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.

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.

Here is part of the news release:

“Our 5 lb. and 28 lb. Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog food, manufactured on December 17, 2009 with a “Best By” date of June 17, 2011 is being voluntarily recalled. A random sampling of this product tested positive for Salmonella by the FDA. In my mind, I asked, “How can this happen? I spent over $900,000 putting in our laboratory to test our products before we release them.” We tested samples from the production run when it was manufactured six months ago, and the results came back negative.”

You can read the rest here:

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/letter_from_president.html

Believe it or not, having your dog’s attention is not the same thing as getting your dog’s attention.  The former is much more important than that latter.  More often than not, if you have the first part, the second part falls into place without much work.  The other way around is much more difficult.  In today’s show we discuss why having your dog’s attention is better, and the ways to make that happen.