September Birthdays!

 

Raven

September 13

11 Years Old

Logan

September 20

4 Years Old

Toffee

September 26

8 Years Old

FDA Issues Important Warning - 12 Brands

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an important warning to Midwestern Pet Foods after inspections of its facilities revealed serious safety violations.

The company makes at least 12 dog and cat food brands at its plants.

 

The FDA found conditions at the company's facilities likely contributed to the illness or death of hundreds of dogs.

 

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FDA Issues Important Warning to Maker of 12 Dog Food Brands

National Dog Day - August 26th

 

It's National Dog Day!  Celebrate with your pooch.  Or find someone else's pooch who will share part of the day with you!

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Rainbow Bridge: Play

 

Play (Hot Play)

March 21, 2011 - August 19, 2021

Loved by Anthony & Karissa Nix of Corvallis, OR

Dog Food Recall Alert - Simply Nourish Dog Food

 

Approximately 51,000 packages of Simply Nourish Dog Food sold at PetSmart are being recalled due to elevated levels of vitamin D.

 

Excessive amounts of vitamin D in a dog's diet can lead to kidney failure and death. 

 

For full details, please visit the following link:

 

Simply Nourish Dog Food Recall

The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk...

Dog ownership is weird. You get to know another creature’s quirks and habits. You give them silly nicknames like “Boo Boo” or “Piggy.” You spend way too much time keeping tabs on their bathroom habits. You learn to understand each other, even though you don’t speak the same language.

But many dog owners are inclined to bridge that conversational gap, filling in the loaded silences with what they think — what they know — their dog is saying.

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Hot Weather Safety Tips

 

Summer is here and, with it, hot temperatures. To keep your greyhound safe and happy this summer, here are some guidelines when it comes to summer heat.

Hot temperatures are a danger to your greyhound. Because greyhounds do not have a lot of body fat and just one layer of fur, greyhounds lack the insulation to heat that other dogs have. An ideal air temperature for a greyhound is 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

To keep your grey safe and happy this summer, here are some guidelines when it comes to summer heat:

*NEVER EVER EVER LEAVE YOUR GREYHOUND IN YOUR CAR UNATTENDED!
Leaving car windows cracked open doesn’t work. Look at these temperature statistics:

10 mins in a car     Temp Outside 75 degrees     Inside Temp 100 degrees
5 mins in a car       Outside Temp 85 degrees     Inside Temp 100 degrees

*AIR CONDITIONING FOR YOUR GREYHOUND
During the hot weather, greyhounds need air conditioning. Remember, greyhounds’ ideal air temperature is 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Do not leave your greyhound in a hot house. If the power goes out, cool your greyhound (and yourself!) in a cool basement or in your car running the air conditioner. Better yet, find someone with power and air conditioning, and take your greyhound to their house.

*WATER
The more water the better. Always take water with you in the car, on your walks, for an outing. The water can be in a water bottle, in the form of ice in a thermos, in a squirt bottle to mist your greyhound. Go through a fast-food drive-thru and ask for a cup of ice with a little water for your dog. Most will be happy to give you this for free. Hydrate your greyhound – if s/he doesn’t want to drink, gently pour water into his/her mouth – a lot will spill out on the ground but some will get in to your greyhound.

*BANDANA
Take a bandana, small cloth towel, or a cool coat and wet it, then drape it over your greyhound. The cool, wet material acts like an evaporative cooling for your greyhound. Once the cool material gets warm, remove it immediately and re-wet it. Do not leave a warm cloth/towel on your greyhound, as it will trap the heat.

*WALKING
During the Summer, it is best to walk your greyhound in the early morning hours. The temperatures are cooler and so are the sidewalks/roads. Hose or wet your greyhound down before your walk. This will cool your dog and act like evaporation cooling. DO NOT walk your greyhounds during the heat of the day. Even early evenings are still hot, especially sidewalks and roads that have heated up during the day. The later in the evening you can walk your dog the better.

*OUTSIDE
Always supervise your greyhound when s/he is outside, regardless of time of year. Remember, your greyhound loves to run and play and will not stop just because s/he is overheating. It is your job to limit the amount of outside exercise your greyhound has during the summer.

*SHADE
When outside with your greyhound, seek out shade for both you and your greyhound. Also avoid letting your greyhound stand on sidewalks, concrete, asphalt – these material hold heat and your greyhound’s foot pads will easily burn.

*INSIDE
Always have the air conditioning on when your greyhound is inside. Remember, the ideal temperature range for a greyhound is 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. A greyhound can have a heat stroke at 80 degrees Fahrenheit when the humidity is high.

*HEAT EXHAUSTION/HEAT STROKE
Signs of heat exhaustion are heavy excessive panting, skin red/flushed/hot to touch, ear leathers red hot to touch, weakness in standing/walking, fainting.
IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NECESSARY – you must cool your greyhound down immediately. Apply cool water all over your greyhound. Wet towels in cool water and drape them all over your dog, especially the head, groin and armpit areas. The towels will become warm in 2-3 minutes, remove them, wet again with cool water and reapply. Running a fan at low speed over your greyhound with the cool damp towels draped on him/her is good too. Call your vet immediately with your greyhound’s status.

An Etiquette Question – How to Address Problems With Other Dog Owners

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I think we can all agree that allowing your dog to run up to other people, and especially people with leashed dogs, is incredibly rude and potentially dangerous. It can set back a training and counter-conditioning program of a dog whose own behavior with other dogs is reactive.  I know that my friend’s dog has been attacked and bitten by an off-leash dog before. So why on earth would she let her off-leash dog run up to other leashed dogs?

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From the Whole Dog Journal

Say you are in a grocery store with your best friend and her child, and you both see the child take something, perhaps a candy bar, and start eating it.  You look at your friend to see if she’s going to say anything to her child, but she just shrugs. Then you notice that another shopper has also seen this, and that person glares at you, as if to say, “Well, aren’t you going to do something about this?” You smile and shrug helplessly, and the best you can say is, “It’s not my kid!”

Well, that was me. But it was at a park where a bunch of dogs were playing off-leash, in spite of the signs ringing the park that indicated dogs were supposed to be on leash. I was walking with a friend and her dog toward the middle of the park, toward the swirl of off-leash dogs, and across a narrow zone of people walking their dogs ON-leash and across a busy bike path. Each time my friend’s dog ran right up to a leashed dog (and of course, the humans at the other end of the leash), I would look back at my friend, who always seemed to be doing something else – looking through her pockets, looking at her phone – I don’t know WHAT she was doing!

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