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ATTENTION:
Grooming will be closed on these upcoming dates for cleaning and renovations.
Tuesday, November 6th
Wednesday, November 7th
We will re-open Thursday, November 8th with normal business hours. Sorry for any inconvenience! |
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Attention Daycare Customers!
IF you have visited the dog park or any other daycare or boarding facilities in the past 4-5 days, you must wait at least 4-5 days from the last interaction period your dog has had there. IF after this quarantine period, your dog has not shown any signs of having the virus (Coughing/Hacking, excessive sneezing, runny nose, eye discharge) or any other signs of other illness' such as vomiting, runny stool, lethargy etc., then you may return to our facility for daycare.
Everyone that comes here to Muddy Paws Daycare and Boarding is required to have up to date bordatella shots. The strand of kennel cough flu that is going around seems to be a new strand that for some dogs, is not prevented by the vaccine. Having the vaccine does seem to lessen the recovery time and severity of the flu, but remember, it does not prevent it.
We have talked with many vets and other daycare/boarding facilities in the Hampton Roads area, and this strand of Kennel Cough has been reported to be hitting everywhere. We hope that by shutting down our daycare facility last week and having put our boarders in a quarantine period while viciously cleaning, Muddy Paws will stay flu free.
Thank you for your cooperation!
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Dear Friend,
 This month's newsletter is geared around the Thanksgiving Holiday and our upcoming alerts. Everyone will be receiving a BONUS newsletter in a couple days that will have an additional coupon for even more savings. Please focus your attention on our Daycare/Boarding and Grooming alerts, they will affect many of your dogs! Be careful this Thanksgiving, and have a wonderful Holiday season! Keep your eyes open, this bonus newsletter is one you won't want to miss! |
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Thanksgiving Safety for Animal Companions
Before sharing some of your Thanksgiving feast with your oh-so-deserving companion animals, think about having to spend the night or possibly the next day waiting in a line to see the vet on one of their busiest day's of the year.
Indulging ourselves in a rich, fatty meal on occasion may not do much but give us a heavy, possibly upset stomach, but for our furry family members it is much more detrimental. The fatty contents in your meal such as cooked turkey, gravy, and potatoes can cause painful gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhea, or worse, a potentially fatal case of pancreatitis in your dog.
Avoid giving them any table scraps, make sure your leftovers are unreachable or contained, be sure to take our your trash right away, and discard of any strings used to tie up turkey or ham since they can twist up the
digestive track if injested. As stated in last month's issue, you want to completely avoid giving them any kind of cooked bones. Even if chewed up, they are soft and will splinter off in the digestive track which can cause choking or major internal injury.
In some cases, having lots of friends and family over can become a stressful situation and overwhelm our animals causing them to become anxious or even snappy. It's a good idea to provide them with a safe, quiet place they can retreat to if needed. This can also help with the temptation on our part and theirs to indulge in the human feast.
The good news is there are pleanty of safe Thanksgiving related food and treat products you can offer your animal companion that will make them feel like part of the celebration as well as satisfy their cravings. Our favorite is Merrick's Thanksgiving Day Dinner canned food for dogs and cats available here at Muddy Paws. Adding a portion of this to their regular dry food (one can is equal to one cup of dry to make sure reduce an equivalant amount of dry food), along with some pumpkin and ginger formula made by Fruitables (to ensure that they dont get an upset tummy from the tasty addition) will be sure to make them feel like they have gotten right in on the action. As for a treat you can give them a raw marrow bone, (also carried here at Muddy Paws) which are almost identical to the bones you might be cooking, but at no risk to their health.
Vegetarians beware! Although you are not cooking up meat or bones, the fat content in faux meat (although less than that in animal meat) is still too high for our animal companions to safely eat. Many of those products are high in soy, wheat gluten, and by-products which are all unsafe but very tempting. Aside from un-meat products much of the produce we cook with can quicky become a death sentence for our dogs. The most dangerous include grapes, rasins, onions and, of course, chocolate. Being aware of where they are at all times an alerting your guests to the above precautions are the best tools to ensure both our two-legged and four-legged friends have a safe and happy holiday
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