Swimming with your Dog

When it is summertime, enjoying the water with your dog can be great fun. Swimming is as good for dogs as it is for people – a health promoting sport with great fitness benefits placing minimal wear and tear on joints. Just like people, most dogs can handle the physical demands of swimming. Some dogs are more proficient than others. They come hard-wired with more energy and efficiency in the water and better equipped with webbed feet! However, with the help of a quality life jacket, a pug can enjoy the water as much as a lab.

If you want swimming and water fun to be a part of your dog’s life, think carefully when first exposing your dog to water. Before starting a swimming program think about how your dog responds to water. Does she splash in every puddle; play in every water bowl and run to any large body of water? Even with a naturally water loving dog, never use compulsion to force your dog to enter a body of water. Just placing a puppy in a kiddy pool can create fear. Always let your dog choose to play in water.

The best way to create a water loving dog is to insure their safety with a quality life jacket. Even a dog with natural swimming ability can benefit from a good life jacket. The jacket promotes water confidence and will increase swimming time by reducing fatigue. When fitting a life jacket, buy the smallest jacket possible as long as the chest straps fit comfortably.

Choose your dog’s swim locations with care. If you wouldn’t swim in the water, don’t allow you dog in the water. Check for any swimming hazards; submerged junk, fishing hooks or equipment, broken glass, wildlife that may harm your dog. Remember, a pool with steps is always more difficult for a dog to negotiate than a body of water with a gradual entry.

To start your dog on a lifetime of fun in the water, pick a warm sunny day, a clean, safe body of water with a gradual entry, take lots of floating toys and treats for rewarding water confidence. Pet Pantry Warehouse is fully stocked with quality life jackets, fun water toys and healthy, natural treats. Come in and have our trained staff help you properly fit your dog’s life jacket.

The Good Dog Foundation and Pet Pantry Announce the June 2010 Therapy Dog Search!

The Good Dog Foundation will host a Therapy Dog Search at Pet Pantry in Greenwich, CT on Saturday, June 19th. After evaluation, the dog and handler may attend a training program and go on to join more than 800 other Good Dog volunteer teams who offer animal-assisted therapy to health care, social service, educational and community facilities in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

WHEN: Saturday, June 19th, 2:00-4:00 p.m. *
WHO: Any dog and handler pair who is interested in becoming a Good Dog volunteer team may attend. Dogs must be at least six months old. The handler needs only to have the desire and availability for volunteering with one or more facilities or programs.
WHERE:
Pet Pantry
290 Railroad Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
INFO: For more information call 718-788-2988.

*First come, first serve. There may be a short wait depending on the numer of dogs in attendance.

Pet Therapy search this Saturday in Rye!

Saturday June 5th, at Pet Pantry in Rye, NY
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The Good Dog Foundation and Pet Pantry Warehouse announce the June 2010 therapy
Dog Search!

The
Good Dog Foundation will host a Therapy Dog Search at Pet Pantry
in Rye, NY on Saturday, June 5th. After evaluation,
the dog and handler may attend a training program and go on to join more than
800 other Good Dog volunteer teams who offer animal-assisted therapy to health
care, social service, educational and community facilities in New York, Connecticut,
New Jersey and Massachusetts.

WHEN:Saturday, June 5th, 2:00-4:00 p.m. *

WHO:Any dog and handler pair who is
interested in becoming a Good Dog volunteer team may attend. Dogs must be at
least six months old. The handler needs only to have the desire and
availability for volunteering with one or more facilities or programs.
WHERE:
Pet Pantry

259
Purchase St.
Rye, NY 10580
INFO:For more information call 718-788-2988.
*First come, first
served. There may be a short wait depending on the numer of dogs in attendance.