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12 Ways to Memorialize a Deceased Pet
A pet’s death can take a heavy toll. The emotional impact can be as great or even greater than the loss of a relative. Our pets are a major part of our everyday lives, so it can be frustrating when we feel like other people don’t seem to recognize or acknowledge the profound nature of that loss as much as they might…
5 Reasons Your Dog Loves to Hump Other Dogs
By Sara Reusche I recently house-sat for my parents while they went on vacation. Neither of their pets, a 14-year-old cat and an 11-year-old dog, do well being boarded, so it was much less stressful for me to stay with them than it would have been to send them somewhere. I brought my three dogs with me, so it was a…
How Pets Help Ease Autism Symptoms
By Leah Zerbe, Rodale.com There's just something about pets that makes people kinder. For instance, scientists have shown that people are more likely to have pleasant social interactions when walking a dog than when walking alone. So researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia decided to see how pets could…
Top 12 Surprise Pet Perks
We don’t need to tell you that there’s much more to owning pets that having something cute and cuddly around to look at and occasionally cuddle. Pets enrich and improve our lives in countless ways, and it’s not just about amusement. They offer us real, observable benefits that make us happier, make us…
Dolphin-Assisted Births: Good Idea, or Worst Idea Ever?
Many parents-to-be turn to alternative birthing methods, like home births, or even more unconventional options, like water births. Now an expectant couple from North Carolina is taking the latter a step further, traveling to Hawaii to bond with a pod of dolphins in preparation for a "dolphin-assisted birth" in July,…
Dog Bite Prevention Q&A With Darlene Arden
This week is National Dog Bite Prevention Week! Needless to say, we at PawNation love dogs, but we also acknowledge that they can be dangerous in certain circumstances. Dogs bite nearly five million Americans every year, and there are many different reasons why bites can happen. We talked with animal behavior…
