Did you know that the heavier your pet is the faster they age? It’s true. If a pet is more than 90 pounds, they are often considered senior at just 5 years old. And a super senior pet, so called geriatric pets? Cats tend to be considered geriatric at approximately 14 years old or as [...]

Sure, we’ve probably all fed our pet’s table scraps in the past. Unfortunately, table scraps and human food are not fit products for a pet’s consumption. The manner in which we cook, or don’t cook, our food makes it particularly unfit for our pet’s very different digestive system. Additionally, most human food simply does not [...]

With senior pet month just around the corner, PetAg has dedicated the blogs from the month of August to our senior pet companions, and ways to help them. As our pets age, their bones and joints naturally follow suit. While we all wish our bodies would follow the youth of our minds, and surely this [...]

Pets are so much like their human companions in so many ways; it is surprising for many of us. As with pregnant or older human adults, calcium and bones are a decided concern. When pregnant, the babies will sometimes pull the needed calcium from their mother’s bones. (The things we do for our babies!) It [...]

So, you’ve take the step to become a pet parent. Whether you have adopted, rescued, or are in actuality “grandma and grandpa” to your pet’s babies, you now have at least 4 new little feet scampering around, and at least one more mouth that needs to be fed. If this is your first foray into [...]

Even though we are now quickly moving into the autumn, many parts of the country are still struggling under record breaking heat. This heat has much the same affect on pets as on their human companions, sapping the energy out of them and making their movements sluggish and tired. Of course, there are many things [...]

Perhaps one of the most frustrating things for new pet parents is training your new little one that the floor is not the appropriate repository for his or her bodily functions. There are many methods proffered on the internet for how one should house train his or her pet, but there seems to be a [...]

Many of us have been with our pets from birth or at least infancy, so it is hard to imagine that they will get older and not be as rambunctious as they were when they were chewing up your shoes, or eating your newspaper, or using the laundry as a personal pee-pee pad. But age [...]

We must give equal attention to our feline friends, and seeing as we have just done a post on helping your older dog ease into his or her senior life; it is only fair to give some tips to those pet owners who have a cat. They are, after all, a significant portion of the [...]