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GIVE THE GIFT OF HEALTH!

With this year of tightening budgets for many, we are offering a way to give a wonderful and helpful gift to family and friends whose beloved pets hold such an important place in their lives.

This holiday season, with a Pet Wellness Gift Certificate you can literally give the gift of a special pet's health & wellness! Your gift can help someone special to

• Put a stop to frequent and costly visits to the veterinarian!
• Start a new puppy or kitten off right!
• Gain a better understanding of a special adopted pet!
• Help an older four legged friend get back to feeling like his/her old self!

Pet Wellness Resource Center will send a gift card to the person of your choice with an enclosed gift certificate for a Pet Wellness Consultation. The gift will be signed in your name with the option of including a personal message from you. 

Orders intended to arrive in time for Christmas must be received by Dec 20, 2008. The option of gift certificate via email attachment is also available and can also be guaranteed for Christmas delivery if received by Dec 20.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season!
Deb Silke, Director
Pet Wellness Resource Center

More Tips For a Pet Safe Holiday...

In our November newsletter we shared some great tips for a pet safe holiday. To see them again click here. This month we'd like to mention a few more things to be aware of now that the holiday season is in full swing.

• Tinsel and garlands can cause serious obstructions internally when ingested by pets (and small children too!).  When decorating it's wise to locate the following decorations in places well out of reach of your pets and small children. Locating them higher on the tree is a great idea!
  Tinsel • Garlands • Glass ornaments • Any edible decorations
  
  
• We also secure our Christmas tree to the nearest wall to keep curious critters from bringing the whole thing down for a closer look. To do this, screw the appropriate size eye bolt into the nearest wall and thread it with a wire long enough to reach and secure it to the trunk of your tree.
  
  
• Remember that new plants in the home are an automatic attraction to many pets and small children... as beautiful and festive as they are, our traditional Christmas plants are all poisonous to pets and children if ingested. Plants to place out of reach and maybe even eliminate in the home during holidays are: Poinsettia • Holly with berries • Mistletoe
  
  
• Jackets and purses are a great place for pets to find candy and gum…candy and gum that contain the artificial sweetener Xylitol can be seriously toxic to pets when eaten so keep outerwear and purses in a safe place where they cannot be searched by you pets.
  

Brown Bag Lunch Events

Through the end of the year Pet Wellness is making a limited number of special lunch engagements to benefit  pet owners at your workplace.

As the director of Pet Wellness Resource Center, I will share with you our proven,  simple and effective ways to keep your pets healthy and happy while permanently eliminating unnecessary veterinary visits and and hefty vet bills!

Click here now to learn more!

A Little Guidance Goes a Long Way!

Over the past few years, conversations about the benefits to pets of a healthy diet have finally become mainstream enough to be generating well written articles about it in publications such as Animal Wellness Magazine, BARK Magazine and Whole Dog Journal to mention a few. Then there's the internet where we are required to navigate a daunting maze of information, much of which can be frustratingly contradictory. Wonderful tool that it is, there is so much diversity of opinion about what is and isn't good for your pets that a pet owner enthusiastic for change can sometimes want to give up before they have even started.

So, in this issue of our newsletter I'd like to offer a few calming and clarifying words to those of you who may have considered removing your pets from a diet of commercial pet food but have some concerns about doing so. Be assured that we know our subject; the following information is based in science and on the results of our many years of experience.

At the many health and pet expos Pet Wellness Resource Center has attended, pet owners come into our booth at every event excited to share the stories of increased health, vitality and recovery from illness in their pets after a healthful change in diet.

But we also hear from those pet owners who have had less positive experience switching their pets to healthier foods, who have after a short time resumed the feeding of commercial pet food because they felt that real foods "just didn't work for my dog (or cat)." Fact: Real food always works. The methods of preparation and feeding are usually wherein lay the problems.

Following are examples I have heard that convinced some pet owners that a diet of real foods would not work for their pet. Further discussion has always revealed the reasons these folks did not have a positive experience with their attempts to feed their pets 'real' foods.

When we remember that real food is what pets ate before the sale of pet food became a multi billion dollar industry, it all makes better sense.

"I didn't have time to cook for my pets."
Luckily for us, it is now scientifically proven that though home cooked foods are tasty and certainly a huge step up nutritionally from commercial pet food, uncooked foods are far superior for their health benefits. Remember, our pets are animals... and left to their own devices they would never be found cooking up a meal... raw foods are 'species appropriate.' That simply means that it is what nature intended so, no cooking necessary! (Read more...)

Book of the Month

"Please Can We Keep the Donkey?" - By Diane Sullivan and Holly Vietzke; Forward written by Betty White

Since this is a favorite 'feel good' season for many of us as well as a time for gift giving, we are highlighting a very special book this month.  

Please, Can We Keep the Donkey? features dozens of personal accounts of successful animal adoptions and rescues. These entertaining stories describe rewarding relationships with animals ranging from dogs and cats to birds, a snake, and, of course, a donkey.

Meet a rabbit who is an architect, dogs too ugly to pet, an orphaned cat who bonds with an orphaned girl, an unruly dog who brings aid to senior citizens, and many other animals whose lives have changed the people who took them in. These delightful and heartwarming stories of individuals who find each other and bring joy to one another's lives pose the question that one contributor asks: "Who rescued whom?" (Read More...)

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