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|In: Animal Rescue|Last Updated:
10 Years of Life Saving, What To Do Next?

This year, Dallas Pets Alive! is celebrating our 10th anniversary as a foster-based rescue organization dedicated to saving the lives of healthy and treatable pets at greatest risk of euthanasia in North Texas. While we celebrate this milestone, we also want to celebrate YOU because together, we have transformed more than 11,000 animals’ and their families’ lives! 

Most pets that come into our care have medical issues so severe that shelters don’t have the capacity to care for them. More than a ⅓ of the animals DPA helps are considered Major Medical Cases ($1,000 or more in medical expenses). 

In 2021 we spent a total of $255,000 medical treatment for 1,385 animals from basic vaccinations to heartworms to major surgeries.

In honor of our 10th anniversary, long-time DPA supporters and advocates, Amy and Peter Baldwin, have stepped forward to launch The Baldwin Family Urgent Medical Care Fund. The fund’s

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|In: Pigs As Pets|Last Updated:
An Unexpected Life Preserver During Stressful Times
– Photo courtesy of Greg Fischer –

I never thought I’d get Covid. Yes, twenty-three of my friends had it during the month of July, but me? No way! Well that fantasy ended when Ken and I picked up the virus on our getaway to Montana.

During my illness, I experienced mild symptoms – my head felt like it was gripped in a vice that was being tightened ever so slowly. I was grateful for the morning when the tide turned and I became a mere puddle of sweat.

The Aftermath

Before Covid, I’d consider myself someone with pretty good wellness habits. I meditate, hike with Grace, eat a whole-foods plant-based diet, do yoga, and practice gratitude – extremely helpful activities to get through the tough times we are living in. After my brush with Covid I felt like a deflated balloon – without energy, motivation, or desire to do … Read more

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|In: Terrier Dog|Last Updated:
One oft-overlooked strategy to tend to pets in fourth life stage is made easier with a common household object

Tending to a pet’s primary cleanliness and grooming is a component of the operate I do with animals in fourth lifestyle stage (the stage of life the place a pet of any age is in a point out of decline due to a everyday living-restricting diagnosis or age-relevant leads to). 

Some animals have to have assist with cleanliness, like when they have urinary or fecal incontinence. This is required to retain their pores and skin and fur clean and dry, and usually in great integrity in all those parts. And when we will need to be maintaining an eye on that as effectively as preserving their bedding dry and no cost from squander, extra typically pets require support with basic grooming of their fur. 

It just gets more difficult for them to manage as they age, especially with cats, who I’ll be focusing on below. 

The convey to-tale unkempt appear

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|In: Tom Cat|Last Updated:
Lainegene Patricia Van Dusen, had an incredible daily life

Lainegene Patricia Van Dusen, “Patti,” handed absent quickly Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.  She was 84 many years “young” and resided in Millsboro.

Patti was a genuine “California Girl” born in San Diego, Calif.  She graduated from San Diego State College in which she gained a bachelor of arts diploma with an emphasis in contemporary dance.  Patti was one particular of a type who has been explained by pals as a minimal angel who was sturdy, quirky, kindhearted, bubbly, charismatic, loving, beautiful, satisfied, graceful and a ray of mild.  

Patti experienced a entire, astounding existence crammed with power.  She packed a whole lot of life and love in her 84 years as she traveled the nation and globe with stops in California, Texas, Germany, France, Alabama, Maryland, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.  She not too long ago moved to be with her daughters in Delaware.

Patti had a authentic enthusiasm

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|In: Catahoula Leopard Dog|Last Updated:
How to tell your doggy you might be going again to the office | Way of life

Scene: A doggy owner has been knowledgeable that his firm will be recalling staff members to the business office. He summons his pet dog to break the information.

Human: So we have to communicate.

Canine: I cannot chat. I experience the globe by a symphony of aromas, the angle of the sun, and how considerably my butt does, or does not, itch.

Human: Suitable, Okay, but for the functions of this tale, let’s assume you can.

Dog: Ok. [Scratching.] Now, what were we conversing about? Was it foodstuff? By the way, there is week-previous squirrel poop on your shoe.

Human: Which just one?

Canine: The a single that smells of week-old squirrel poop! You necessarily mean you you should not know? How can you not know?

Human: In no way brain. I have some news: I’m likely back to the workplace.

Pet dog: Wonderful! I appreciate you! Do you have

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