Leo, KC

Scat Mat is a touch sensitive training pad which say “No”, when you can’t.

It quickly teaches pets to avoid prohibited areas with harmless, low-power electronic pulses similar to static electricity. Place the flexible vinyl Scat Mat in a room entrance, on your sofa, counter top or the hood of your car. The touch sensitive pad will silently protect prohibited areas from trespassers.

When touched, the battery sends small pulses to the mat for 3 seconds. These surprising little ‘zaps’ quickly repel most animals who usually stay away after one or two exposures – even after the mat is removed.

Place it under untouchable objects, across doorways, on furniture, around Christmas trees or trash cans, on top of car hoods — anywhere that you want to discourage your pets or someone else’s pets from touching.

Scat Mat Features:

* Scat mats are powered by battery, so they can be used anywhere. (Most use one 9 volt alkaline battery – not included)

* The best mats have adjustable power settings: appropriate deterrence sensations for varying sized pets. You can train kittens at Low; cats at Medium; adult dogs and long haired cats on High.

* The training Indicator light blinks to tell you how many times the scat mat has been contacted since it was last turned on. No blinks means your pet is avoiding it consistently. With just a short training, the pet will be discouraged from getting near the forbidden object out of habit.

* Up to 6 extension mats can be connected to the powered scat mat to economically increase the number and/or size of the areas you wish to cover.

* Each mat (not extension mat) has an outlet to accept an optional adapter (sold separately) to convert to A/C current.

* You can put whole rooms off limits, keep your pets in a confined area, or keep your pets off of one piece (or several pieces) of furniture.

For larger pets who might jump across the original scat mat, see the new Pawz Away scat mat. It will make you, and your pet, a believer!

Drawing up a plan of action should really be the first thing you do when preparing for training a puppy, as it will help a great deal in relocating a young dog or puppy from his familiar surroundings to the new and strange world you are providing for him. It is a very stressful and worrying event for a puppy when his mother and littermates suddenly disappear, and he finds himself in new and unfamiliar surroundings with completely alien smells and faces to get used to.

And it’s not just puppies and young dogs. Even adult dogs are somewhat bewildered by everything new that happens to them when they get relocated. Regardless of their age, your new dog has no idea what awaits in his future; he’ll just notice that his friends are gone and he doesn’t recognize anything.

Although it is not always possible, take a few trips to meet your pup while he’s still at his “old place”. He will already know you this way when he moves in with you. This will mean that when you start to learn about, train a puppy he’ll learn a lot quicker as he’ll already be friends with you. If you really can’t fit in a few visits, perhaps you will be able to take something from the dog’s former home with you – like a blanket or toy of some kind or just something that will remind him of home and survive the feeling of having nothing familiar in his life.

The perfect time to bring your new dog home is at a time when you’re going to be at home for a few days to help him settle in and get to know you. A holiday period is perfect. But you do need to be at home with your dog during the holidays. He’ll settle down a lot quicker if you’re there with him 24-7. Being there for him in those first few days will help him settle in and go a long way to beating his home sickness and stress of leaving his friends.

In the same way that we humans make preparations for a new baby, by creating a checklist of things to do and equipment to buy, training puppies should be no different. Having a different number of legs shouldn’t mean you get less priority.

Saltwater Fishing

Parvo vaccinations have long been accepted as a vital precaution in preventing your dog from being infected by the Canine Parvovirus, and yet our research and experience with our own customers highlights three major things that your vet probably isn’t telling you.

First Of All, almost all vaccinations being used now are no longer protecting dogs against the latest 2c strain of Parvo.

This 2c strain, which came to light in the USA in 2006 (although Europe and other parts of the world experienced it even longer ago than that), is a lot more aggressive and fast-acting than the older 2a and 2b strains.

For example, we had one customer, in the state of Washington, whose dog first showed Parvo symptoms on a Sunday morning, and by late that same afternoon, it was dead.

As time goes on, we are finding an increasing number of customers who have adult dogs, as well as puppies, that are fully-vaccinated and that are contracting Parvo and are dying from it, unless they are treated in time.

Until recently, only Intervet manufactured vaccines that had been 100% challenge-tested against the 2c strain, but we’ve now found at least one customer whose dogs were vaccinated using their products, and yet still contractedParvo.

The message you need to take away from this is that no dog is safe – it doesn’t matter whether it’s a puppy or an adult, or whether it’s been vaccinated or not.

Secondly, and we know this sounds counter-intuitive, but dogs are actually getting full-blown Parvo from the Parvo vaccinations.

Again, many of our customers have dogs that exhibit full-blown Parvo symptoms within literally one or two days after being vaccinated.

Several customers can relate to this, because their own children got the ‘flu within days of being given the vaccines.

It turns out that the same thing is going on with dogs and their Canine Parvovirus vaccinations.

If you stop to consider this for a moment, the vaccines contain modified versions of the live virus, and they are designed to weaken the dog’s immune system, as that is how they are supposed to work – well, that’s the theory. And if that weren’t bad enough, many vaccines contain more than one virus – anywhere from four to seven or eight at a time.

Lastly, and perhaps most worrying of all, is the fact that your dog’s immune system can be weakened by any vaccinations, not just Parvo ones. The results of this are obvious: your dog will have an increased chance of becoming ill in the future.

Other side-effects of vaccinations include chronic inflammation, which will cause the obvious issues like arthritis, but it’s now been proven that inflammation is a leading cause of cancer.

To top it off, the vaccines themselves also contain a wide range of toxic chemicals, which are not going to do your dog any good at all.

It’s good that the recommendation for annual booster shots has been reduced by the AVMA to just every three years, but even this is too much. Other research has established that vaccinations are effective for at least seven years, and maybe even life.

So, to summarise, Parvo shots are no longer that effective against the 2c strain, they may even give your dog Parvo, and they can cause long-term health problems, including cancer.

Your vet will probably argue against all of these points, but please bear in mind – this is your dog we’re talkkng about here, and you have the right to be told all of the facts before making an informed decision about which Parvo treatment you want (although we strongly recommend the Parvaid range of products), and not be browbeaten into doing something you don’t feel is right for your dog.

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