Awe…Maybe Not So Cute.

When you talk about your animals, do you refer to them as your babies, and as such have pictures of them in your wallet, ready to show them to any friendly stranger with a ready ear? Do you dress your animals up in fashionable outfits, complete with mittens and glitzy accessories? If so please consider the word obsession. It’s a fairly old concept and can relate to anything that attracts and retains our attention. We as humans need to latch on to something other than ourselves and deposit energy into a pastime that seems to enrich and add meaning to our lives. If it is not another human, such a lover or a child, then we move on to the next likely and receptive subject. This is very often our pets. While our furry companions might find the attention flattering, one can’t help but feel sorry for the Great Dane in a tutu. So please consider your animal's safety and dignity next time you buy those adorable booties.

Animal Safety with MediPet Insurance

Your pets are like kids to you and that is why it is important to make sure that their animal safety is well looked after by both you and by Medipet insurance. Medipet insurance is determined to make your life easier and your animal’s health a lot safer. For just R115 per month for your cute little cat and R125 per month for your boisterous pooch you can work hand in hand with a top health insurer to protect the health and animal safety of your pet!

The last thing we as animal lovers ever want to see is compromised animal safety where an animal is in need, hurt or ill, but the reality is that these things do happen, with the right forward thinking and preparation you can be ready to handle anything regarding your animals’ safety. Medipet insurance will be there to cover your finances were anything to happen to your pet and they were in need of medical help. The assurance of not having to deal with piling vet bills and financial worries means that you can focus all of your concern, time and love into your pet who will need you and your tender loving care more than ever!

For animal safety with reliability apply for Medipet insurance cover by giving them a call on: 0800 6334738 / 021 701 2023 or apply online at www.medipetsa.co.za.

Animal Safety

Being a pet owner means that you have one of the greatest and most rewarding titles in the world. Having a pet means that you are one half of a loving and unconditional relationship that is a lifelong and mutually rewarding bond. Part of being a pet owner also includes taking on the very important responsibility of taking care of animal safety for your pet. Animal safety can mean a lot of things but it primarily means that you will have set in place certain rules and certain plans to make sure that your pet is safe and protected. From knowing where the nearest vet is, to keeping your dog off of the streets you are their ultimate animal safety guardian!

To make this responsibility air tight and much easier to maintain Medipet is there for you and your pet for all of your pet’s veterinary and medical animal safety needs. That means that your dog and/or cat’s animal safety does not have be a worry to you – as Medipet will be there to help you carry the load and cost when your pet needs medical help. Feel free to visit www.medipetsa.co.za for all the information you need for improved animal safety!

Animal safety and your dog

Do you find that your dog develops a mean streak when it is around other dogs that lead to serious animal safety concerns? You can train your dog to be vigilant and weary without them becoming fighters that jump at every gate that they walk past and being belligerent around other animals and people that they do not know. Dog fighting can lead to unfortunate problems and animal safety concerns, but with the right training and knowledge you can train your pet to heed your calls and listen to your commands that can save you both from dangerous animal safety situations.

Sufficient dog training and a good relationship with your pet can ensure that when a stressful or unexpected situation arises you can have enough control over your pet to protect both their animal safety and the safety of others around you. Animal safety needs to take both your pet and other people and their pets into consideration.

Being aware of your dog’s character and the ways in which they will respond to different situations and animals can help save you unnecessary worry about animal safety and stress when your dog comes into contact with other animals and people.

Animal safety tips: First Aid Kit

First aid is something that we all regard as being very important as we know that being able to act quickly in emergency situations can often save lives. The same is true when it comes to animal safety, knowing what to do and being prepared to do it when an accident strikes can often save an animal’s life too. Some essential know how and a few good tips can equip with you with enough knowledge of how to act and what to do in urgent situations when the animal safety of your pet is brought under threat.

When setting up and putting together an animal safety first aid kit there are some essential basics that you should get a hold of. Starting with gauze pads, gauze roll and / or bandages, a roll of cloth, tweezers, antibiotic ointment, hydrogen peroxide and an easy to use, short manual on animal safety and first aid.

Remember that when an animal has been hurt or injured they may be in shock and may react to try and further protect themselves so be cautious about being bitten or scratched when you are handling the animal. With some knowledge and the right tools you should be able to treat emergency and common animal safety problems.

Animal safety tips

Animal safety tips are invaluable when it comes down to the crunch of needing to ensure that your family and your animals are well protected and looked after. A lot of good animal safety advice is not about essential safety or disaster procedures but the tips are rather about the best and most effective ways of avoiding the need for real safety concerns, following the old saying that prevention is far better than cure.

Animal safety tips in regards to children are pretty basic – you need to make sure that your child is not susceptible to getting sick through their handling of animals. This can be ensured by washing, and teaching your child to wash, their hands after having played with or even just petted an animal. Kids are known to touch a lot of objects and the washing of hands is especially important before eating a meal. And by making sure that your animals themselves are kept clean you can prevent unwanted germs, viruses and diseases from entering your home. Other things to teach your child about animal safety include not approaching animals that are unfamiliar to them; this means strays, and other animals that may prove dangerous in any way – from violent temperaments to illnesses.

Animal Safety

Animal safety is a reality that is better to be careful with rather than to be left feeling sorry that you didn’t take all the possible and even necessary precautions beforehand. Here are some basic tips and guidelines to ensuring your animal safety:

- Find a good and reliable vet that you feel comfortable with and are prepared to entrust with your animal’s safety

- Take you cat or dog for regular annual check ups with your vet. This check up is likely to be best to coincide with trips to the vet for your pet’s necessary shots, which are generally given every two years to protect them from viruses and other bugs that could get into their systems

- Make sure that your pet does not have free running access to roads and try to keep them within the gates or walls of your property where possible

- Feeing your animal the right foods that is specifically suited an animal diet and nutritional needs can do wonders for the safety of your animal’s health

- Making sure that your dog is well trained to listen to you is also a great way of ensuring better safety for your animal

Animal Safety

Animal safety is of great importance and is one the foremost priorities when it comes to pet ownership. Your animal – whether he or she is a cat or dog – needs to be looked after and their safety is a key factor to making absolutely sure that their health and needs are all met and adequately provided for. And there are a number of ways in which you can be sure to cover your all of these needs.

By following your instincts as a loving and caring pet owner you can increase your pet’s safety and thus their overall quality of life with dramatic results. This means that through vigilance and by keeping an eye on all things related to your pet and their well being, you can know that their health is taken care of because it is in your loving and reliable hands.

Health insurance is an extremely helpful and easy way of adding to your animal safety nets. So by keeping informed about pet health matters, by covering your pet’s health needs with pet insurance and by getting and following good veterinary advice your pet’s life can be notably and effectively enhanced and protected in the best possible ways.

Animal Safety

Your animal’s safety is not something to be taken lightly. Your family pet is after all more like an extension of your family rather than just any animal. Medipet understands this and that is why they have put together pet health insurance packages to help you protect and look after your pet in every way possible.

With good cover and easy access to claims your animal’s safety and health is in reliable and trustworthy hands. Your cat or dog’s health and medical needs are often unpredictable and that is why Medipet sees the great importance in you being prepared for anything that might happen to your pet. From accidents to illness you and your pet can be covered for any of the medical and financial repercussions.

And instead of you fretting over your animal’s safety there is the much easier and completely hassle free option of protecting both you and your pet with pet health insurance cover. You will be put at ease knowing that your pet can be taken care of by any vet at any time without you having to break the bank. And your pet will benefit from the great cover and service of any vet countrywide.

An animal safety issue

I have, in the last two days, heard everywhere that there is a shocking new law in South Africa regarding animal safety. After searching high and low through online newspaper archives and talk radio logs, I can't find much mention of it. Please, if you know anything about this, email us and tell us!! The only article I have found is posted after this account.

The 'new' law is as follows: BARKING DOGS

If a neighbour of yours complains to the police about your barking dog, the police will come and give you a warning.
If there is a second complaint, your dog will be TAKEN AWAY from you, and the police have the right to have it put down.

This is the most inhumane, revolting and awful law that I have ever heard of. Is it real? Can a neighbour really cause the death of your beloved pet? I have received emails telling me that there are institutions and processes in place to prevent you from being the victim of a nasty neighbour, but I am unconvinced.

When it is animal safety at stake, I am no quiet voice. Is there anyone out there who can comment on this? I have a sausage dog and he yaps all the time! Our neighbours once sent us a nasty letter telling us that we must be abusing the small dog and they are going to report us to the SPCA. Worried and scared, we phoned the SPCA and they just laughed - 'dogs bark!' they said. What if these neighbours call the police?

There must be something in place to ensure animal safety - do the complaints need to be from different neighbours? What if everyone else in your neighbourhood doesn't mind your barking dog? Please leave your comments and email me any information.

Here is one mention of the new law, found at http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20070919073103643C678671

Don't get me wrong. Incessant dog-barking would drive me right up the garden wall were it not for the five strands of electrified wire on top.And it's usually my own dog, imagining there's a burglar on the other side of it, that provokes me into conducting an exasperated conversation with a canine.Often Stan himself doesn't truly believe he's warding off burglars. While I am working he tends to signal his general boredom with life by going out on the front lawn, if we let him, and barking at the sky."For heaven's sake, Stan," I shout, rushing out, "give me a break. Stoppit, come inside, for crying out loud."He's always pleased to get this sort of attention, and wags his tail.At least we don't let him stand at the front gate, like the neighbourhood dogs are allowed to do.

While walking Stan and Kali round a single block we pass two Staffies, two black Labradors, two Jack Russells, a German shepherd, a Rottweiler and two very stupid boxers, one of which immediately throws himself up and around in anti-clockwise circles.All of them express their noisy annoyance at our daring to walk past their gates with our own dogs.Amid the uproar I remark to my wife: "I'm glad we don't live round here." Then she reminds me we do.But I would never want them to be seized and impounded, merely because they were doing their doggy best to protect their owners' properties.Yet that is what could happen under the new by-laws being considered by the City of Cape Town.

They would enable people to spy on their neighbours and report to dog police, who can then pounce on offending pets.The maximum penalty will be a fine of R20 000 (for the owner) and death (for the dog). At this stage no executions are planned for the owners, as well, which comes as a relief.

If it is a disappointment to some, they should realise that even Beijing, whose clothes we now all wear and on whom we increasingly model ourselves, hasn't got to this stage. That city has also passed new laws to control dogs, and stipulates that no household may have more than one, like babies, whereas Cape Town will still allow us two.Some Beijing admirer in City Hall is behind the times.In addition, Beijing has ruled that dogs may be no taller than 35 centimetres. This is something that Cape Town hasn't thought of, either, which is good news for all local pooches above ankle height.

Nor has the city yet urged neighbours to inform on each other, though no doubt this will happen in due course.If barking dogs are banned, can crying babies be far behind?It will help to take our minds off crime. Dogs are much easier to nail than drug dealers, and no one's going to arrest you for knocking on a dog-owner's door.We might even end up eating our dogs, which is one way to stop them barking.As the Beijing gourmets say, you can't have your dog and eat it.johnvscott@mweb.co.za