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Toxic or Non-Toxic: Can Everything Harm Your Pet?

Toxic or Non-Toxic: Can Everything Harm Your Pet?

  As we transition into discussions on multiple ingredient toxins such as household cleaners, synthetic versus natural, safe plants, and other Spring/Summer poisons, I want to touch on the topic of toxicity.

The word “toxic” is misleading

There is no substance on the planet that will not make your pet sick if ingested in a high enough quantity, (not even water)!  Even the oxygen we breathe does…

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Is your home cleaner safe, non-toxic, and #PawNatural?

Is your home cleaner safe, non-toxic, and #PawNatural? #sponsored

This post is sponsored by Only Natural Pet® and the BlogPaws® Pet Influencer NetworkTM to help spread the word about Only Natural Pet, but Tossed Cookies only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers. Only Natural Pet is not responsible for the content of this article.

We are curious about this new cleaner we’ve found!

It must be kismet! By a large margin, the toxicity of chemical…

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How to do a confident nail trim on dogs and cats!

How to do a confident nail trim on dogs and cats!

Let’s face it: nail trims are scary!

Credit for the image goes to Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center.

A few days ago, I fielded a question from someone who was frightened to try nail trims at home out of concern that he’d nip the quick.  He wanted to know if there was a sure way to perform a nail trim without cutting the quick and hurting his dog. This is a big concern for owners,…

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Are you afraid to clip your cat's claws?

Are you afraid to clip your cat’s claws?

Here’s for all of us cat lovers out there!

Since gluing nail caps to claws is a two person job in our household, we’d like to thank petful.com, vetmed.wsu.edu, ep.yimg.com, hubpages.com, and commons.wikimedia.org for use of their awesome claw pictures!

You can obtain soft nail caps for cats on Amazon Smile (where a portion of the proceeds goes to the charity of your choice), at PetSmart, and from…

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Afraid to clip your dog's nails?

Afraid to clip your dog’s nails?

Today I have an infographic for you! Consider it a teaser for a full article discussing clipping nails at home.

Because clipping my own dog’s nails is a two-person job at our house, I’d like to thank denherdvet.com, dogchannel.com, luvakis.com, wikihow.com, and youtube.com for use of their accurate photographs!

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Mushrooms and Macadamia Nuts: Yummy Dangers

Mushrooms and Macadamia Nuts: Yummy Dangers

With our Ms done today, we will be halfway through the alphabet!  When I started this, I wanted to do one post a day on a letter of the alphabet, but I underestimated how much time compiling these posts would take!  We may be down to one a week, but we’re still chugging along!  For Springtime, I wanted to include something your pets get outside – mushrooms. Macadamia nuts are also extremely…

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We have our Winners!

We have our Winners!

And our lucky winners are …

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Fuzzy.love: Branded short links for pet websites

Branded short links – Yay or Nay?

Ladies and gentleman, fellow pet lovers, pet bloggers, and pet websites:

A short time ago, I purchased the domain name of Fuzzy.love to start using my own branded short links through a pet-friendly domain name (fuzzylove sounded so much sweeter than Bitly). So my tweets, facebook posts/shares will all contain my page posts shortened to fuzzy.love/PostName.

Afte…

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Safety Saturday: Dolly the Doxie and Sandra

Join us for our first #SafetySaturday where we speak with Dolly the Doxia and Sandra about dogs who eat stuff!

Welcome to Safety Saturday!

What is Safety Saturday, you ask?  Well, as pet owners, we all know how difficult it can be to own a pet.  Between vaccines and other preventative cares, choosing the right food, grooming, medications, supplements, behavior control and training, adequate exercise, poop patrol, choosing the safest cleaning products, and so on – keeping an eye on and keeping track of…

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Pet Food Contamination: Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria

Pet Food Contamination: Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria

  Having discussed the basics of a raw food diet and the non-bacterial dangers that lie within, we’re prepared to dive into the topic of bacteria.  All pet foods can be contaminated by bacteria, though we do see a higher instance of it in raw foods due to improper food handling.  I’ve rambled on enough that I h ad to make another article out of my intro, so let’s just get into the good stuff!

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Raw Pet food: Dangers and Benefits

Raw Pet food: Dangers and Benefits

In our last article in our pet food safety series, we discussed a few dangers of packaged dry food contamination.  Today, we’re going to be covering the dangers and benefits of raw pet food. This extends to both the pre-packed raw diets provided by companies, and the raw diets made at home by owners.  My intent is to make it clear that there are dangers in both options, not to state that raw…

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Pet Poisons: Learn about Lithium Ion and Lead

Pet Poisons: Learn about Lithium Ion and Lead

  I know I have this awful habit of getting distracted from my ABCs by other posts.  But today, we’re back to our module-type learning with Lithium Ion Batteries and Lead. These are both extremely interesting substances, so buckle your seat belts for some abnormal signs from these guys!

Lithium ion batteries are not like alkaline batteries!

These button batteries do not contain the caustic…

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My dog ate chocolate, so why isn't he sick?

My dog ate chocolate, so why isn’t he sick?

Don’t do this at home!

“My dog ate chocolate.”  These are the most common words every toxicologist hears.

I know I said I wouldn’t write about chocolate because the vast majority of pet owners were already aware of the dangers in giving it to their pets.  That was before I found an awesome online chocolate calculatoravailable to the general public that estimated your dog’s risk level based on…

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Which human medications are safe for pets?

Which human medications are safe for pets?

Which of my medications are safe for pets?

Safe over-the-counter (OTC) medications are a bit of a hot topic among pet parents. Veterinary formulas are often far more expensive than their pharmacy “counterparts”, and many pet parents want to help their pets at home with minor illnesses without having to visit a vet.

But are any of these medications truly safe for pets? In some cases, dosing your…

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Glow Pet Portraits for purchase!

Glow Pets Portraits for Purchase!

Now Selling Glow Pet Portraits!

Low Contrast White Glow Pet

 High Contrast High Color Glow Tiger

Thanks to Art G. for the stock photo!

Converting a blurry photo into fractalized motion!

Glow Horses are beautiful no matter the medium!

Thanks to Wikipedia for the stock image!

High Contrast Glow Pet with dark points (ears, nose, tail, feet)

Fluffy Glow Pet Bunnies!

Thanks to Jannes Pockele…

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