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From pet health tips to ideas on fighting boredom and loneliness in pets, you can learn how to make your pets' lives better here.

What a difference a weigh makes: How knowing your pet’s weight can help trim the pounds

Tuesday, Jul 29th, 2014 | By Dr. Marty Becker

Most pet owners with overweight or obese cats and dogs think their pets are at or near their ideal body weight, and therefore aren’t willing to do something about the […]

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5 ways to help your itchy dog

Monday, Jul 28th, 2014 | By Dr. Marty Becker

Is your dog’s itching driving you crazy? Imagine what it’s doing to him! Itching causes real suffering for pets, just as hives or poison oak or ivy do to humans. […]

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What dog owners can do about a urine-spotted lawn

Thursday, Jul 24th, 2014 | By Dr. Marty Becker

How is a dog owner’s lawn like a strip mall? When I used to scout strip centers locations for potential veterinary hospitals, you could tell how busy the mall was […]

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The case against free-feeding your dog

Wednesday, Jul 23rd, 2014 | By Dr. Marty Becker

Leaving food down all the time for your dog may be convenient for you, but it’s deadly for him. There is no bikini season for pets, nor stick-thin dog models […]

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16 interesting tidbits of trivia about all kinds of pets

Tuesday, Jul 22nd, 2014 | By Dr. Marty Becker

I’m insatiably curious about all kinds of things, so when my Pet Connection co-writer Kim Campbell Thornton suggested we tackle pet trivia for our column this week, my only problem […]

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