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Archive for June, 2011

Its June and the weather is awesome!  As a Seattle dog walker, this is my favorite time of year because the weather is perfect for dog walks! I was overnighting at a clients over the weekend and took the pups on a nice outing.

The dogs love getting out as much as I do! They spent the majority of the time sniffing and exploring, but by the time our walk was over, they were super tired!

Here they are enjoying the trail!

Dog walks in Ballard are beautiful!

This is from petsit.com, one of the organizations I belong to:)

June is National Disaster Preparedness Month for Animals
The first five months of 2011 have brought much destruction; including tornados, floods and fires in the United States and the devastating tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan. Disasters can happen anytime, anywhere and can take many different forms.

In the event of a disaster, preparation can save lives—yours and the pets in your care. Creating a disaster plan is a proactive way to ensure that you, your pets and clients’ pets are safe. 

As a pet-care professional, you can help your clients create a disaster plan. When creating a disaster plan for yourself or your clients, keep in mind that if evacuation is the safest option for people, it’s also the safest option for pets. 

The following eight tips will help you, and your clients, prepare for a disaster.

1. Understand the possibilities. Recognize the different types of natural and man-made disasters that can occur in your area and know how to effectively plan for them.

2. Make decisions early. Different disasters require different courses of action. The sooner you create a disaster plan, the more time you have to prepare.

3. Update identification. Make sure your pet wears current identification at all times that includes his name, rabies tag and your cell phone number since you will not be at home.

4. Your pet’s history. Create a file for each pet that contains health history, vaccination dates and a recent photo. Keep the file in a safe and secure place.

5. Research animal-friendly places. Know where you can take your pet in the event of an emergency. Evacuation shelters and pet-friendly hotels outside a 60-mile radius of your home are good places to start.

6. Stock up on emergency supplies. Keep extra leashes, bowls, newspapers, trash bags, cat litter, litter pans and at least a five-day supply of pet food and water on hand.

7. Get a carrier. Have a properly-sized pet carrier for each pet. Carriers should be large enough for the pet to stand up, turn around and lie down comfortably.

8. Communicate your plan. Make sure that the other people you rely on for the pets in your care are privy to the specific pet-care plans of your clients in case you are away from home when a disaster strikes.

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As a dog walker I have come across every breed. My favorite of all time are boxers and pugs. I used to foster boxers when I lived in a house in AZ, but after the house I ended up doing the apartment living  for most of my adulthood This resulted in me focusing my fostering on pugs since they are smaller and better apartment dogs.

(even though with enough exercise, any dog is a fine apartment dog)

Through the years I have fostered over 25 pugs. Rescues are always in need of foster homes. From a few days to a few month…anything helps.

Fostering is great if you like a breed of dog but have never owned one before. You can foster and see if that breed is a good fit for your family.

Foster dogs are spay/neutered, vet checked, UTD on shots, microchipped. And if any medical issue comes up while you are fostering..the rescue pays for it!

Check you local rescue today and see how you can help.

If you are in Seattle and love pugs…..www.seattlepugs.com

Anyways, enough of my yammering!….This is Angus, my current foster pug.

Even though I am a seattle dog walker and walk dogs all day, I love making timne to foster pugs!