Our shop will be closed October 26-November 1, no 24/7 pickup will be available October 26-November 1 (around 1:30pm hopefully), and October 28 will be a "skip" week for Obedience classes (classes resume November 4).

Our next expected closure dates are:
 November 20-21, 2011

January 26-February 6, 2012 (tentative)

Future exceptions, for your planning purposes, are always posted on our website, under "Contacts" (scroll down).   And we always put it on our outgoing phone message, when the shop is closed. Just call our shop (907-790-3647) to check, and listen to the outgoing message.

The Honest Kitchen has just introduced two new teas, and two new foods. 

Quiet Tea is for calming pets (dogs and cats). (This might be especailly helpful during Halloween time and activities!)  Easy Peesy is for urinary tract support (dogs and cats).  The teas can be made into a tea, or added to your pet's food (allow time to hydrate).  Free samples will be available at our shop and at the Pet Festival.

"Love" is the new dog food of dehydrated, hormone-free Beef, grain free, gluten free, for all life stages. 

"Grace" is the new dehydrated adult maintenance cat food, cage free turkey, grain free, gluten free.

 Dr. Becker, DVM, from Mercola Pets has a video clip on how to perform a home physical exam on your pet.

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/

2009/11/07/how-to-perform-a-home-physical-exam-on-your-pet.aspx

You may have to cut and paste the entire URL to get it to work.

1. Interactive puzzles again, for your dog to try out;
2. Taste tests for them to check out new foods and products;
3. Interactive play balls;
4. Make your own Pawprint stationary.

We will be doing demonstrations (we think around 11:30am) of: 

1. Thundershirts
2. ComfortFlex Harnesses
3. 7/1 Leash
4. PupLight
5. Interactive puzzles
6. Play Ball!
7. Taste tests

FREE food/treat samples at our booth!  Stop by and pick some up!

 Adding to our resources that we use with our Boarding and Day Care dogs, is another series of CD's, specifically designed to reduce noise phobias in dogs.  We had the pleasure of meeting Lisa Specter (left), and Joshua Leeds (right) at the recent APDT (Association of Pet Dog Trainers) Conference in San Diego. Lisa and Joshua created the "Through a Dogs Ear" series of calming/relaxation CD's for dogs, that has been so successful. (We use those, too.) 

They joined up in a cooperative venture with Victoria Stilwell to create this series of CD's for:

• Thunderstorms  
• Fireworks
• City Sounds
• Calming

CNP (Canine Noise Phobia) is a desensitization training tool that combines three distinctive elements for the treatment and prevention of sound sensitivities: 

• progressive sound effects (distant/close) 
• specially-designed psychoacoustic music (TaDE) 
• reward-based reinforcement protocols (Victoria Stilwell)