By Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com
Keep your Pets Safe this Halloween!
I personally love Halloween – always have and now that our pets are more and more involved in the HOWL-o-ween celebrations with pet parades, costume contests, apple and pumpkin picking with our dogs – just love it!
But our pets can be really spooked by the creepy [...]

by Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com
Why is that pet emergencies always seem to happen on the weekend and at night?  Right?  You always hear about some awful story or you have gone through it yourself when you pet is presenting with an emergency and it’s never on a Tuesday at 10am.  A couple weeks ago, my [...]

by Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com
Being prepared for an emergency with your pet:

Have proper ID tags on your dog/cat with your Cell phone # on it.

Make sure if your dog is microchiped  – that the microchip registered with your proper contact information (many people don’t realize this) read our post here “Is your pet’s Microchip registered?“

Have [...]

by Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com
End of summer – pools close down, water parks drain their pools – but wait, why not open them to our DOGS?  I am starting to see this happen more often – last year was the first time I heard of a waterpark in New Jersey opening up to our canines [...]

by Nancy E. Hassel, LIPetPlace.com
Did you know that not all dogs can swim? Most people think that swimming comes naturally to dogs. We have all seen the funny videos of little dogs doing the doggie paddle in the air when held above the bath water by their owners, but that movement doesn’t mean they will [...]