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Every year around the first week of February, the daylight starts getting this warm yellowy glow (I'm not sure if it's real or imagined) and something in my brain tells me that it's spring. Regardless of the fact that it's still only 20 degrees on the thermometer outside my kitchen window, I start wearing coats and footwear that are ill-matched to the weather. I measure the receding edges of snow melt daily with my eyes. Unless we have a major blizzard, I resist clearing all new snow from around my home convinced that in a few short days it will just melt away. I experience with mixed emotions the newly visible trash that's been hiding in snowbanks on city streets, but my heart leaps at the song of returning black capped chickadees and their voices that chickadeedeedee their way through every East Coast summer. I can barely resist the temptation to put the polar fleece away! But it couldn't be just my imagination. Penzi in her thirteenth year is happy to stay out on the deck and lounge in the new sunny patches on the south side of the house. We have already both tracked a little mud into the kitchen. Suddenly I realize that we have sidewalks again where there were mountains of frozen snow for what seemed forever this year. Tomato and cucumber flats can't be that far ahead. The house birds will return to their fair weather cages on the deck and the cats to their big outdoor cabana. Penzi will take over her sister's job of tracking ants and snapping at summer bees. And when steamy July comes round, I'll be remembering how we used to save snowballs in my mother's freezer so that we could longingly remember winter. Happy Almost Spring! Deb Silke, Director New! Our Pet Wellness Transition Program: Put an end to costly veterinarian visits! I hear repeatedly that people are very interested in improving their pets' diets, but are stymied by all the contradictory information they get from their veterinarians, friends and the internet. At Pet Wellness Resource Center I am constantly striving to make our services easy to use, accessible to people everywhere and affordable in the grand scheme of pet health care. Our newest program is another step in all of those directions. In response to the above, I have chosen from the best parts of our Pet Wellness Services and created the Pet Wellness Transition Program! You can now sign up for a single, easy to follow program that will safely and comfortably transition your pet from a diet of commercial pet food to healthy, natural whole foods, all in a finite period of time. And the new foods will be affordable and require very little preparation!
I have removed 100% of the guesswork, laid out a step by step process for you and your pet to follow and included a series of four
weekly pre-calendared telephone appointments. In addition to that, a Pet Wellness Consultation valued at $125 is included in the cost! Learn more.... A Few Facts Worth Considering About Pet Food
Fact: All of the pet foods you see on the shelves are owned by a handful of huge corporations who are all using the same ingredients from the same suppliers... including the ones who brought you melamine in your pet food in 2007! The biggest difference is in the packaging and the marketing! There are a handful of smaller independent companies who produce cleaner kibble and canned food than the vast majority... however even if the food is cleaner, after the standard processing, the quality it may have possessed before processing is diminished hugely by the processing itself. In short, it may not be toxic but it's hardly food. Fact: Cat food is now being credited with the staggering rise of dental disease and diabetes in cats. Fact: In the 1950's dogs regularly lived into their teens with almost none of the diseases and illnesses we see commonly in our pets today. Today, your veterinarian regards your dog at 7 years old as aging. The majority of dogs today do not live to see ten years of age and experience considerable disease as they approach the end. It is no coincidence that in the 1950's the commercial pet food industry was still in its infancy. Don't miss the next episode of Animal World talk radio! On this coming Saturday Feb 21 we will continue our series devoted to the ongoing national news story on the rescue of the Michael Vick Dogs and their post-rescue disposition. To bring yourself up to date, you may read senior editor Jim Gorant's article The Good News Out of The Bad Newz Kennels in the sports Illustrated issue to the right by clicking here for the full article. You can also listen to a podcast of Gorant's Feb 7 interview on Animal World with Deb Silke by going to Animal World Radio.
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I'm Not Waiting!
I am going to ask you right now as you read on to resist the marketing that has brainwashed pet owners for the last fifty years and has you believing there is a can or a bag of kibble on a shelf somewhere that will give your pet healthy teeth and bones and long life. It is the big lie. Consider the following facts.
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