Have a Happy Holiday For You and Your Dog!

[ian allen]

The snow may not be snowing yet, and going over the river and through
the woods to grandmother's house maybe a few weeks away, but the
Holidays are coming! Now is the best time to start thinking about
preparing for a safe and happy vet free holiday season, while you
still have some time to think.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year and food is the prime
preoccupation in the minds of most folks and dogs! The wonderful
smells and the great treats are enough to drive even the most stalwart
dieter mad.
It is a time of good cheer and benevolent feelings and people tend to
give their pets or pets of their friends extra treats thinking they
are being kind to the dog! Whoops! Wrong thinking. Why!
It matters not if you think of your dog as your child, your dog's
tummy is not the same as a human stomach, no matter what you think.
Their gastrointestinal system was not made to handle the amount of
fat, spices, and butter that our human systems can. Dog's for the most
part have a diet that is almost the same day after boring day and they
like it like that. The wonderful foods of Thanksgiving can give your
dog a bad case of diarrhea or cause your dog to vomit all over the
place....

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