The California Veterinary Medical Board is trying to prevent anyone other than a veterinarian from performing any type of rehab therapy for our pets.  This includes swim therapy, chiropractic, laser therapy, underwater treadmill, and other therapeutic modalities.  Most vets don’t know about therapy and are happy to refer to someone who does.  Most vets don’t want to go back to school to take courses on rehab therapy.  This means that it will be much more difficult to find someone to help our pets when they need it the most!!!

Please contact your State Senator today and tell them you want them to vote “NO” on AB 1980, as amended on June 7, 2010. For the sake of our pets.  Voting takes place on Monday, Aug. 9th, so please do this ASAP!!  And spread the word.

L.A. City Council is considering raising the dog license fees from $15 to $20 annually. This would bring an additional $600,000 of revenue to the city.

Today’s Doggie Dish pawscast is about training when there are multiple dogs in one household.  It’s not as easy as it sounds; and unfortunately, even if one dog is trained it doesn’t rub off on the other dogs.   This episode is about how to make certain you are the one influencing all your dogs, not the dogs influencing each other.

Long Beach animal control workers, assisted by LA Animal License Inspectors, will be canvassing door to door to check up on dog (and cat?) licenses.