The Love of a pet

A simple, cuddly and highly enjoyable way to improve your health is to have pets.

Research shows that people who have companion animals are healthier, recover faster from serious illness, and tend to be happier than people who don’t care for pets.

Stroking cats or dogs that you love also promotes relaxation.

If you don’t have a pet, consider adopting an animal in need of a loving home or volunteering at a local shelter.

Pet Insurance

Although Pet insurance may be a good idea, before you go out and buy it remember that not all Veterinary clinics ( hospitals) will accept pet insurance. Make sure that your Vet and an emergency vet clinic will accept your pet insurance BEFORE purchasing any insurance.

Dog Facts

Dog Facts

Dogs (and wolves and foxes) are descended from a small, weasel-like mammal called Miacis which was a tree-dwelling creature and existed about 40 million years ago.
Dogs, as we know them today, first appeared in Eurasia about 13,000 years ago, and were probably a direct descendant of a small, grey wolf.
The dingo is not native to Australia but was introduced thousands of years ago by the first immigrants.
Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen in the Palaeolithic age and gradually developed (or were bred) into the breeds known today.

Dogs have been used as guards, hunters, draught animals, eyes for the blind, drug and explosive detectors, rodent controllers - and even weapons!
In Roman times and the Middle Ages, mastiffs wearing light armor, carrying spikes and pots of flaming sulphur and resin ran into battle against mounted knights. In World War II the Russians trained dogs to run suicide missions between the tracks of German tanks with mines strapped on their backs.

Dogs naturally have a wonderful sense of smell. They have many more sensory 'smelling' cells than a man's 5,000,000. A Dachshund has 125,000,000, a Fox Terrier 147,000,000 and an Alsation (often used as a 'sniffer' dog) has 220,000,000.

The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years, 5 months for a Queensland 'heeler' called Bluey in Victoria, Australia. The average dog lives to around 15 years of age.

The tallest dogs are the Great Dane and the Irish Wolfhound.

The average dog's mouth exerts 150 to 200 pounds of pressure per square inch. Some dogs can apply up to 450 pounds.

Puppies can't control their bladders overnight until they are at least four months old. Until then, cover the floor around the puppy's bed with newspapers.

Dogs are omnivorous. They need more than just meat to flourish.

People with more than one dog shouldn't try to treat them all as equals. Because pack position is important to a dog, this only encourages jealousy games.

Dogs chew up your underwear because it smells like you. One in every three US families owns one or more dogs.

A one-year-old dog is physically as mature as a 15 year-old human.

A little something about me.

My name is Natalee. I live in Santa Rosa, California. I have two grown sons and one adorable grandson. I started this page out of the love I have for animals. As a young child growing up, I always knew I wanted to do something special for animals. In my early twenties, I went to work for a well known Veterinarian named Ralph Lewis. He specialized in Total Hip replacements in dogs as well as providing excellent care for large and small animals. I started out as clean up help and handling animals when needed. Very qucikly I worked my way into being one of the top three technicians. I was in heaven! I learned all there was to learn about large animals, as well as small animals. Our clinic treated everything from rats to Buffalo. My love for animals gave me the best job anyone could have. It was so rewarding to know I was making a difference in the lives of all animals. I worked as a Technician for a little over Ten years before changing careers. Although I am not currently working for a Veterinarian, I am still active in helping all animals, large or small through charity work, this web site and educating people about animal care. I hope this site makes you smile and helps you find something that you may have been looking for.  Enjoy and feel free to leave comments or ask me a question. If you have ideas or want to see something in particular, please let me know and I will do my best in adding it to this site.

Thank you for stopping by.

Natalee