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Pets Behaving Badly: Food

by Aimee Amodio

16 Feb 2009 01:01 PM

What's the most outrageous thing your pet has done? That's the question I posed to one of my online pet communities.

An Impractical Solution for Separation Anxiety

by Aimee Amodio

08 Feb 2009 10:28 AM

If you're a regular reader of the Families.com Pets Blog, you may have noticed that my dog Lally has a bit of a nervous personality.

Cats and Fence Fighting

by Aimee Amodio

20 Jan 2009 10:11 AM

I've talked about "fence fighting" before. Also known as redirected aggression, it is a scuffle that breaks out between pets when they see something on the other side of a window or fence.

Dogs and Cats Living Together: Body Language

by Aimee Amodio

19 Jan 2009 10:56 AM

Dogs and cats may not always get along, but it seems they CAN learn to understand each other. Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel took a good long look at canines and felines who share a household. Taken individually, canine and feline body language often has opposite meanings.

Four Pets, Four Reactions to Stress

by Aimee Amodio

09 Jan 2009 02:26 PM

Moving is stressful for humans AND pets. It's been interesting to watch how the animals react as my roommates and I go through the moving process. I have two dogs: Moose (a shepherd mix) and Lally (a boxer mix).

Taking Compliments for Pets

by Aimee Amodio

04 Jan 2009 10:11 AM

Sometimes, I feel a little weird if someone tells me I have a beautiful dog. I usually say "thank you" but to be honest, I had nothing to do with it. Though I think of myself as a pet parent, I didn't actually contribute anything to the creation of my handsome Moose man or my lovely Lally Bee.

Animals Have Emotions, Too

by Courtney Mroch

08 Dec 2008 06:01 PM

Some people like to think animals are just animals. They think animals don't think or feel or have emotions. Oh really? If animals didn't have emotions, would they take orphaned animals in and nurture them as their own? Even when they're different species sometimes.

Who's the Dumb One? You or Your Dog?

by Courtney Mroch

03 Dec 2008 04:00 PM

I have a friend who's convinced her dog's the dumbest dog in the world. She tells the dog that regularly and shakes her head in dismay over "dumb" things he does. I ask her all the time for examples of his dumbness because I have yet to see him do anything dumb.

Rehabilitating Murphy

by Courtney Mroch

29 Nov 2008 03:40 PM

Wednesday morning Murph and I had what's become our ritual two week check up with the vet who operated on his paw. (Since the beginning of October, every two weeks we go in for a progress check.

How Not to Walk Your Dogs

by Aimee Amodio

09 Nov 2008 05:31 PM

I live in a very pet-friendly apartment complex. That's great -- otherwise, I wouldn't have a place where my dogs Moose and Lally are welcome. The complex welcomes dogs of all sizes... I've got a St.



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