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Online Classifieds: Are You Really Saving Pets When You Buy There?

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Pets in the City Magazine celebrates five years serving the animals of Utah. We owe everything to the advertisers who support us; be sure to read their ads in this magazine, get to know them and visit their businesses whether in person or online. They are fighters right along with you for the protection of animals’ safety, health, life and happiness. We are selective with our advertisers, and we bring the best in their fields to you each month.

Five years ago, when we launched our first magazine, it was to help save animals. Our mission was to assist in the efforts of the animal advocates in our community.

Our first issue launched in August of 2012 with a quote on the cover from Randy Grim, president of Stray Rescue in St. Louis, saying, “Being an animal guardian defines the compassionate connection between animals and humans, counteracting the throw-away mindset that society has toward animals.” With that quote in mind, we proceeded to delve into the laws in Utah to see how our own state ranked.

We soon found out that in Utah animals are thought of as property and they have no rights. As of late, one example is the Santequin family dog sentenced to death under an archaic Utah law that made national and world headlines. The family is still awaiting the fate of their beloved dog. The story reached the ALDF (Animal Legal Defense Fund), a non-profit group of attorneys donating their time to protect the rights of families and their animals.

It is still hard to believe that shelter pets in Utah have no protection against an archaic pound-seizure law allowing animals to be pulled for experimentation. Allie Phillips has a book out titled, How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation, understanding Pound Seizure.

Take the time to google and understand this law.

In March of 2013, the Ag-Gag law was signed by Governor Herbert to keep whistle blower employees and advocates from reporting animal cruelty. The Governor was well informed by “Mercy For Animals” founder Nathan Runkle, who visited our state capitol with undercover videos and photographs of horrific farm cruelty. With eyes wide open, Governor Herbert signed the Ag-Gag law to keep animal cruelty behind closed doors in Utah.

At the time of our first magazine, 57 shelters in the state of Utah were high kill and only seven shelters were no kill. That pierced our hearts to the core. Today, that number has flipped to only seven high kill Animal Shelters left in the State of Utah. The success came from the work of Best Friends Animal Society and a program implemented called NKUT (No Kill Utah). In all, 50 shelters chose to participate.

Get informed and check out the websites of The Humane Society of Utah (HSU), Nuzzles & Co., CAWS, Utah Animal Adoption Society, Ching Farm Sanctuary and more to see what their statistics are for the year. Literally thousands of lives have been saved. Also, be sure to read Temma Martin’s article this month on the dark side of online classifieds as a place to find your next pet.

To all of you who have chosen to read our magazine each month, and to those who have decided to get involved, we praise your efforts.

Thank you for choosing to adopt instead of shop. Please report animal cruelty to John Fox investigator of the Humane Society Utah and your local police enforcement.

Write to us at info@petsinthecitymagazine.com with comments or questions, and continue to entertain us with your pet in the city photos. We love sharing your photos with Utah.

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Online Classifieds: Are You Really Saving Pets When You Buy There? By Temma Martin

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Modern Unicorns: Fur-Covered Hypoallergenic Cats By Sarah Tyler

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The Deadly Dog Days of Summer

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Honoring Dingo and K9 Police Work Humane Mouse Traps

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ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS Are You Really Saving a Pet When You Buy There?

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here are many places to acquire a new pet, but not everyone thinks about how the source of a pet helps or hurts Utah’s effort to end the killing of pets in shelters.

It’s common for people to say they want to adopt from a shelter or rescue group, but after only a day or two of looking for adoptable animals, they turn to the online classifieds.

While many adult pets are successfully “rehomed” though online classifieds, the vast majority of puppies and kittens for sale are the result of irresponsible owners, backyard breeders and even regional puppy mills.

When a family legitimately can no longer keep a pet due to their circumstances, the online classifieds can be a way to reach potential new owners to find the pet a new home. Many shelters and rescue groups also use the classifieds to make their adoptable pets visible to a wider audience. For these purposes, the classified ads are helpful in saving lives.

However, on a given day, there may be as many 3,200 local ads for dogs for sale, and more than 500 ads for cats on just one popular local online classified site. This is actually misleading though, because many of the ads are for litters of puppies and kittens, so many more animals are represented by each ad, making the number of pets for sale much higher.

Many of those advertising pets for sale claim to be “adopting out” their animals, but in fact they are selling them for hundreds or thousands of dollars, generally without vaccinations, and almost always without being spayed or neutered or microchipped – services almost always included with pets adopted from shelters or rescue groups. Staff and volunteers for animal welfare groups are also dedicated to finding loving, forever homes for their animals, and are not out to make a profit.

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find purebreds in shelters and rescues. An estimated quarter to a half of all the dogs in shelters and rescues are purebred. Potential adopters can check www.petfinder.com to find nearly any breed they’re looking for.

Rather than saving a life and giving a home to a pet from a shelter or rescue group, the buyer often spends more money than they would have by adopting, without any services included. The sellers’ main focus is generally making money, so they’re not invested in educating buyers about required vaccinations, or the benefits of spaying and neutering, which often results in sick young pets, unvaccinated animals spreading disease in the community, and eventually more unwanted puppies and kittens.

Sellers have also been known to use deceptive tactics to “find loving homes” for their puppies and kittens. They sometimes lie about the breed or mix of their puppies, claiming they are small-breed dogs and charging more money for them, when in fact they are not going to remain small. A vet tech at a local veterinary hospital was once checking in a puppy that a family had recently bought for $200 from a classified ad. They proudly announced that it was a “Dachshund mix” that was eight weeks old. The vet tech informed them that it was mostly likely going to be the size of a Labrador, since it was the size of a lab puppy at eight weeks, and already nearly the size of a

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Many people who have bought puppies from online classifieds have reported being pressured or guilted into buying by the sellers, who claimed that they would be forced to take the puppies to a shelter if they didn’t find homes for all of them. Buyers then feel like they are “rescuing” puppies from going to a shelter, when mostly likely, the sellers allow their dogs to have litter after litter, always selling them with the same pressure tactic.

The truth is, if a family did resort to taking some of their unwanted puppies to a shelter, chances are the shelter would provide or help the family find a free or low cost spay/neuter program, breaking the cycle of unwanted litters. As long as people buy the puppies, often for significant sums of money, they are creating a demand, and the family will continue to breed, or not feel motivated to spay their dog. (Free and low cost spay/neuter available at http://utah.bestfriends.org/ourprograms/spay-and-neuter or by calling 1-866-PETSFIX.) Sellers who believe they “find good homes” for all their puppies and kittens are unaware how many of the animals they produced end up bring re-sold (often on the same site where they were just bought) days or weeks later, or how many of them end up in shelters, working against the effort to make Utah a no kill state.

Often when buyers discover they were lied to about the breed of the dog, or realize they were given a sick, unvaccinated puppy, the sellers are nowhere to be found. The online classifieds provide a free and easy outlet for individuals, backyard breeders and puppy mills to sell their animals online, with virtually no recourse or accountability. Online classifieds also provide a front for large-scale breeders who keep dozens or hundreds of dogs in puppy mill conditions, where parent dogs spend their whole lives in small cages churning out puppies.

Another risk of buying puppies from online classifieds is the risk of buying a stolen dog. Unfortunately, even in Utah, there are people who steal dogs, particularly purebreds who are not spayed or neutered, and then resell them to unsuspecting buyers. Often the turnaround is so quick, that they original owner doesn’t even see the ad. Others have reported seeing their stolen pets for sale and had police help them get them back.

So in the big picture, what’s wrong with giving a home to a puppy or kitten from the online classifieds? On the one hand, it means creating a demand for animals from questionable sources. It also means that an animal in a shelter or rescue group is denied a chance at a home, and sadly for the buyer, it frequently means that they get a sick or stolen pet, or one that is not at all what they expected when it grows up.

Temma Martin is a public relations specialist for Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. Best Friends runs the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals, as well as programs in partnership with rescue groups and shelters.

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Modern Unicorns: Fur-Covered Hypoallergenic Cats

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any people out there suffer from a cat allergy. At the same time, many of those poor people desperately want to have a cat. They want to snuggle them and feel all the wonderful love and snuggles they give… between love bites and unprovoked scratching. All joking aside, having a cat allergy is nothing to laugh at. It can be truly heartbreaking when one is forced to get rid of feline family due to a new addition to the home, like a child or family member with an allergy. So knowing which breeds are hypoallergenic can definitely spare some heartache.

Many allergy sufferers think their only chance at cat happiness is through a hairless breed like the Sphynx. But that idea is simply untrue. Cat allergies aren’t related to a feline having fur, but stems from their saliva. The Fel D 1 protein is the key cat allergen. When cats groom, it spreads the allergen all over their body. It’s a sticky protein that ends up getting into your furniture, carpets and clothes.

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Balinese are lean and strong. Short hair and a luxurious fluffy tail create a unique appearance among cat breeds. A very vocal and jovial breed, they make great pets and love people. The best feature for an allergy sufferer is that the breed has less of the Fel D 1 protein in their saliva than most other cat breeds. They are average to large in size, ranging from 12 to 16 pounds with the male cats being on the heavier side of the scale. They come in many colors including seal point, chocolate point, blue point and lilac point with a wide assortment of patterns and shadings.

These lovely kitties can live up to 20 years.

The Siberian cat is a long-haired, gentle creature. The gentle giant weighs in between 17 and 26 pounds, which is much larger than most other cat breeds. Their water resistant coat tends to be a little oily and comes in wide color varieties. This problem-solving cat is extremely intelligent. They’re also attracted to water, often batting toys into it and playing around it. This extremely old breed hails from the Asian and European continents. It tends to be a bit rarer in the United States than abroad, but it’s affectionate and easy temperament make it a desirable pet. This breed, like the Balinese, also has a very low level of Fel D 1 protein in their spit.

Another cat with low Fel D 1 protein is the Russian Blue.

This grey kitty is friendly, quiet and typically shy. Children and other pets are welcomed additions to the Russian Blue’s life, but they aren’t a huge fan of change, so make sure to move slowly on introductions and not rush things. A very graceful breed, they are also prideful and intelligent, though not destructive like many other intelligent breeds.

A jungle kitty in its looks, the Bengal cat has a uniquely short, fine coat that requires almost no grooming and doesn’t shed much. Though they don’t have reduced Fel D 1 protein production, their fur tends to get minimal protein coating with saliva because of the low grooming needs.

With spots instead of stripes, these expensive pets usually start at $2,000. The Oriental Shorthair, Laperm and Javanese cats all work for mild cat allergy sufferers, because much like the Bengal cat, they shed less than other breeds and have fine coats. The Javanese actually has only 1 coat of fur as opposed to the traditional three coats most cats have.

Reduced coats means reduced proteins.

There are other hypoallergenic breeds that have nearly no fur, or none at all, which for severe allergy sufferers may be the only way to go. However, for most people out there, with this list of kitties, almost any cat allergy sufferer can find a feline companion to love.

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very summer, I dread hearing the news – another dog left to die a slow, miserable death after being left in an overheated car. It’s a senseless and easily preventable tragedy, but it happens each year as soon as warm weather rolls in. Already, a Florida police dog named Diesel died after being left in a squad car. A mother dog and her nine puppies were left in a car in the San Francisco Bay Area for about six hours, killing three of the puppies. And the warmest weather is still to come. The good news is that laws are changing, and more people are learning the danger of leaving animals in hot cars.

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Just a few minutes in a car can be deadly for dogs. The temperature inside a car quickly soars much higher than the temperature outside.

When it’s 70 degrees outside, the temperature inside a car can rise to 89 degrees in only 10 minutes. On hotter days, the inside of a car can shoot up to 114 degrees in the same amount of time. Contrary to popular belief, leaving a window cracked open does virtually nothing to alleviate the heat.

Being stuck in a room at a temperature of 90 degrees or higher would be miserable for any human, but it’s especially dangerous for dogs because they don’t have the same cooling mechanisms as we do, and don’t cool off as easily. As a result, locking a dog in a car can be a death sentence, even on mild days.

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Though every summer we hear dozens of stories of dogs suffering and dying in hot cars, we’re making progress. Legislators are increasingly aware of the dangers of hot cars, and 27 states now have so-called “hot car” laws on the books. That’s up from 15 states in 2014.

Initially, most hot car laws were simply prohibitions on confining an animal in a motor vehicle and endangering her safety, usually due to extreme temperatures, but more recently hot car laws have included so-called Good Samaritan provisions – granting immunity to a person who attempts to rescue an animal from a vehicle. Today, 11 states have Good Samaritan laws on the books.

Even with the recent growth of hot car laws, their scope varies widely across the states. Some of the laws apply to all animals, and others only apply to cats and dogs, while still others include any domestic or companion animal, or even children. Furthermore, Good Samaritan provisions sometimes restrict liability protections to certain public officials, empowering law enforcement officials to

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A comprehensive legal approach to saving animals from suffering and dying in hot cars must include Good Samaritan laws that permit any person, including private citizens, to rescue animals from cars in certain situations.

For example, in Florida, state law grants civil immunity to a “person who enters a motor vehicle, by force or otherwise, for the purpose of removing a vulnerable person or domestic animal” if the person takes a number of steps including calling 911 first and using no more force than necessary to enter the vehicle and remove the vulnerable person or domestic animal. Similarly, in Tennessee, a person is immune from civil liability for “damage resulting from the forcible entry of a motor vehicle” to remove a child or animal if similar steps to those required in Florida are taken. Most recently, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed HB 2494 into law, which protects people who come to the aid of an animal or child locked in a car. Additionally, the Oregon legislature passed a hot car bill granting criminal and civil immunity to civilian rescuers.

Even if your state doesn’t yet have any hot car laws, those who leave animals to die in cars can sometimes be prosecuted under a general animal cruelty law.

How You Can Raise Awareness!

Even if you never come across an animal locked in a hot car, you play a part in ending this seasonal tragedy. The Animal Legal Defense Fund holds an annual campaign to educate people about the dangers of hot cars and prevent needless animal deaths. Our windshield sunshade is an easy way to inform your neighbors that a locked car can be a death sentence for a pet even if it’s not a particularly hot day. Sunshades can be purchased on the Animal Legal Defense Fund website. We also have ready-to-print flyers and social media sharegraphics to help spread the word.

Make sure you know the hot car laws in your state, then take your advocacy to the next level and work to encourage improved laws.

Know How to Save a Life

If you do find a dog left in a car, quickly try to locate the driver and tell her that the dog could be hurt or killed.

Stores will often page customers over their loudspeakers if you ask a clerk for help. If you can’t find the owner, always call 911. Even in a state without laws about dogs left in cars, police or emergency workers should attempt to help an animal in distress. Whatever you do, don’t just walk away and hope for the best. You may be the animal’s only hope.

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Honoring Dingo and K9 Police Work A Priceless Partnership

By April Northstrom

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he Unified Police Department (UPD) held memorial services on July 15 for Dingo, a K9 police dog killed in the line of duty on July 6. Dingo, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois, was shot and killed pursuing a wanted fugitive. During the memorial, hundreds of people honored both Dingo and his handler Sergeant Chad Reyes, who was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant by Sherriff Jim Winder. K9 units from more than a dozen police departments joined the procession.

Dingo’s service and the terrible circumstances surrounding his death bring to light the importance of K9 programs. Speaking to news reporters, Winder noted that K9 units save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars for the work they do, especially when it comes to searches. He said that without canine companions on the force, many searches would be much harder for human officers working alone, and doing so would take more time.

Dingo was the second UPD police dog to be killed in the line of duty this year. On April 27, Aldo was shot and killed while serving a search and arrest warrant in Millcreek. He was also the most seasoned dog on the UPD’s K9 Unit. He served with his handler, Luis Lovato, for more than five years and was six years old.

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he was qualified to participate in patrols and drug detection. In Utah, the Department of Public Safety is responsible for overseeing the rigorous training standards required from canine units. Unified Police have had a K9 unit since the 1960s, but the motivation and training standards have changed a lot since then. It’s now less about having a force on a leash and more about having a canine partner in the line of duty. In order to pay for the expenses associated with having police dogs, UPD works through The Friends for Unified Police K9 organization to pay for many K9 costs, including those associated with acquiring new dogs, vet bills for retired dogs and bullet-proof dog vests.

Although smaller in scope than the UPD’s program, West Valley City Police Department also has a demanding K9 program with some of the best police dogs in the West.

In October 2016, the department won the Las Vegas K9 Trials competition. Something that is no small feat for any department. The West Valley City K9 Team consists of seven dogs and six officers.

While the logistical benefits of a having a well-trained K9 partner are easy to list, such as enhanced drug and bomb detection and helping officers do their job safer, better, and faster, the emotional bonds between the dog and the handler are priceless. Dingo and Reyes had worked together for five years. They had overcome Dingo’s cancer battle and a recent spleen surgery. Dingo was a part of Reyes’ family, and his death has left a great void for many – on and off the force.

Dogs like Dingo and Aldo aren’t trained simply to obey commands. They are trained to be an integrated part of police work. K9 work goes beyond apprehending a fugitive or sniffing out drugs. It’s about working together, human and animal, to protect and defend those in harm’s way. Following Dingo’s passing, Reyes told the Salt Lake Tribune, “He always saw me through, and in the early morning hours of July 6, he ensured once again that I’d come home to my children, although this time without him.”

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Humane Mouse Traps

By Mary Holmes

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ice and rats are complex beings who are very social and have the capacity to experience a wide range of emotions. They become attached to one another, enjoy playing, love their families and sleep curled up together. They groom themselves daily, have excellent memories, like being tickled and can recognize their names if given them, and make a chirping noise like laughter. Once a rat learns a navigation route, they never forget it. They deserve humane care, especially if you prefer them out of your own home.

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Glue traps and poisons are futile, dangerous to humans, and extremely cruel, as animals often spend days suffering before eventually dying in agony. Poisons are highly toxic to humans and pose risks to companion animals and non-target wildlife who come into contact with them or with the bodies of poisoned rodents.

Glue traps also pose risks to all small animals as well as posing disease risks to humans (Health Canada and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both caution against their use).

Lethal methods never work to keep rodents away in the long run and will actually backfire. This is because when animals are killed or otherwise removed, the resultant spike in the food supply causes accelerated breeding among survivors and newcomers—and this means increased populations.

Rodents are attracted to areas with adequate food sources and shelter, both indoors and outdoors. Eliminate access to food by keeping counter surfaces, floors, and cabinets free of crumbs and storing dry food and pet food in chew-proof containers. Seal trash, pick up your animal companions’ food at night, never feed them outdoors, and pick up fallen fruit. Reduce hiding places by keeping grass and vegetation trimmed back.

Determine where the animals are entering by checking for entry points such as holes and cracks, gaps around pipes and doors, etc. (Rats can slip into buildings through quarter-size holes, and mice can squeeze into dime-size holes.) Feces and signs of chewing or food-storing can also help determine the places that rodents frequent. Repel rodents by using ammonia-soaked rags or cotton balls; animals won’t like the smell and will leave. Once animals have been repelled, seal entry points temporarily using steel wool or insulation.

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hemotherapy is a word that creates an instant emotional response in everyone. Chances are that you, or someone you know, have experienced chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer. Visions of nausea and vomiting, hair loss, and lack of energy appear just by thinking the word. At first, many people are opposed to having their pets go through chemotherapy. However, the goal of chemotherapy in animals is different than for humans, which is why treatment is less aggressive.

With pets, the primary goal of chemotherapy is to provide your cat or dog with the best quality of life for as long as possible. We hope for a cure, but we don’t see a lot of cures because we don’t treat them as aggressively. Their quality of life is most important. Doses of medications and treatment schedules are calculated to minimize discomfort to the patient, while providing the most effective defense against the disease. Thus, most people are pleasantly surprised at how well their pets feel while undergoing chemotherapy.

The goal of chemotherapy is to slow the growth of cancer cells, while producing minimal bad effects on normal cells. Combining different chemotherapeutic drugs is an important, and often effective, strategy in chemotherapy. When drugs are used in combination, they may enhance the activities of each other. These medications may be given by injection or sometimes orally. The treatment dose and administration schedule depends on the type of cancer and chemotherapy method. Veterinarians use many of the same chemotherapy medications used for humans, though often at reduced doses. Many of these medications are derived from natural substances, such as trees, plants, or bacteria.

Both dogs and cats can benefit significantly from chemotherapy with certain cancers. Though they have quite different metabolism from dogs, cats are often great patients for these types of treatments.

Veterinarians like to refer to cats as being “made of steel” when it comes to cancer; they are stronger and more resilient than they appear.

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While some cancers do not respond well to chemotherapy, many common cancers in our pets do. Included in the responsive types is lymphoma, which is the most common cancer seen in dogs. Mast cell tumors, bone cancer, hemangiosarcoma, and certain other carcinomas have shown improvement in survival with chemotherapy.

Practically all chemotherapy drugs have side effects. However, their potential effect against the cancer generally outweighs the possible side effects. Although serious adverse effects can occur with any chemotherapy, there is a very small chance that a patient will be hospitalized with side effects and less than a one percent chance of fatality. Below are listed some potential side effects of many chemotherapeutic agents.

Hair loss – Pets rarely lose their hair, but may be slow to regrow hair when shaved. Cats may lose all or most of their whiskers.

Bone marrow suppression – This will cause a temporary decrease in the number of infection-fighting white blood cells, which can lessen a patient’s ability to fight off infection. Should your pet have a significant reduction in the number of white blood cells, the doctor may wish to perform periodic blood tests, delay a proposed therapy, and/or prescribe antibiotics to protect against infection.

Stomach upset – Some patients experience some form of stomach or intestinal discomfort two to seven days after a chemotherapy

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treatment. There are very good medications available these days to minimize these side effects and keep our pets eating well.

It’s always important to remember that our pets’ comfort and quality of life is of utmost importance, and if treating cancer with medication can increase the time we have with them without sacrificing that, then chemotherapy may be an option to consider without too much fear. Cancer can often be thought of as a chronic disease. We would all love to cure cancer but when we can’t, it helps to remember cats and dogs can live with their cancer and enjoy relatively normal lives. Please don’t be afraid to have a good conversation with your veterinarian about whether chemotherapy is something to be considered if your pet is diagnosed with cancer.

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Q. I am too busy to adopt a puppy and am looking into getting an older dog. What are the benefits of getting a dog that is older? – Jake

A. Did you know that I was adopted when I was one and a half years old? Older dogs are great! If you have a busy lifestyle, an older dog might be a better fit than a puppy. Many people want to start out with a young puppy. Who can blame them? All puppies are little and cute! But, puppies take up tons of time. There are many older dogs looking for homes. They can be found online, or through friends, family, coworkers, groomers, veterinarian’s offices, dog trainers, animal shelters or animal rescues.

Older dogs: • Are generally housetrained. If the older dog is not housetrained, it will be easier to housetrain them because she can physically hold her bladder and bowels longer than a puppy can.

• Don’t have sharp teeth like puppies. You won’t have to go through the chewing stage as many older dogs have already learned what they can and can’t chew on in the home.

• Tend to be more mellow than a puppy, and usually don’t have the crazy energy that a puppy can have. Especially the older adults or senior dogs.

• Should have already learned what the word “no” means. They also may know other basic obedience commands such as sit, down, come and shake, and may even know a few cute tricks.

• Many know how to live in our human society. They tend to settle in easier because they have learned how to live with a pack of humans. They tend to know what is expected out of them.

• Are grateful for the second chance they have been given. They tend to know the difference between having a home and not having a home.

• Are what you see is what you get. Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their size, shape, color and personality. You know what you are getting yourself into.

• Tend to let you sleep through the night because they have become accustomed to the human’s schedule. They won’t need nighttime feedings, comforting or bathroom breaks. An adult dog should be able to hold its bladder for at least eight hours, where a puppy can only hold it for about two to four hours at a time.

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Live-Trapping Mice and Rats After rodent-proofing the building, any animals who remain can be humanely live-trapped during mild weather and released nearby.

Humane trapping is effective so long as traps are checked hourly. Mice and rats can die from stress-induced disorders, exposure, or dehydration in just a few short hours. Traps should be scrubbed with a mild bleach solution (to eliminate food smells), disabled, and securely stored when not in use— especially during cold weather and times when they cannot be checked hourly!

Peanut butter is an effective bait. The bait must be at the very back of the trap so that the rodent’s tail won’t get caught in the trap door, which can break it.

Set the traps against walls in areas frequented by the rodents (i.e., places where you’ve seen droppings). Again, the traps must be checked hourly and disabled when this isn’t possible!

Captured mice and rats can be kept calm by placing a towel over the trap.

Release them within 100 yards of where they were trapped. Releasing a mouse or rat into a strange area will almost surely result in the animal’s death because relocated animals don’t know where to find adequate food, water, or shelter and often become weak and succumb to predation or foreign parasites or disease against which they lack a natural immunity.

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Female / 2 Years Old / Blue Pitbull I am a total people dog and love kids. I would prefer to be an only pet right now because I don’t like cats or small animals. I’m a pretty lazy gal and love squishy dog beds. I have my puppy-like moments as well, and love to play and roll around on the grass. I have severe allergies; we are working through them but it will be an on-going process and I am on a strict diet. To meet me, contact CAWS at caws.org.

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