With a little help from my owner, I’ve opened a little store so you can shop for things JUST for your Yorkie or Yorkies, or things for Yorkshire Terriers and other small dogs. You’ll find just about anything you need and more, even things that you can give to people who love yorkies.
It’s that time of the year again when my owners will be sitting outside on the deck watching all the fireworks that are set off around the lake. I am not afraid of fireworks like some dogs, I just bark at them and make sure that my owners are okay after..in fact, I do a lot of barking.
But I know some of my dog friends are very afraid of them. Maybe if it is hot where you are, you can close the windows and put on the air conditioning and play some classical music, it is supposed to be soothing to us dogs. I’m not promising it will work, but it might help depending upon how sensitive your dog is.
Another thing you can do is give a couple drops (amount depends upon the size of your dog) of a remedy that calms nerves, we have a Bach Flower Remedy around the house called Rescue Remedy, a pet version of the Bach Flower Remedy.
I know I get stressed out sometimes. There are some things that really make me nervous, let me tell you about a few:
When my owners are upset or nervous about something, I feel nervous too, because I can sense what they are feeling
I get nervous when I go on trips in the car because I’m afraid my owner is taking me to the groomer
Thunder…actually I get more mad at thunder than afraid of it, when it thunders, I bark a lot, and sit close to my owner to protect her because she is afraid of it.
I hate being left all alone at the house, and even though one of my owners doesn’t work, sometimes I’m alone for long periods of time, that makes me so nervous that I can’t eat.
So what do you do about a nervous dog? You can ask your veterinarian about medications that might be helpful, or if you want to try something natural, we use a couple of drops of Rescue Remedy. My owner says this is a Bach Flower homeopathic remedy that people use specially formulated for pets.
It’s rainy today where we live in the northeast, and sometimes I feel a little more achy on days like that…after all, I’m going on 10 years old. I do pretty well, but can’t jump up on the couch or my owner’s lap without doing a few tries first.
I wonder how it will be later on, though, when I get to be an even older little dog? Will my joints hurt even more? My owner doesn’t like to take me to the vet unless it’s an emergency, and we have had a few of those. It’s expensive, though, and anything that they offer for you to buy at the vet costs a lot of money, so she does her best to find good deals on things to take care of me.
She just asked me if she could tell you about something she just found, glucosamine for dogs. She said people take this for their joints, and so can dogs. It actually has a way of rebuilding and repairing the worn out cartilage in the joints. Do you know what cartilage is? I love chicken, but can’t eat the bones. When you take the meat off the bones the next time, take time to look at the leg bones…you’ll notice that at the ends of each leg bone joint, there is a smooth, white covering, that is the cartilage, the part that makes the joints move against each other smoothly. When it wears down, there is pain, and that’s where glucosamine comes in. My owner knows all these big words because she’s a nutritionist.
If you visit the links in this post, you’ll find that there is a great sale going on while supplies last, and sales are important with the economy the way it is these days…at least that’s what the humans around me are saying. You can buy a bottle of Osteo Pet and get another one free, that’s a whole lot better than what you would pay at the Veterinarian. OH, and the shipping is free, too!
We’ve done a brand new page on natural pet remedies, you’ll find it in the list under “pages” in the right column.
I have some allergies from the tree pollen, and the fleas and ticks are all over, so thought it would be good to share an article like this. Hope you like it!
, it helps a lot.
It’s rainy today where we live in the northeast, and sometimes I feel a little more achy on days like that…after all, I’m going on 10 years old. I do pretty well, but can’t jump up on the couch or my owner’s lap without doing a few tries first.
