Keeping Your Pets Safe---5 Steps Towards Making Your Home Safe

Providing a safe and healthy environment is one
of the best ways to show your pet love. Doing
the following 5 things will make your home safer
and help insure a better and longer life for you
pet.

Secure the garbage. Trash can be hazardous to
pets. And some pets are able to raid the can
better than others. Things such as jagged or
tiny bones and other sharp items can puncture
and tear vital organs as they make their way
through the digestive tract. Other items that
are hazardous such as chocolate, coffee and tea
bags, discarded medication can all be deadly.

Storing the trash inside a cabinet in a
container that has a lid is a good idea.
Lightweight containers that can be overturned by
bigger animals should be avoided. If you avoid
feeding your dog table scraps there is a chance
that they may never be interested. But
admittedly this is easier said than done. And
once they've had a taste of people food, there's
no turning back.

Establish toilet etiquette. As gross as this
sounds, for those of us who are pet owners
(particularly dogs), you know that some animals
just like to go there. If you have a pet who
likes toilet water, make sure that everyone who
uses it always flushes until the water is clean.

It's also important that if this is your pet's
only water source, that everyone (guests
included) is reminded to leave the top up and
the door open. Forgetting do this can mean your
pet is left without water and that should be
avoided at all costs.

Clear the table. We had my parents over one
evening and left a cheese ball covered with nuts
on the table while we let them out. When we
returned to clear the table the cheese was gone.
I called and asked if they had carried it home
with them. They had not. We discovered that our
Golden Retriever had eaten the entire thing when
we saw the little walnuts that had settled to the
bottom of the toilet.

While this is a funny story that I have
continued to tell, you can easily see that this
could have been disaster with chocolate or some
other unforgiving food. The best thing to do is
either secure your pet when you don't have time
to clear the table, or take the time to put all
the food in a place that makes it unavailable to
your pet.

Eliminate choking hazards. If you have small
children at home this can be a continuing
concern. But explaining the importance of
keeping small objects off the floor can help
children feel that they are doing their part to
take care of the family pet too.

These hazards can also be normal household items
such as toothpicks, safety and straight pins,
nails, screws, coins and a ton of other things.
You can also let your pet know in a gentle but
firm way that these items are off limits.

Provide secure outside space. This is an
important one. Having a fenced area that other
people and animals cannot enter without your
permission and/or knowledge is great. An
unsecured yard is a heartbreak waiting to
happen.

Electric fences are great visually, but they
won't keep your pet from being taken or attacked
by another animal. This is food for thought as
you decide what's best for your situation.

Establish routine for opening doors. Pets
running out of an open door and getting hit by a
car, or wandering off and getting lost are
probably 2 of the most painful ways to lose a
pet. Having everyone on board about what happens
when the door to the outside is opened is a
routine that should be established early with
humans and animals. This can help keep your pet
safe and allow you to enjoy a happy life
together for a long time.


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