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Greetings,
We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter. We want to provide you with helpful
information, so if there are any pet related topics you would like to see featured in
future newsletters, please let us know. Our email address is deecaruso@cox.net, and our
phone numbers are 877/877-0665 (toll-free voicemail), 760/758-7963, and 760/310-9149.
Best wishes, Bob, Deena, Moe, Larry & Curly
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The
Golden Years: How to Love a Geriatric Pet
Puppy Housebreaking 101 by Chrissie Cole
Question & Answer: Yeast Infections
Pet Tip: Shaving a Cat - Cat Coat Problems
Update on Flint River Ranch
Pet Joke: What Does the Frog Say?
Great Home Based Business for Pet Lovers
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101 by Chrissie Cole |
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 Many people are hesitant to get a new puppy out
of fear of the housebreaking process. While the puppy housebreaking process can be
consuming it doesn't have to be hard if you follow the tips we have outlined for you
below.
Housebreaking your puppy is best started when puppies are six-sixteen weeks in age.
When puppies are this young, they tend to go to the bathroom predictably and frequently.
The earlier you start the housebreaking process, the happier you will be as a new dog
owner!
The most important tip for successful puppy housebreaking is "Persistence is the
key".
1- First, you need to teach your puppy where you want him to go to the bathroom. Your
puppy will not know where to go if you don't show him. Therefore, he won't know if he went
in the wrong spot. We suggest starting the housebreaking process outside. Many people tend
to paper train and in essence you are making the training process harder for you and may
end up having to retrain him.
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| Question &
Answer: Yeast Infections |
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 Question:
Our two dogs seem to have a yeast infection. One has a pretty severe case with the
yeast in all the normal places - toes, neck, armpits, etc. Do you think we need to take
them to the vet or can we treat them at home?
Answer:
You can't treat a yeast infection at home, and skin problems are nothing to wait on.
Please go the vet as soon as possible as often times yeast infections are related to
something systemic (affecting the entire body).
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 For cat grooming and matting, it is best not to
shave a long haired cat or kitten unless the vet or groomer sees a need to do so. Cats
need their fur to protect their skin from the sun and other possible dangers. Since they
do not perspire, removing the hair doesn't help them to stay cool. On the contrary, it
could make them feel hotter since the sun will reach their skin.
It's best to brush your long haired cat for several minutes every day and do this
several times a day during the warm summer months. This will allow you to catch those
annoying mats when they are small enough that you can easily trim them out.
However, once the mats have formed tight enough to be next to your kitty's skin, let a
reputable- professional groomer or your vet remove the mats since you could seriously
injure your kitty if you try removing them yourself.
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| Update on Flint
River Ranch |
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 Flint River Ranch now has a corporate web site at
www.frrco.com. Customers who have already ordered at least once through an FRR distributor
such as Healthy Food For Pets may place orders there. However, we would recommend that
only customers who have high speed internet connections (cable or DSL) use this site for
orders at this time. The site is developed in Flash - and is very flashy - but also loads
very slowly for those who dial up via a telephone line. At this time we still recommend
placing orders on our website, www.healthyfoodforpets.com, or by phoning us at
877/877-0665, #4 (toll-free voice mail), 760/758- 7963 or 760/310-9149.
You may notice that the pages of our web site now publish a disclaimer saying we are
not the corporate site of Flint River Ranch. Flint River Ranch has required all
distributors to post very specific text on their sites. This is to alleviate the confusion
that some customers had about sites that looked "corporate" and have domains
such as flintriver.com or flintriverranch.com. These are just individual distributor
sites. (When one of our customers places an order through another distributor's site, we
do not receive credit for the order.)
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| Pet Joke: What Does
the Frog Say? |
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 A mother was reading a book about animals to her 3 year old daugher.
Mother: "What does the cow say?"
Child: "Moo!"
Mother: "Great! What does the cat say?"
Child: "Meow."
Mother: "Oh, you're so smart! What does the frog say?"
And this wide-eyed little 3 year-old looked up at her mother and in her deepest voice
replied... "Bud."
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| Great Home Based
Business for Pet Lovers |
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 Help provide all natural, healthy products to dogs and cats by offering pet
owners healthy solutions to common pet problems. You can help hundreds, even thousands of
animals' lives and earn a monthly residual income at the same time. You can work from
home, but with all of the support and training available, you won't work alone!
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Golden Years: How to Love a Geriatric Pet |
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pets. They love us unconditionally through all of our family expansions, strange
hair-dos and weight gains. We're quick to place them into the arms of strangers when we go
on extended trips, arrogant in our expectations of them to behave. They move with us from
one state to the next and never ask why. We, in turn, expect them to adjust without
questions. They buffer our irritable moods with sloppy face licks. They yearn secretly for
our arrival home in the form of neat meows. Pets are a reflection of the best parts of our
humanity. Eventually, it will come to pass ... the time in their lives that we're never
prepared to face. The first signs can be anything from a waning appetite to not coming
immediately when we call them. The signs are often subtle at first, so subtle that
we look the other way hoping that it's nothing major, that our pets are entitled to having
a bad week just like us. Then we notice that singular bad week stretching into a
string of bad weeks. We soon realize that what we thought was disobedience is in fact
hearing loss and the lack of grooming is not a manifestation of laziness, but just plain
weariness.
This article is dedicated to our senior dogs and cats, pets that have spent their
entire adult lives caring for us in their own special ways. Through early detection of
age-related problems and successful management of illnesses, it is now our turn to care
unconditionally for them so that they can age as painlessly as possible.
The Age Barometer:
Any creature, whether it is a cat, dog or human, attains geriatric status when 75% of
its life span has elapsed. Therefore, according to this equation, when a cat reaches 10-13
years of age, it has officially become a senior citizen of the cat world. However, not all
cats (or dogs for that matter) age at the same rate. A cat's biological age depends on its
breed, genetic background, the quality of diet and the overall quality of environment
throughout his or her life. Research suggests that old age for cats occurs
somewhere around the 8th or 9th birthday. The following is an overall guide that
veterinarians use to determine aging, regardless of genetics or environment.
Small Dogs (less than 20 pounds) 9-13
years
Medium Dogs (21-50 pounds) 9-11.5 years
Large Dogs (51-90 pounds) 7.5-10.5 years
Giant Dogs (over 90 pounds) 6-9 years
Cats (Most Breeds) 8-10 years
Early Detection
With that said, when our pets start getting close to a decade old, we need to start
raising our eyebrows in their direction and watching them a little more closely. The first
key to helping your pet age as gracefully as possible is early detection of any
abnormality. While many aging conditions are inevitable, caught early they can often be
slowed down or managed so that our beloved pets continue to be comfortable and happy.
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