ASPCA lists 5 ways to protect pets during hurricanes

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has released five expert tips on keeping pets safe during a disaster.

The ASPCA (https://www.aspca.org/) has activated its disaster response team in anticipation of potential evacuation, rescue, and sheltering needs before, during, and after the hurricane.

Pet owners are urged to take the following steps:

• If you evacuate, take your pets with you. Never leave your pets behind or tether them to poles or trees, which prevents them from escaping high waters and getting to safe areas.
• Make sure all pets are wearing ID tags with up-to-date contact information. Consider micro-chipping your pet as a more permanent form of identification.
• Create a portable pet emergency kit with items including medical records, water, water bowls, pet food and your pet’s medications.
• Choose a designated caregiver, such as a friend or relative outside the evacuation zone, who can take care of your pet in the event you are unable.
• Download the free ASPCA mobile app, which allows pet owners to store crucial pet records needed for boarding pets at evacuation shelters.

“It’s critical for pet owners to consider their animals when preparing for any disaster, and we strongly urge them to always bring their animals with them if they have to evacuate their home,” said Tim Rickey, vice president of ASPCA Field Investigations and Response team.

“The ASPCA stands ready to assist animals in Hurricane Irma’s path, but the first and best line of defense for a pet will always be a well-prepared owner.”

Simple Care Guideline for Our Dogs

A dog can be a wonderful furend to anyone, but it’s important to keep your four legged family member’s health and happiness a top priority. Here are some useful tips.

Feeding: Choose proper food for your dog’s breed, size and age. While puppies needed to feed more often (3-4 times a day) , elder dogs need less (1 time a day) and different food to live healthy life. Also limiting people food will definitely be  better.  Please talk with your vet for feeding information for your furend.

Exercise and Play: Dogs need exercise to be healthy. Also exercise and play, stimulate their minds and avoid boredom. With choice of right toys such as OoMaLoo Dog Toys you may satisfy many of your dog’s instinctual urges to dig, herd, chew, retrieve and chase. Play keep them vital and alive.

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DOG TOYS FOR TEXAS

Humane Society: Houston’s animals and pets need our help, too. 
Hurricane Harvey hit Huston very hard, and those hurt by Hurricane Harvey need your help. Not just humans but our furends too. 

They lost their home their families. Organization like Humane Society and Huston SPCA are working very hard to help them.

As family oriented dog toy company we thought what we can do best and decide donate our toys to shelters in Huston.

Beside our own donation until September 15 when you buy a toy from our website (www.oomaloo.com) we will donate additional toys to Huston Shelters.
Until now you helped us provide job for poor Artisan Women and now beside that you will help us to give some joy for our furends in need.

Also you can directly donate to Humane Sciety or Huston SPCA from these links

http://www.houstonspca.org/ and http://www.houstonhumane.org/

Humane Society: Houston’s animals and pets need our help, too.

As human victims of Houston flooding struggle to find shelter, many of their dogs, cats, horses, cattle and other four-legged and winged creatures that depend on human care for survival are being abandoned and lost
The Humane Society of the United States, Wings of Rescue, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), GreaterGood.org and other organizations are flying homeless dogs and cats from Texas shelters to facilities in other parts of the country to make room for the influx of thousands of homeless animals being picked up in the hurricane-devastated areas.
Please help if you can…

http://www.houstonspca.org/

http://www.houstonhumane.org/

Are There Any Safe Candy For Dogs?

Short answer is yes with a but.  Only safe candies for your dogs are the toy candies such as OoMaLoo handmade Candy Dog Toy.

Unfortunately all other candies are can cause several health problem for our furends. While eating a small amount of sugar or a sweet containing sugar is not extremely dangerous, it’s best to avoid feeding these kinds of foods to our dogs.

Pure sugar contained food can cause sever gas and diarrhea. Also please keep in mind that sugar free sweet stuff doesn’t mean healthy for our dogs.  Most of the time sugar free means it contains Xylitol, a sugar-substitute. Xylitol is perfectly safe in people, but it can be deadly if ingested by a dog or cat. Xylitol causes a very severe drop in blood sugar that can happen within minutes after ingestion.

Another sweet which is perfectly good for humans but not our dogs is Chocolate. Chocolate is toxic to pets and can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea and seizures.

For checking only safe candy options for your dog please click here

WE CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY

International Cat Day is a full 24 hours of recognition and veneration of one of humanity’s oldest and most beloved pets. The festivities were put together for the first time in 2002 by IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, among other animal rights groups, to celebrate the most popular pet on the planet.

An estimated 500 million cats are thought to be frolicking in neighbours’ gardens across the world, whichmeans that most every extended family is bound to have an aunt with more kittens than former husbands, whatever the country or climate. And that’s great, because owning a cat has been shown to improve mental health and to relieve stress, anxiety and depression. So when it’s raining cats and dogs outside and you don’t have someone to cuddle with, any black, ginger, Persian, Siamese, Burmese, Bengal, Shorthair, Munchkin, Balinese, RagaMuffin or any old stray cat will do the trick. (more…)

Can Dogs Eat Ice Cream?

Long word short No! You shouldn’t share your ice cream with your dog unless you want to make them sick.

Dogs’ bodies are not designed to digest milk after they arepuppies. Since ice cream is made with milk, feeding your dog ice cream could lead to gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, or vomiting.

The second problem with ice cream is that it is loaded with sugar. Sugar is harmful to adult furends or Puppies. Giving too much sweet treats to your furend lead to getting overweight at least. And even the ice cream says it does not have sugar it means it has other sweeteners such as xylitol which can be more harmful then sugar for your four legged family member.

Alternatives to Ice Cream:

A froyo (froze yogurt) can be a good alternative or you can give him OoMaLoo handmade Ice Cream Dog Toy.  (more…)

Yipeeee! It is Friday!

? We are ready to play with our ? furends, do you?

This weekend we will play with OoMaloo Handmade Candy Dog Toy. ? This candy actually healthy for dogs. While it’s hand crochet funky-fur exterior makes play fun, with it also helps dental cleaning by acting like a soft tooth brush for dogs.

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9 Things you can do for your dogs at a hot summer day!

• Never, ever leave your dog in the car, temperatures can increase very quickly and can be deadly for your furend.
• Make sure your dog has unlimited access to fresh water. Like humans dogs need more fresh water at hot summer days.
• Make sure your dog has access to shade when outside or keep and open door for them to get inside when it is too hot.
• Take walks during early morings or a while after sunset.
• When walking, try to stay off of hot surfaces (like asphalt, concrete ) because it can be harmful to your furend’s paws.
• If you think it’s hot outside, it’s even hotter for your pet (try to go out with a winter coat at summer) – make sure your pet has a means of cooling off like shaded area, water baths etc.
• Keep your dog free of external parasites (fleas, ticks) an (more…)