Tips For A Healthy Pet By Veterans

Your dog is your four-legged companion, buddy, playmate, partner in walking, footwarmer at night. No doubt, to keep him at the utmost health and playful, you would do anything and everything. So, what are the things that are of real concern for maintaining your pooch's health.

Veterinarian's Tips For Healthy Pets

Many pet parents miss on these essential things though trivial, only to visit vets when their pets fall sick. This comprehensive guide from a vet's desk help you keep your pet healthy and happy. It is not only just providing food, exercising or grooming that can keep your pooch fit and fine but there are those little stuff that add wholesomely in improving and attaining your pet's optimal health.

Tips For Keeping Pets Healthy

1. Pet Food Without Chemicals

Pet food may contain fillers and other chemical preservatives. Choose a pet food sunning chemicals such as ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT. It is better to vary cat diets to cut short their exposure to harmful chemicals like mercury in seafood. Organic food is the better option or you can choose free-range ingredients rather than “by-products.”

2. New Foam Pet Bedding

As pet bedding foam wears away, make sure you replace the older foam bedding with a newer one. It is also essential to replace or reupholster furniture that has exposed or crumbling foam. This prevents choking incidents as most likely pets are inclined to chewing.

3. Use HEPA-filter Vacuum

To limit the population of fleas and ticks, as well as control toxic add up in the home environment, always vacuum your house. Vacuuming especially with HEPA-filter fetches better result avoiding the buildup of allergans. Furthermore, try to take off shoes at the door (you can have special home sneakers or slippers if you are not comfortable without footwear). This hugely lowers the risk of your pet's exposure to toxic chemicals in the house dust.

4. Pitcher-Filler or a Faucet

Supplying fresh water is necessary to keep your pet well-hydrated in both summers and winters. For safe and clean drinking water for your furry pal, use a faucet or pitcher-filler to fill your pet's water bowl.

 

5. Organic Gardening

Most Americans use insecticides for treating and maintaining lawns. For a pollutant free environment as well as healthy you and your pet, cut down on insecticides. Using organic methods, you can take care of your lawn. These insecticides used in the lawn may cause nervous system damage in pets that play and walk on the treated lawn, eat the grass or breathe the chemicals.

6. Biodegradable, Compostable doo-bags

While going on dog walks, remember to take doo bags along with you. Purchase bio-degradable, compostable doo-bags for your pooch. If possible, just reuse bags like plastic newspaper wrappers.

7. Safer Flea and Tick treatments

Some flea collars and treatments are loaded with chemicals. In spite of using these products, look for alternative flea control treatments that are authentic and superior quality. Along with using safer flea and tick medications, regularly vacuum your house, wash pet bedding and bathe your pet.

8. Non-Toxic Pet Grooming Products

Before buying pet grooming products, always read ingredients labels and safety measures. Avoid buying products without ingredients and “caution or warning” labels. Some harmful ingredients to check in the label are paraben, PEG, Urea or Fragrance.