Socializing your kitten needs to take place early in his/her life, during the first 2-7 weeks. As the ASPCA tells us, a kitten should be handled by humans and learn to live in our world. A kitten needs to be comfortable with different people, sights, sounds, noise, smells, other cats, dogs and other animals. The […]
When dogs growl, they are communicating their feelings. Growling means that something is upsetting them and they are trying to let you know what it is. Our first instinct is to punish the dog for this behavior. After all, how dare our best friend threaten the hand that feeds and pets him. But if we […]
Extinction is part of the natural order. As long as plants and animals have existed on earth, species have become extinct and replaced by others. For this reason, it is not obvious to everyone why we should spend resources and money trying to save endangered species. When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, […]
