May is Pet Cancer Awareness Month, and to help the Animal Cancer Foundation, Pet Valu is sponsoring a Come Clean for Cancer fundraiser. Pet Valu is a specialty pet product retailer that has stores, many of which include self-serve dog-wash...
Where do those cute puppies you see in the pet stores come from? Most of them come from large dog breeding operations known as Puppy Mills. You've probably heard of these places and heard about the many rescue movements in place to put an end...
Lyme Disease is caused by an organism called Borrelia Burgdorferi, which is carried by Ixodes (Blacklegged) ticks. Dogs living in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Northern California have the greatest risk, but any dog bitten by an Ixodes tick...
There are multiple reasons why your pet should be microchipped.
The state of Tennessee has seen a surge in rabies cases in 2016, including four dogs and one cat dying of the disease. Two skunks and one raccoon also tested positive for rabies. The uptick in rabies cases has the state urging everyone to...
You read that title correctly. Police and firefighters in Port Orange, Florida fought to save a dog stuck in a tree last Friday. Not a cat; a dog!
When a dog owner was walking by with their own pet, they heard the stranded pup whimpering and saw...
One of our whiskerDocs team members has quite the little pet menagerie at home, including 2 dogs, 3 cats, and a house rabbit. The rabbit, however, inspired this post, because even though we focus on dogs and cats here, we have a love of all...