Hairless Cats and Dogs

Naturally hairless cats and dogs are a rare and, to some, unsettling sight. Wrinkled and bald they look like extraterrestrials set adrift on an alien and inhospitable planet. These unusual animals are so vulnerable to extremes of temperature and excess sunshine that hairless cats are almost always kept indoors and hairless dogs are usually only [...]

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Should you be Growing a Lawn?

It is one of those oddities in life that well fed cats and dogs from loving caring homes, when given the opportunity, will go outside and act like a four-legged version of a lawnmower. No one really knows why cats and dogs eat grass or whether there is a physical need that drives them to [...]

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Pethealth Inc. Launches PetPoint Lite™

Pethealth Inc. today announced the launch of the PetPoint Lite™ animal management system designed specifically for the needs of Animal Rescue Organizations. PetPoint Lite will be available free of charge to these organizations across the U.S. and Canada, in early June.
PetPoint Lite is a streamlined version of PetPoint®, the most advanced web-based animal management application [...]

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ShelterCare Pet Insurance Program to be Expanded!

North America’s #1 Pet Insurance Program for Adopted Dogs and Cats to Offer Four New Enhancements
Pethealth, owner of ShelterCare® Pet Insurance Program for newly adopted pets, is pleased to announce it has added four new enhancements to its industry-leading pet insurance program designed for those pet parents who choose to adopt their new dog or [...]

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Light fur with tear stains – advising adopters that “looks can be deceiving”

One of the frustrations for workers in the animal welfare community is that “looks can be deceiving” and in many cases an animal with a wonderful nature is overlooked by potential adopters due to his or her looks.  One of the issues that is off-putting but should not be is that of reddish brown tear [...]

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Overcoming Preconceptions about Indoor Cats

The question for pet parents over whether to allow their cats outdoors or to keep them indoors is one which elicits a barrage of responses from proponents on both sides of the debate.
The HSUS and most members of the animal welfare community are unequivocally in favor of keeping cats indoors, in addition two out of [...]

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Spring is Here – Wildlife Beware

Spring has officially sprung, although for those of us who live in the North the validity of that statement remains debatable! However, irrespective of whether you live in the snowy north or the balmy south, the evidence around us that spring is here is unmistakable – the wild animals and the birds know, and they [...]

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Caring for Blind Cats and Dogs

The animal welfare community has to deal with many highly charged and emotional situations during the course of their everyday working lives and one that is particularly hard on humans and animals alike is the intake of blind animals.
While blind cats and dogs can live happy and fulfilling lives as part of a family in [...]

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Here’s Your Chance to Win a Holiday Gift!

As 2007 draws to a close we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers of the Pethealth Post. We hope that you have found our weekly Posts thought provoking and informative and we look forward to providing you with more topics of interest in 2008. This week, however, we would [...]

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Planning for the Worst

By now, we have all seen or heard about the wild fires that have been burning out of control in Southern California. In all, the fires have spread across 490,000 acres — or 765 square miles, fanned by Santa Ana winds that produced gusts topping 100 mph. The magnitude of this event is staggering and [...]

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