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  • Poisonous Plants And Your Pets

    Regardless of whether you live in an apartment or a multi-bedroom house, part of making a home your own is wanting to create an atmosphere that suits your personality. Besides just filling it with a couple of couches, a bed, and a handful of appliances, we want our homes to be places where we can find refuge from the daily grind and just get away ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by blogmaster on October 1, 2008

  • Arlington Va. Bans Venomous Snakes

    Residents of one Arlington Va. neighborhood are sleeping a little more peacefully thanks to a ban on keeping venomous snakes as pets. According to Fox News, for the past five years Peter Nguyen has been keeping several deadly reptiles in his garage and causing quite a stir for his neighbors. Residents all around Nguyen have been complaining for ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by blogmaster on June 4, 2008

  • Tainted Food Law Suits Almost Complete

    According to law.com the lawyers for both Menu Foods and the plaintiffs are close to making a deal.    ''New Jersey's federal district has been made the venue for litigation charging that contaminated food caused death or injury to pets, and attorneys on both sides say a settlement could be a few weeks away. On Feb. 19, the ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on March 13, 2008

  • Spring is in the air........

    Today was such a beautiful day for me to enjoy outside and to start planning my garden for the year.  I recently moved to a new place and have lots of work to do in the gardens.  I also have 4 cats that I have to be careful of when I plan.  I thought I would find some information on the SPCA poison website and other sites to pass ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on February 13, 2008

  • Tainted food companies indicted yesterday!!!!

    Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted Wednesday in the tainted pet food incidents that killed dozens of animals last year and raised worries about products made in China.Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light Industrial Products, Arts and Crafts I/E Co., and Las Vegas-based Chemnutra Inc. ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on February 7, 2008

  • Turtle watch.....

    I just read about this on the MSNBC website.  Although owning pet turtles has been banned many children and some adults are still getting salmonella poisoning from pet turtles.  ''Contact with small pet turtles was to blame for 103 Salmonella infections that occurred in 33 states between May and December 2007, according to federal ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on February 5, 2008

  • Valentine's Day......

    Valentine' s Day usually means chocolate and an increase in chocolate poisonings in pet.  And the better the chocolate the more poisonous it can be. Larger amounts of chocolate, particularly of the most toxic type, can bring about epileptic seizures in some dogs, and in all dogs, can kill. Poisoning of dogs by chocolate is not as uncommon as ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by bloglady on February 5, 2008

  • Mercury....a fishy poison

    We have heard about the possiblitlity of mercury levels in fish being too high for human consumption but it could be a problem for our furry friends as well.  The following news from the Discovery Channel is alarming.  ''Alaskan sled dogs live in one of the world's most pristine environments, but a new study has revealed the ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on September 12, 2007

  • Artificial Sweeteners can be deadly

    Yes we all probably have them in our house but did you realize that the popular sweetener Xylitol that is safe for human's can be toxic and often lethal when consumed by dogs?  Xylitol is in everything from gum to some yogurts.  Once a dog has ingested the Xylitol the dog will rapidly produce insulin which in turn quickly reduces the ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on September 11, 2007

  • Trespassing.....be kind to your neighbor's

    The following story from A-channel news in Victoria raises a good point:  ''Trespassing Feline Caught in Trap VICTORIA - A man living in Victoria's Fernwood neighborhood is furious after his cat was trapped by a neighbor. Owen Bradley says his three year old cat Lola was captured on Tuesday and released at Cattle Point in Oak ...
    Posted to The PetSource Blog - Scribbles 'n Bits (Weblog) by lorrainehug on August 17, 2007
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