 While Halloween may be an exciting time for you and your family — costumes, candy, carving — it can be frightening for your Pets.
From ringing doorbells to monster masks, these new sights and sounds can create anxiety for pets. However, when you follow some simple suggestions, you can give your pet a fear-free home to enjoy this Halloween. Costumes Some pets enjoy dressing up, but for others, it may be scary. Your pet’s welfare an safety must be the top priority. If you want to put a Halloween costume on your pet, do a trial run before Oct. 31. Let them sniff and investigate before slowly dressing them. Give them treats during this “dress rehearsal” to create a positive association with the costume. If your pet seems scared (tail tucked, ears back, trembling, whimpering, growling, pulling to get away, etc.), immediately stop and remove the costume. Pets should always be supervised when they are wearing costumes, as the costume itself could be a hazard if they chew/ingest parts of it or get tangled up in it. Candy station option If you’re feeling something different this year, take your treats from the home to the car. To reduce pet stress, cut down on doorbells, knocks, and strangers on your porch by setting up a Halloween candy station in the trunk of your car so kids and visitors stop there instead of creating chaos for your pet. Plus, you can have fun with it and decorate your driveway with spooky spectacles for neighbors to enjoy. Safe place If your pet is normally a 7 on the skittish scale, Halloween will put them at a 15. From scary sights and sounds to creepy costumes, it may be best to give your pet a safe space this Halloween. Set up a comfortable area in your house away from the goings on with their bed, favorite toys, a blanket, an article of your clothing and some treats. MyLap Pet Bed has helped many pets keep a calmer state of mind as it incorporates an article of your clothing that has your scent attached. These safe things and places will help them feel at ease. Save the scares and pranks for your friends When it comes to the Halloween spirit, harmless pranks and scares are all part of the fun, but not for the pets. Pet just do not comprehend pranks. If you’re planning on wearing a scary costume, mask or have spooky decorations, make sure you introduce them to your pet well in advance to get them used to your new look and what’s hiding around the corner. To help, you can give them treats dressed in your Halloween attire, so they associate the costume with a reward. Darting out the door One of the greatest risks at Halloween is having a pet dart outside when you answer the door. Leashes, creates or pre-segregation in a room can help prevent a heartbreaking loss. Candy care As you prepare for trick-or-treaters, make sure you keep candy away from curious pets. Year after year, veterinary emergency clinics are filled with pets that have eaten Halloween candy. Upset bellies, diarrhea, and vomiting are common after a candy binge. Some candy, like chocolate or those containing the sweetener xylitol, can be highly toxic to pets. Editors Note: Some parts of this was researched and referenced from the following article: Tricks And Treats: Bite-sized Tips For A Fun, Safe ... (n.d.). Retrieved from enewscourier.com-news-lifestyles/tricks-and-treats-bite-sized-tips-f MyLap Pet Bed, Pet Bed, Cat Bed, Dog Bed, Kitten Bed, Puppy Bed, Halloween Pet Safety, Halloween, dog, cat, kitten, pet beds
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 Early breast cancer detection saves lives and makes treatment much more manageable. I am very thankful that I went through radiation. Why would anyone be thankful to go through radiation? I will tell you why; chemotherapy is much worse and what's even worse than chemotherapy; death. Going through radiation I used the same dressing room and treatment waiting for area that the chemotherapy patients used, and there were times I felt a sort of survivor's guilt sitting with them. I had good odds, and although cancer is scary, breast cancer stage 1 is not as frightening as 3 or 4, ect. What most of the chemotherapy patients had in common, they waited too long in between mammograms. MyLap Pet Bed design may have come from a bad time, but it helped me find a better place. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, here is the story… The unique pet bed design came to me at one of the lowest points of my life: when I was receiving radiation for breast cancer. After a lumpectomy, I began a long 7-week course of radiation. At just 41 years old, I couldn’t comprehend that this was happening. I kept most of what I was going through to myself, and only some family and a few close friends and co-workers knew what was actually going on. Every day after work, I would go to my radiation treatment and then drive an hour and a half home. My days were long, as the radiation made me so tired and sore. My cat had always slept on, between, or against my legs (you cat parents know what I am talking about), but at that time, I was so sleep-deprived and achy that as much as I loved her, I just wanted her off of me. I needed every bit of restful sleep I could get just to make it through the next day. All I kept thinking was there must be something out there that could simulate my lap for my cat while I could also remain comfortable. I searched every store I could think of and scoured the internet but found nothing like what I was looking for. When I would lay on the radiation table, thinking of the need for a product like MYLAP™ Pet Bed not only gave me a distraction but it also gave me a new purpose. It was then that I decided to begin the process of designing and patenting something that could keep both my cat and I comfortable. There is nothing like a near-death experience to get you off your ass to follow your dream. After I had my prototype made, I began testing it out on my cat and I noticed that my dog, who has every kind of anxiety including separation anxiety, was starting to steal the bed. I realized it calmed him as well, and I began finding him sleeping on it more and more. Even though it was too small for him, he didn’t seem to care one bit! It has been a long road, both in my personal recovery and the journey to launch this product, but I couldn’t be happier that I was able to turn something so devastating into something so positive. It's not always how hard you fall, it's how hard you get up!  |
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