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5 Fun Games That Will Improve Your Dog Walk
Walking (with) your dog can be a fun and engaging physical and mental exercise. It’s also the time for you and your dog to bond. Yes it means take a break from your phone and just talk to your dog – by talk I mean engage with – though I do often converse with my…
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Sniffing Games for Your Dog’s Mental Exercise
Sniffing is such an important and natural behaviour for our dogs. That’s how they gather information, interact with their environment and communicate. Allowing our dogs to sniff and explore is one of the best mental exercises we can do to keep their brain sharp, prevent boredom, decrease hyper-activity and lower stress level. A mentally stimulated…
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Teach Your Dog To Be A Sniffer Dog
Did you know that dogs have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in humans. And the part of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analysing smells is, proportionally speaking, 40 times greater than ours. To put it plainly, they can smell 10,000 to 100,000 times better…
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Safely Feed Your Dog Bones
Dogs and bones, they seem like a perfect pair. If you’re keen to feed your pup bones, this post will help you choose the best and safest bones for your pup. But before we dig deeper into various bone types and which ones are suitable for your pup, let’s start by answering commonly asked bone…
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5 Other Ways to Keep Your Dog’s Teeth in Tip-top Shape (Other Than Brushing)
Brushing your dog’s teeth daily or every 2–3 days is recommended to help remove plaque and tartar buildup. But if your dog is like Bowie who runs away whenever I try to brush his teeth, then these suggestions below may work for you and your pup. Use gauze or soft finger toothbrush to gently scrub…
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Ep.10 Paw Wow with Tara O’Connell, Founder of The Diary Apps
Balancing the demands of a busy life is not an easy task. Good news is that our pets can help us achieve a good life balance and in return, be happier themselves! Having a pet can enhance our social life, promote exercise, reduce stress and take the focus away from our day-to-day life issues. The…
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Pet Emergency Kit
Let’s plan ahead and be prepared before an emergency happens so that you can act quickly to ensure the safety and wellbeing of yourself and your fur-mate/s. We’ve compiled a list of essentials to pack in emergency situations: ✓ Non-refrigerated food for at least one week (and treats if necessary)✓ Feeding bowl✓ Bottled water with…
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Bowie’s Essentials In A Box
Including first aid, grooming, health and beauty kit. With a New Year comes the desire to clean up and organise my stuff… well at least my dog’s (Bowie) stuff. I put all his essentials (minus his food, treats and toys) in a ‘dedicated’ box and stored the box in the laundry, in an easy-to-reach place…
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Look Beyond My Disability: Meet Diesel
Diesel is one hell of a superdog. He’s been on TV, pet and animal expos, a mascot for a vet clinic, and he even appeared on his very own dog food label at one stage. When Diesel was 6 years old, he was diagnosed with an illness known as Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA). PRA is…
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Look Beyond My Disability: Meet Alma
Like humans, dogs don’t choose to come into this world with disabilities. However some dogs were born with it, some inherited it then became disabled later on in their life, and some sadly had it due to accident, neglect or mistreatment. Sometimes you can see the disability, but other times you can’t. These dogs adapt…
