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Pet Care Advice and Tips
Make sure that your pets are getting the nutrition they need to stay healthy by feeding them quality pet foods. Many of the pet food brands that you’ll find at the local grocery store are manufactured to standards much lower that for human grade foods. They often add fillers and nasty chemicals to the foods which could be detrimental to your pets long term health. Harmful fillers and chemicals include (Don’t buy any foods where you see these chemicals) : By-products – can include any part of any animal that is not fit for human consumption Dried Beet Pulp – no nutritional value ingredient added to create firm stools Menadione – synthetic and cheap version of vitamin K3 that can cause liver and kidney damage Ethoxyquin – artificial preservative Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) – artificial preservative Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) – artificial preservative Soy – inferior protein that is difficult for pets to digest Hulls – waste part of grain Animal Fat – with no identification it could be any type of animal source Appetite Stimulant – chemicals sprayed or mixed with foods Dogs and cats require high quality protein, fat, fiber, water and easily absorbed vitamins, minerals and antioxidants for optimal health. Make sure your pets food is fresh and has not been sitting on a shelf more than 6 months. Keep dry pet food away from air, moisture, and light...
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Pet Care Advice and Tips
Don't I Look Happy! Over the next week I’m going to be writing a series of posts that give you some tips to keep your pets healthy so that they can live a long happy life with your family. Healthier pets look younger, have shiny healthy coats, are a healthy body weight, and are alert and full of energy. Keeping your pets healthy by feeding them a high quality diet and getting them plenty of exercise will keep their immune system in tip top shape, help prevent disease, and keep you out of the vets office. As part of the series I’ll be discussing: 1) Quality Nutrition and Recommendations for choosing your pet foods 2) Importance of Clean Fresh Water 3) Role of Supplements 4) Exercise, Training, and Socialization 5) Grooming Problems associated with poor nutrition and lifestyle are seen every day in vets offices around the world. These include weight gain, increased risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, skin and coat problems, hip dysplasia, and allergies. Stay tuned for tips coming this week and keep your pet healthy and happy!
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Community Suppport, News and Current Events, Pet Care Advice and Tips
One of our highest priorities at Protecting Max is the health and wellbeing of the pets in our care. We love providing the DFW community pet lovers with pet first aid classes and have just added 3 more dates to our 2012 schedule. Each of these classes is 4 hours and covers pet first aid and CPR training. In the class we do hands on practice of muzzling, bandaging, pet CPR, rescue breathing, choking, and patient assessment skills. We also cover heat and cold injuries, insect bites, allergies, poisoning, and first aid and evacuation kits. Saturday February 4th, 2011 1pm-5pm 500 Aurora Drive, Euless TX 76039 Click to Register Now Saturday March 3rd, 2011 2pm-6pm Hosted by A&B Kennels – Murphy TX Click to Register Now Saturday March 17th, 2011 1pm-5pm 500 Aurora Drive, Euless TX 76039 Click to Register Now Take one of our classes this year so that you will be prepared and can give your pets a better chance of surviving a life threatening emergency.
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Community Suppport, News and Current Events
Dirk - 9 year old senior male pug Last month DFW Pug Rescue was looking for a new blogger for their website : http://dallaspugrescue.blogspot.com/. I love this organization and have helped out in the past as a pug foster, volunteer at events, and Todd has taken some pug photos for them. Sometimes it’s hard for me to make it out to events because of my pet sitting schedule – but I figured the blog position would enable me to help from home. The DFW pug rescue has been around now for 15 years and helps put more than 200 pugs each year into new loving homes. It relies totally on volunteers to keep the organization running. If you would like to get involved as a volunteer just hop over to their volunteer page on their website. There are a couple of fun events coming up this month where you can help the Pug Rescue raise money and adopt out more pugs. Pancake Breakfast Join us for yummy Pancakes and raise money for the Pugs! (This event is for the humans only!) Saturday, January 14 2012, 8:00 am – 10:00 am Location: Applebees, 1901 N Belt Line Rd, Irving, TX 75061 Our first fundraiser of the year! All you can eat pancakes with sausage and juice, tea, soda or coffee. Adult $8, Children under 10 yrs old $5 We are encouraging...
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Professional Pet Sitting
Don’t you love puppies? That adorable and playful bundle of fur that you bring home to join your family. But puppy care can be a lot of work. They can’t hold it as long as older dogs and so they need to be given plenty of potty breaks during training. We would love to help you get your puppy off to a great start by visiting during your workday to make sure your new puppy gets breaks and enough playtime and exercise to keep them stimulated and keep them from becoming destructive and learning bad habits. Our breaks include walking, playtime, feeding, and TLC – plus we can also scoop litter boxes if you have cats while we are at your home. We’ve been visiting Gambit – a cute and playful Husky puppy for the past couple of weeks each weekday for a midday break. We give our midday break clients a discount if you have us visit 5 times a week or more. Do you know anyone who just got a new puppy and needs some help? Let them know about our service so we can make getting through puppyhood easier and so that they can raise a healthy and happy pup! To setup puppy care just give us a call at 817 692 4404 or email us at danielle@protectingmax.com.
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Protecting Max is operated by Danielle and Todd Chonody. We live in Euless, Texas with our two children Lindsey and Andrew. In our home we have four pets - our two cats, Bouie, and Cozzy and dogs Tanner and Sam. 