Sentences with phrase «cats as pets»

Dr. Paul Maza, faculty member and consultant for the Cornell Feline Health Center, is also the director of a small group called FARVets (Feral, Abandoned, and Rescued animals) that assists animal welfare organizations abroad, in their missions to treat feline diseases and tackle overpopulation issues that may lead to abandonment of cats, inability to care for cats as pets, and feral cat populations.

As many of you know, my experience before joining PIJAC was primarily focused on dogs and cats as pets, but I continue to learn more each day about the broader world of companion animals.

If you keep cats as pets (or they keep you), you're probably all too familiar with the problem of cats scratching furniture, carpeting, draperies, wallpaper, rugs and just about anything else they can get their claws into.

I have cats as pets for most of my adult life.

Caring for feralized cats as pets is not unlike owning a wild cat from Africa, but you are free to do this.

«We found that people who do not own cats have a 40 % higher risk of dying from a myocardial infarction (MI) than people who do keep cats as pets,» said Adnan Qureshi, M.D., of the Minnesota Stroke Institute in Minneapolis, told attendees at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.

Nearly half (49.2 %) of all cat owners consider their cat to be a family member; 49.4 % consider cats as pets or companions.

But there are more cats as pets in the U.S. than dogs, and many homes have multiple cats.

I have had both dogs and cats as pets in my lifetime and I have to say, cats are much cuter in pictures than dogs.

This will include, but is not limited to, experiences with feral cats as pets, care of feral cat colonies, and ways of controlling and helping feral cats.

Still, cat owners know that the worst part of having cats as pets is dealing with the litter box.

He is married to a Veterinarian and has 2 rescued dogs and cats as pets.

Animals Asia has a number of programs to reduce this practice and to encourage people to regard dogs and cats as pets and companions.

A responsible Trap, Neuter, Return program is the best way to control the feral cat explosion, but this blog post is for the people who have cats as pets.

To have, care for, and facilitate the placement of stray, homeless, and unwanted dogs and cats as pets in suitable homes: to establish procedures and facilities which promote the health, care and placement of stray dogs and cats, and which prevent cruelty, and alleviate pain and suffering and, in addition, to teach and promote the education of the citizens of Massachusetts in conjunction with the care of dogs and of other pets.

Los Angeles cat lovers are celebrating as the L.A. City Council directed city attorneys to draft an ordinance making it legal to own up to 5 cats as pets in one home.

Cats as pets have always been appreciated for the contact, relatively low maintenance, and pedomorphic (child - like) face and general morphology.»

We don't have cats as pets, therefore to my dogs cats are not their friends.

It angered many cat lovers, who commented on the post with displeasure at the unfairness shown to cats as pets.

A new study has found that having a dog or cat as a pet at home during the first year of life may actually help prevent allergies later on in life.

Nevermind the expense, the veterinary care, and the fact that no one should try to keep a big cat as a pet, these are highly dangerous animals and should only be cared for by experts.

This is a good explaination of what to look for as well as how to treat cats upset stomach with home remedy, I grew up with a cat as a pet and I remember how sweet they are and loving, hate to see them sick.

But, whether you want to show your cat, or just have a house cat as a pet, trust your gut.

We feel strongly that testing is very important whenever one obtains a new cat as a pet.

But only 30 % of the population has a cat as a pet!

Litter box odor is the most difficult aspect of having a cat as a pet.

Let's use a real world example: Let's say you're one of the 38,900,000 households who have a cat as a pet.

So, if you have a dog or a cat as a pet, you have at least some pet - proofing to do.

Cat lovers living in HDB flats will be allowed to keep a cat as a pet under a two - year pilot scheme that covers about 120 blocks in Chong Pang.

However, if you are diagnosed with medical allergic to cats, having a cat as a pet might not be the best way to go.

On a personal level, if you choose to keep a cat as a pet, along with that comes the burden of cat care.

I had a feral cat as a pet when I was a kid, after a few hours and my dad's packed lunch of corned beef sandwiches she was letting me pet her, so I'm assuming she used to be a pet.

Not exact matches

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Besides dogs, DogVacay provides sitters for cats, as well as less common house pets such as chinchillas, ferrets, and even chickens.

For example, as a pet store, it's not dog food, cat nip, or fish pellets your audience is looking for.

Cat - petting sessions can be reserved via the startup's website for as little as a half - hour to up to five hours (for $ 6 per hour, plus tax).

IN RESPONSE TO PET DEATHS, UNITED AIRLINES IS BANNING A BUNCH OF POPULAR DOG AND CAT BREEDS FROM FLYING Mastiffs, Pekingese, shih - tzus, several bulldog breeds, as well as Burmese and Persian cats, all got the boot.

An amendment added to a farm bill that was approved by the House Agriculture Committee would bar people from «knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption,» as well as transporting or participating in other commercial activity related to eating pet meat.

But the Coens do their best to keep the puzzle and possibility open, as we later learn that the first cat Davis lost miraculously made its way from Greenwich Village back uptown to Washington Heights, and at one point Davis's eye fixes on a poster for Disney's INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, the one where pets find their way home across hundreds of miles of wilderness.

As a cat lover I must protest that we cat owners clean up after our pets so there is generally no stink, and not all of us pray to any deity.

Or that cats are better than dogs as pets.

And our country's pet owners for the most part are horrible, with most dogs never leaving the backyard and 6 - 8M dogs / cats put down a year as shelters are full.

We run on donations, and Linda goes to local animal shelters to take in cats whose due dates are coming up, as well as strays, and pets of deployed military personnel, so that they'll have someone to look after their pets while they're off overseas.

The Happy Hippies of Hippie Butter currently live on five acres of gorgeous, Texas countryside and share their acreage with pet chickens, guinea fowl, cats: Mingus, Ghost, Hildegard and Butters, as well as Rotties: Lola and Bubbles.

It made me so sad to read, as I can completely relate to the heart - wrenching experience of losing an ailing cat that was more like my little girl than a mere pet (our kitty had just hit her 16th birthday when she died of kidney failure - that we'd been working hard to treat - and hyperthyroidism).

I think it is fair to say he was the most - loved cat in the neighborhood and would greet passing joggers, walkers, and other pets with perked ears, a fluffy tail, and a desire to act as a personal escort from one edge of the property to the mailbox on the other side.

Dogs and cats can become addicted to harmful additives such as preservatives in conventional pet foods, setting up a cascade of fussiness, brand exclusivity and deteriorating health.

I'm piping in as a veterinary tech who worked in the overcrowded shelters you assholes so sanctimoniously dumped your pets at, and as a mother who also lives with 3 cats, a Great Dane and a Bullmastiff (2 GIANT dogs).

The cats were NOT my idea but my, at the time, roommate desperately wanted cats and I do love cats so I said that even though I thought it was a bad idea getting pets as a 21 year old college student in an apartment if she wanted to get a cat I wouldn't mind.

My parents were TERRIBLE pet owners, and I was left to care for 2 cats and 3 dogs as an 11 year - old child.