Tips For Keeping Your Pet Safe On Bonfire Night

The fireworks year can be a tough time for pets and livestock, and their entrepreneurs. Many animals have additional acute hearing than people, and of program there is no way to make clear to them the rationale for the unexpected loud bangs. However, there are some techniques that animal entrepreneurs can consider to minimise the affect of the sounds and disruption. 

How to help pet dogs cope with fireworks

All around fifty percent of all dogs uncover loud bangs and whistles distressing. Their ears are pretty sensitive, and some breeds of doggy might even experience bodily suffering in their ears from the noise. Consequently, it is vital to retain them indoors in the quietest space in the residence on bonfire evening. 

Walk them for the duration of the daytime, prior to any firework displays begin, and prepare to invest the night at dwelling with your canine. In the function that

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Celebrate Shelter Pets Day (+ tips to get those share-worthy dog photos!)

Every day in our home is Celebrate Shelter Pets Day (just ask our two dogs and three cats–all former shelter residents) but we can all really pull out the stops every December for this one-day event.

Celebrate Shelter Pets Day - December pet holiday

When is Celebrate Shelter Pets Day?

Celebrate Shelter Pets Day is observed every December 5. This pet holiday began in 2010 as a joint project by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Maddie’s Fund as a day for people who have adopted pets to share photos on social media.

First called Shelter Pets Take Over Facebook Day, the day was invented as a fun way for people to show their adopted pets–which would then hopefully encourage more people to consider pet adoption.

The reason the groups took this approach was because surveys they had conducted showed, “People are three times more likely to go to a shelter or rescue group when

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