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Declutter It! is all about organizing your home and home office. Here's a list of my weekly post topics: Motivate Me Mondays, Tick Tock Tuesdays, Where's My Desk Wednesdays, Tame Those Toys Thursdays, Find It Fridays.
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December’s Doggie & Kitty Links
PetMD is covering 5 Pet-safe holiday leftovers. Did you know green beans are OK to feed as long as they’re not mixed with other ingredients, like in a casserole? Moderncat covered the opening of Colony Cats, a cozy, contemporary cat adoption c...
A Happy Thanksgiving for Your Pets
Happy Thanksgiving! If your pets are anything like mine, today they’re walking around a little more excited and alert than usual, taking in all the happenings in the kitchen and basking in the attention from the day’s visitors. Don’...
AKC to Recognize Three New Dog Breeds
The American Kennel Club has announced they’re recognizing three more dog breeds as the 162nd, 163rd, and the 164th AKC registered breeds. Redbone Coonhound The three “new” breeds are the Bluetick Coonhound, the Boykin Spaniel and t...
Don’t Forget Shelter Pets at Thanksgiving
During the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, many businesses and stores run food drives for canned and non-perishable food items to be donated to those who are less fortunate and not able to afford a Thanksgiving meal on their own. For animal lovers...
Eight Golden Rules of Boarding Pets
While you’re making your holiday travel plans, don’t forget to use plenty of care when choosing your pet’s boarding facility. Since kennels are often at capacity during holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, you need to start res...
Fostering Cats, Part 2
This may become a regular series, the way we’re going! We had our home inspection this morning for the kitten fostering we’ve been looking into, and have been approved! Within the next few hours we’ll be getting a litter of four k...
Let Phelps Rescue You
Phelps is a 7-year-old sweet and friendly Retriever mix taken in by Last Hope Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, a small private rescue that helps dogs and cats from local shelters. He presently lives at Last Hope’s Dog Center on Long Island. ...
Evil Chihuahua
So Pablo the Chihuahua isn’t really evil, he just really likes to tease his bigger Doberman brother Ramsey with a dog toy! This cute video, taken by Pablo and Ramsey’s owner Chad, shows “playtime” between the two dogs. I find ...
Potty Patch for Dogs
Potty Patch is a three-tiered dog restroom for indoor or patio use for those times when you can’t get home to walk your dog or during inclement weather. It may also be used for puppy training, or for those times when your dog just can’t w...
Christmas Cards from American Humane
If you’re planning on sending Christmas cards this year, you can also help pets while you’re addressing envelopes. The nonprofit American Humane offers a large variety of dog and cat cards through Holiday Card Center. They even throw in a...
NCAA Helmutt Houses for Dogs of Fans
Does your dog watch football games with you? Is it possible your pet is a football fan too? Perhaps they want to show their support with a fun, functional football accessory? Helmutt House offers a large selection of Helmutt Houses: football helmet r...
World’s Smallest Dog Dies
This just hasn’t been a good few weeks for canine world record holders. Earlier last month Gibson, the tallest dog in the world, lost his battle to cancer, and just last week the world’s oldest dog also passed away. Now I’ve read ...
Weekend Pet Links
This weekend I thought I’d do a link round up of some of my favorite pet-related links for the weekend. I come across so many great ones throughout the week that I don’t always get a chance to share them, so I figured why not list them al...
What Makes Bo’s Hair Curly?
Researchers from the University of Utah recently used data from Portuguese water dogs to find out which gene gives dogs curly hair or long, wavy hair. In the photo below, University of Utah biologist K. Gordon Lark holds Mopsa, his Portuguese water d...
Know Where Your Dog Is At All Times
When I was a kid, we had a dog that just did not like being in the backyard. No matter what methods we’d try — going out with her on a leash, attaching her to a lead, etc — she always managed to jump the fence separating the front a...
