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Welcome to Raising Your Paws!
Podcast & Blog
Live More Happily Together by Knowing:
HOW your pets communicate.
WHY they behave the way they do.
WHAT to do in caring for the canine and feline members of your family.
Susan and Rosy
Latest Episode & Companion Blog Post
Episode #71: Need to Know Advice if You’ve Recently Adopted a Dog and Why We Say Cats Have 9 Lives
Have you ever seen your cat get itself into a dangerous physical situation, that you’re sure is going to kill it, but somehow, they make it out okay? There is the myth that cats have 9 lives, because what else explains the perilous things they do, like leaping madly...
Help for Adjusting To and Training An Adopted Pet – For Both Of You. (Blog #71)
Have you ever seen your cat get itself into a dangerous physical situation, that you’re sure is going to kill it, but somehow, they make it out okay? There is the myth that cats have 9 lives, because what else explains the perilous things they do, like leaping madly into the air or falling hundreds of feet and still live to meow again.
More Recent Episodes & Blog Posts
Episode #67: Add This Cancer Fighting Food to Your Dog’s Bowl & A trick for Getting a Pill into the Cat.
Children are always implored to eat their vegetables. There is someone else in your home that would benefit from eating some fresh veges -it’s your dog. Find out in this episode the one thing to add to your dog’s dinner bowl three times a week that powers up their...
Cats Doing Dog Agility? (Blog #66)
Nonsense you might say! If you are a dog owner who believes that dogs are THE rock stars of agility and would not deign to think that a feline could ever be as good or proficient as a canine or there be any point in the first place, for cats participating in the...
Episode #66: Service Dogs Taught Without Training Commands and Why Cats Are So Agile.
First, I answer a question from a listener – Scott Martin from Highland Park, Illinois asked why cats are so agile with their feet? I go into the juicy details but overall the secret has to do with them needing to be great hunters. Next, there is a newer revolutionary...
What Rocket, NutriSource’s Childrens Hospital Health Care Dog, Did When He Knew A Child Was In Desperate Need. (Blog #65)
Rocket, a Golden Retriever, that works in the M Health Fairview Masonic Children's hospital in Minnesota, due to the generous funding of the program by NutriSource Pet Foods, has skills that go way beyond what therapy dogs do. In this week's episode of the Raising...
Episode #65: A Dog with Extraordinary Skills Helping Children & Reassurances about Cats and Covid-19.
We have a new logo for the podcast! You’ll see it appearing on all the podcast apps and soon on the Raising Your Paws website. Let me know what you think of it at susan@raisingyourpaws.com. Have you heard about the zoo wild cats or domestic cats overseas that are...
A Dog With A Very Unusual Job Description (Blog #64)
NutriSource Pet foods, the company that presents the Raising Your Paws podcast, financially helped the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital add a new full time employee to their staff – a full time facility dog named Rocket.
Episode #64: How a Canine Hospital Staff Member Helps Children & What To Do First, After Adopting or Fostering a New Pet.
Fostering of pets is on the rise. All over the country, animal shelters have been putting out calls for community foster homes and people are responding. Adoptions are up as well. If you are thinking of fostering or adopting or have recently done so, I’ll discuss a...
Worried about your pets and Covid-19? Here Are Reassurances. (Blog #63)
Having access to and getting accurate information is so important right now, to help deal with all the questions you might have regarding Covid-19, yourself, and your pets. There are many sources of good, factual information appearing on the web, to calm your fears...
Episode #63: Reassurances About Pets and COVID-19 & The Benefits of CBD Oil From a Vet
If your dog ever gets an expression on its face that looks like they are smiling, I’d like you to send a photo of that to me. I’ll post a number of smiling dog photos on one of the blog posts on the Raising Your Paws website and your dog will receive a large free bag...
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