Pet Health

My cat Cleo is ten years old and she is finally beginning to slow down after a lifetime of relentlessly chasing little pink mice all over the house. But I don’t want her to slow down too much.

I just brought my wonderful cat, Waldo, back from his annual physical and my vet says he’s fat!  Well, she used the word obese, like that would be easier to hear, but I am still embarrassed.  She said I should try to help him lose weight, but how?

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Dear Porky & Buddy, I thought I had heard everything, but yesterday, my next door neighbor told me that he brushes his dog’s teeth. When I started to laugh, he got all huffy and tried […]

Dear Porky & Buddy, I just adopted a new cat, Cleo, from the Humane Society. When I went to pick her up at her foster home, she was lounging on the kitchen counter, and I […]

Dear Porky & Buddy, My neighbor has a Husky mix, Roscoe, who stays outside most of the time. His “house,” if you could call it that, is a tacky ramshackle box with plywood walls and […]

Dear friends, It’s time for our annual “Quit Picking on Poinsettias” column. The bottom line, in spite of what some websites and “experts” claim, they are not poisonous to humans or to pets. In the […]

Dear Readers, Full disclosure here. It’s a cat eat rat world. But that doesn’t mean that rats aren’t interesting creatures—both delicious and interesting. We were listening to NPR this morning. (Yes we were pretending to […]

Dear Porky and Buddy, I have been reading about the statistics on the numbers of cats and dogs that have to be euthanized every year because there is no room for them in shelters and […]