily found by reviewing the testimonials of past clients.

Your pet is a member of your family. Why risk their well being by being unprotected financially when they fall ill? As a loving owner it pays to do a little research into the available pet insurance plans available. Take a look at our Pets Best review for a good place to start.

By: Dr. Robert Sleeter

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Proper cat grooming helps to ensure that your pet remains free from ticks and fleas. This is also a good opportunity to check for any skin irregularities, injuries or bald patches. Here are some simple grooming tips that will help your cat look her best at all times.

To get the best results from your cat grooming endeavors you'll need to buy some cat grooming tools. Some of the items you're looking at are a brush, comb, scissors and grooming glove, all of which should be made specifically for this purpose.

When brushing your cat’s hair, use a brush that has lots of tiny pins. The head should be relatively small so that brushing goes more easily. Proper grooming requires that you brush your cat in the direction that her hair grows. If you don't, you may end up with a very angry kitty.

Bathing your cat is another important aspect of good grooming. To make the job easier, bathe her while in a carrier and use a towel to keep her as calm as possible. Choose a shampoo formulated for cats that will lather well. The shampoo should also be effective at relieving dryness and flaking on your cat's skin.

An important aspect of cat grooming involves ensuring that your cat’s hair doesn't become matted and tangled. If you own a long haired cat, you must trim it on a regular basis. This means using a good set of scissors and a comb that are specifically designed for cat grooming. Use caution so you don't prick or scratch the skin that lies at the base of your cat's coat.

The use of cat grooming gloves will help to reduce shedding. They also make brushing easier and gentler. Look for a pair that is machine washable. Usually, you can also use these gloves to clean up cat hair from your carpet and furniture.

Pet grooming tools can actually be a source of pleasure for your cat if you use them properly. There's no doubt that with the proper tools, your cat will avoid bad hair days and appear sleek and well groomed.

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Bladder Stones In Cats

A bladder stone, or urolith, is made up from minerals present in your cat's urine.  These minerals sometimes form crystals that stick together to form a stone in your cat's bladder.Bladder stones can vary in size, from grains of sand to small pebbles. 

Your feline friend may have only one stone, or he could have several dozen. 

Why do the minerals form crystals?  There are several theories.  Your cat's urine may be high in minerals due to his diet, or it may be because he has an infection in his bladder.

Bladder stones usually take several months to form, but they can grow in just a couple of weeks.

Symptoms Of Cat Urinary Problems

If your cat suddenly starts urinating in places other than his litter box, this can indicate that he's having a urinary problem.He may lick his bottom a lot more often than is normal for him. 

Blood in the urine is another symptom to watch for.  It can sometimes be hard to see this in cats as they usually go in the litter box.  But if he's urinating outside his box, you may see it.

If your cat is straining to urinate, or can't pass any urine, this indicates a blockage.  A urinary blockage is a veterinary emergency, and you need to get your cat to the vet as soon as possible.

Treatment For Cat Bladder Stones

In order to diagnose bladder stones, your vet will need to take x-rays or do an ultrasound.  Once they are diagnosed, you vet will probably outline two treatment options.

Your vet may want to do an operation to get the stones out of your cat's bladder.This is the fastest way to solve your cat's problem. 

The second is to try to dissolve the stones with a special diet.Depending on how mild or severe the problem is, this may be a good option for your cat.  However, it may not work well for all felines.  The major reason is that it's a slower treatment.  It can take several weeks or months for the stones to dissolve.  During this time your cat will still be passing bloody urine, and may still be straining to urinate.

Diet therapy doesn't work with all stones.  It's helpful if the cat passes a stone so that you vet can analyze it to see what it's made of.  Some types of stones can't be dissolved.

Some cats won't eat the special diet food.The downside is that unless this special diet is the only thing your kitty is eating, it won't do any good.

Are Herbal Pet Remedies The Answer To Cat Bladder Stones?

Many cat owners are turning to herbal pet remedies to help solve cat urinary problems.  These herbal and homeopathic remedies have been used by people across the world for centuries.Instead of just treating the symptoms, natural remedies help to correct the underlying problem. 

It's very important to buy these herbal pet remedies only from reputable companies that specialize in producing them.  Do your homework and be sure that the company stands behind its products.  You want to be sure that you find remedies especially formulated for pets.

These natural remedies are inexpensive and readily available.These time-honored remedies have no side effects for your to worry about. 

Now that you have this information, you can take action to prevent cat urinary problems.

Darlene Norris has combined her long-time interest in natural healing with her experience working at a vet clinic to bring you her new website, Natural Pet Urinary Health.  Discover how herbal and homeopathic remedies can help treat cat bladder stones, and find the best place to buy these remedies at http://naturalpeturinaryhealth.com

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Dog Separation Anxiety

Separation anxiety for canines can be quite a troubling problem. Canines are quite social animals and depend greatly on the idea of a pack for their social relationships. As pet owners, humans become the head dogs in the pack and are in charge. However in our busy world, the pack heads wander off and leave the dogs alone by themselves for long times of the day. Pet separation anxiety shows up by means of some well apparent and increasingly traumatic symptoms. Initially with barking, over-salivating, and hyperventilation, it may quickly grow into further stages of inappropriate defecation and / or urination, destroying furniture, and attempting to escape so as to locate the pack on their own. This will of course fail and lead to significantly more strain on the poor animal.

Obsessive Compulsive Grooming Disorder

Issues of anxiety for cats are not at all the same as dogs. Felines are more independent of their owners, though social relationship issues often still arise. Felines can be quite territorial and aggressive, so felines may have problems both when moving from a familiar home to a new, unfamiliar place, or anxiousness because of aggressive cats either in the neighborhood or the house. Cat anxiety may be seen in obsessive compulsive grooming behaviors, where the cat cleans themselves so much and actually go so far as to remove patches of their fur!

Clomipramine

Clomipramine is a promising solution to just these types of issues. In a similar fashion to people and their anxiety disorders, animals are now able to be treated with medicines for the very types of conditions. In a nutshell, this is pet prozac. Medications like Clomipramine are designed to help take the edge off of your pet’s stress, allowing you time and breathing space to resolve the specific underlying concerns. Clomipramine side effects can include drowsiness, vertigo, dehydration, weakness, constipation and loss of appetite, so you will want to ensure your pet gets lots of water and you watch them closely for a while. They clearly can’t tell you in words if they’re not feeling well. Clomipramine canine are happy and healthy friends!

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How Does Feliway for Cats Work?

Feliway Spray is is constructed from the feline Pheromones augmented by an ethanol compound. These exact same facial pheromones are used constantly by all cats to claim their territory. Other animals in the area can tell such pheromones from a distance and be aware of claimed territory. Felines prefer not to pee to mark territory when it's already been sprayed, so this will reduce inappropriate urination. Cats place these pheromones onto objects by rubbing their face or foot pads across them. If you've ever had your cat rub their face on you, now you know specifically what was really happening. When people say their moggies own them, that's exactly the case. Feliway in a nutshell duplicates this effect.

What Will Feliway Fix?

• Peeing not appropriately in the litter box
• Spray marking of territory by non-spayed/neutered pets
• Helps calm those who are stressed out
• Can stop incessant squabbling
• Helping bring in cats to new places

Common view by relieved users on the net are that it's a great product. Keep in mind however that these spraying problems can result from disease, so you know that Feliway for cats isn't necessarily an end-all though it will eliminate the symptoms. Cats can behave strangely that we may not understand how to accept, but it's a sure bet that Feliway will help.

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Lilly's New Meds (clomipramine) Arrive

After last week's drama, I'm happy to report that Lilly's new medicine (clomipramine), the one the animal behaviorist recommended, arrived Friday (7/18) from 1-800-PetMeds, just 2 days after the order was shipped. ...

I guess sometimes it can be difficult to get your vet moving on a prescription for Clomipramine / Clomicalm.  She relates how it took quite a few calls and there were miscues related to the fact that there are many different varieties of Clomipramine on the market and that vets are not always familiar with it or may be under rules restricting it.

Of other interest, she gives some reccomendations for finding pet behaviorists that can help you.  That's not necessarily easy information to find and hopefully will turn out to be of good use to you.  See the link for details.

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Stella and Clomicalm - follow up

About four weeks ago we had a follow up on how the Clomicalm was working, and to complete her annual exam including vaccination boosters. Dr. David sat on the floor not moving, other than holding out a hand for Stella to investigate. ...

He had a working cattle dog who had separation anxiety issues and was being destructive.  While Clomicalm helps resolve the anxiety issue symptoms, you still need to work on training and behavior modification to completely resolve the problem.  In his case, a training and obedience course helped eliminate the destructive behavior.  He realizes he needs to keep the dog worked and exercise, and provide the company of the pack that the dog needs.  More power to him!

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Laxatone

When I went to the vet for Clyde the vet gave us anitibiotics and also some Tuna flavored Laxatone. He seems to like the Laxatone A LOT but maybe a little too much. Whenever I go to the kitchen and stand by the sink he comes up to me ...

Since not all cats like to take medicine -- ok, who am I trying to kid? As many cats do not like to take medicine, you have useful remedies like Laxatone tuna flavor that are designed to be more appealing to cats.  Some cats may end up with a real taste for the stuff.  That can be encouraging, as when you need them to take it for their own good, you certainly don't want to end up in a fight over it.  The flip side of this equation is too good smelling and tasting stuff could end up being seen as a treat and not as a treatment.  Even though Laxatone works well for hairball prevention, when used in that role you only need to give a dose or two a week to keep the problems at bay.  If you give too much more when there is no active hairball in need of removal, well, you could have a messy problem on your hands, or maybe your floor and walls, that needs resolved in stead.  Moderation in all things folks, and always follow the directions on any medicine you, your cats, or other members of you family may take.  They are there for a reason.

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Clomicalm

Does anyone on the forum have any experience with using Clomicalm on their dog? I have a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who has been on Clomicalm for just over a year now, and I'm not sure if I should expect he will be on it forever. ...

The follow up poster rightly pointed out that Clomicalm is not in fact a be all, end all solution.  It makes the symptoms of the problem easier to deal with.  You have to work on behavior modification and changing or resolving the problem in the first place.  Maybe you shouldn't leave the pets alone for so long.  I remember being amazed at my ex-mother-in-law, who professed to love dogs, but would go off working all day, go out all night, take trips, and leave the poor dogs all by themselves.  They didn't use Clomicalm for dogs, but did have problems with them being somewhat destructive.  Eventually she started crating them instead.  Oh, that was unbelievably sad.

Bottom line, the owner has to make some changes just the same as a dog does.  Looking for a magic pill which will eliminate any necessity of effort is just an unfulfillable panacea.

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cleaning petromalt on fur

hmmm.... so i was feeding koko petromalt last night and he actually picked up the whole piece but koko dropped it.... right on totoro's fur on the bottom! :pullhair: i removed as much of the petromalt from totoro's fur and tried to get ...

I knew the Petromalt's main benefactor are cats, and Petromalt for rabbits is also a well known usage, but it really did not occur to me about how many other animals it can be beneficial for. I looked up Chinchilla on Wikipedia and found it is a rodent that some people keep as pets. I was thinking some kind of weasel, personally.

Chinchilla

Anyway, enough about Chinchillas, even though they have a pretty cool name.  I'm not sure how they behave, but for cats, putting Petromalt hairball remedy on their paws or fur works well, because they will clean themselves off, thus ingesting the Petromalt.  Maybe Chinchillas aren't that graceful, or clean.  Not sure.

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