Boxer Dogs - In Case Of Emergencyer dog breeds, requires a lot of responsibilities, patience and love. The moment you decided to take home a new puppy means that you are well aware of the responsibilities intertwined to a dog owner. But knowing the responsibilities alone is not enough in order for you to become a responsible and good dog owner. You must adhere to these responsibilities not just for your own glory as good dog owner but more importantly for the sake of your beloved pet. While you are doing all you can to keep your pet healthy and happy by feeding well-balanced diet, giving required exercise and regular grooming, may you not forget that responsibility doesn't end there. Accidents or emergencies happen anytime whether you want it or not, whether you are ready for it or not. Since you cannot stop an emergency nor predict when will it happen, you just have to arm yourself with first aid ideas that could make a difference between life and death of your dog.
Keep a first aid safety kit on hand. The kit must be a waterproof container with label containing the phone numbers of your vet, the nearest animal emergency hospital, emergency hotlines and poison control hotlines as well as your name and contact information. Include also a list of your emergency contact person's numbers, your dog's name, age, sex, breed and any health problems, a copy of your pet's vaccination records as well as photo of your pet in case needed.
First aid kit for dogs must include supplies such as roll cotton, cotton balls, gauze pads and tape, hydrogen peroxide, hydrocortisone ointment, scissors, eyewash, silver nitrate, tweezers, oral syringes, electrolyte fluid, at least two towels, exam gloves, elastic wrap, emergency ice pack, thermometer, rubbing alcohol, styptic powder, aspirin and plastic baggies. When traveling, it is important to have bottled water, food/water bowl, spare leash, crate and muzzle.
If someone is taking care of your pet while you are away, be sure to discuss your pet with them. Show them where you keep the first aid kit and vet records and discuss about your vet and his contact info, the emergency animal hospital info, how to contact you and the name and contact info of a relative or friend you trust to make decisions if you are unavailable.
You may not know when, where or in what way emergency will occur but by having first aid kit and knowing what to do in case of emergency, you know you are ready.
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this. Right after we had to put her brother down because of kidney failure, she had a similar episode. I would have to guess that it has to do with feelings of vulnerability. But she's a cat! What can I know about what motivates her?
So what does all this have to do with accepting "what is?" On the other occasions when she decided she was going to live under our bed from now on, I thought it just wasn't right. Why should she do that? She should come out and eat and do all the regular stuff. Why should I have to coddle her? Why doesn't she just get with it? How can I fix it? Just what the heck is going through her little walnut of a brain? (Did you know that they say a cat's brain is about the size of a whole walnut? It explains a lot.) At any rate, the upshot of all that non-acceptance is that it causes me a lot of stress. I mean a lot. And I worry about her. Our cat home veterinary book doesn't have much to say about this issue and there is no way she would ever consent to talk to a cat psychologist.
The thing is I can't know what is going on inside her little walnut. I don't know why she is suddenly afraid of me in some situations and not in others. And I can't fix it. And neither can anyone else (she has never been to a vet and may never visit one). So I have decided to just accept that for now (and maybe forever, who knows) she is our cat-who-lives-under-our-bed.
I give her food in her bowl that is pushed well under the bed and away from the outside edges. There is very little "head room" under there and the bowl does have a very low rim, but still I wonder how she manages to eat it. She does have a habit of eating with her feet, but the bowl appears to have been licked clean, so I decided to risk annoying her and watched the process. She pulls the bowl directly under her mouth and starts scooping the food into her mouth with her paw. She is a strangely amazing cat. When Bear was still alive, he would sometimes jump into our bathroom window before Winnie could. This was a highly coveted spot as it offered a high vantage point for peering outside. So she would run into the bathroom, get his attention and run out through our bedroom and into the dining room where she would meow loudly. She kept up the back and forth until he could stand it no longer and he would leave the window to see what was up. Then Winnie would dash into our bathroom to claim the window. How's that for using the old walnut?
She also gets her hairball remedy treats each morning...under the bed. I only see her during the day if I go and lift the bed skirt and look at her. Mostly I keep this to a minimum to avoid annoying her and only do it to be certain she is still breathing. She comes out at night, usually after we have gone to bed, to use the litter box and drink some water. She will also eat some of the dry food that I leave out for her. She comes in the very early morning to lay on my stomach and purr as if nothing were wrong, only to disappear as soon as it seems likely that I am about to get out of bed.
It still all seems a bit silly to me; I can't quite get over that. But if I want people to just accept me as I am, well then, I should at least show others the same courtesy...including our cat. So I am not trying to drag her out from under there. I am not trying to make her conform to my idea of proper cat behavior. I accept that this is how it now is between us. I don't really believe that she will continue in this behavior for the rest of her life. I am not entirely certain that it would make for a healthy lifestyle, but for now, this is how it is and I'm okay with that; and it feels wonderful.
Accepting what is and not resisting it doesn't mean that you let the world walk all over you. It just means that you stop judging situations as good or bad. Things are just what they are; if you don't label them then they have no power over you. Within this framework, going with the flow so to speak, you can still work to achieve the outcomes that you desire. And sometimes you just "flow" right into what you want with no effort at all. Case in point, it is many hours since I first started to write this article and just moments ago, there was Winnie, sitting beside my computer chair and meowing her head off at me. That usually means FEED ME. NOW. So she is coming out of her self imposed exile. Still, I will keep an open mind about what tomorrow will bring.
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