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...
No one ever wants to hear the word cancer, and facing cancer in dogs and cats is especially painful. Unfortunately, dogs and cats get many of the same cancers that humans get. Cancer is the most common cause of death in pets. We now know that...
I was taking my dogs for a walk the other day. It was a beautiful spring day with the sun shining, birds chirping, and flowers in bloom. And then it started... that overwhelming need to sneeze! Rusko has been sneezing all week, and now, me too....
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...