Prisky Paws

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for many things in my life. One of them is having two wonderful dogs and being able to take them out to places I frequent. I'm a Jersey girl and happy to be one. There's all sorts of things to do in NJ. You can go to the beach, spend a weekend gambling at a casino, explore the amazing wildlife parks, visit a zoo or a botanical garden, ice skate, bowl, head to a theme park, climb a mountain to ski on, dare to jump out of a plain and sky dive, and much more. With every weekend pretty much planned with some new and exciting event I have searched high and low for dog friendly places. During the work week I have little time to spend with Bebe and Jolie. It's always a rush to leave the door to get to work on time, and than there's going to the gym, and sitting in rush hour traffic, and thinking about dinner, and than getting to bed on time. Bebe and Jolie don't have much play time during the week, so for me it's always been important...

My dog ate her poop, and she smeared it everywhere, and then she did it again and again. Bebe is slowly approaching her 11th birthday and she's started to eat her poop. This dog behavior is called coprophagy and it is gross! I've started researching the condition because I obviously want to make it stop at any cost. Turns out that in my research I found that this behavior is quite common; it is more common in puppies but can also happen to dogs later in their lives. For example, Bebe never consumed her feces as a puppy but here we are a decade into her life and she's chowing down on it. Here Are Some of The Reasons That Dogs Actually Consume Their Own Feces: 1.        Dogs evolved from wolves, back than wolves survived from chowing down on human garbage and human excrement. So if we think about it, dogs eat anything that is laying around that may have nutritional value, including poop! 2.        Malabosorption - Not a...