petmed.com,petinsurance.com hope it helps I justed adopted yes another dog yesterday a bouncey weenie dog the name is digity short for hot diggity dog I guess family didn't want her because they prefered thier lab dog only and the dog I got was shoved out of the door with the threat of heart worms the vet told me to go to wal mart before to make it cheaper on the medicines heart guard plus for her heartworms just once amonth its all it takes easy enough for me and the family has another baby bouncy 7 year old weenie dog along with the first weenie dog I still grieve for my basset hound but now is the time to spoil another 4 footed critter.

Cheapchic,

Lucky dog to have you come along and rescue. Do you have pet insurance?

You're honoring your Basset hound by being such a good person to these other creatures.

Any animal lover/rescuer has to be a really good person. Whoops, I didn't mean to brag about myself!

Measure the food out, don't free feed, so many people just dump food in a dish.

Also my Vet has told me to buy OTC people medicine for my dogs, asprine for when they got older and stiff, my pharmacist buys generic glucosimine (sp?) caplits because they are less expensive for her dogs, I always gave heartworm pills year round because they have to be tested before you give them again if you stop during the cooler season and the cost of the test was more then year round treatment. 

I live in the NE and use pellets for my woodstove - they are around $5 for a 40# bag vs $25+ at the pet stores - and I don't notice a difference.  The used pellets then make great mulch for my flower beds (I wouldn't use it around veggies).

 There aremany good tips here for saving money on meds and shots, thanks!   My dog Gigi is a Bichon Frise.  I save  $40.00+ every 8-10 weeks by learning to bathe and groom her myself.  I bought special shears and brushes and clippers, through an online discount pet supply, and borrowed a dvd from the library on pet grooming.  This saves me the trouble of having to drive her to the groomer and also it is less stressful for her too.

 Get an enzyme toothpaste and learn to brush your cat's or dog's teeth. This will save on potential dental work and cleanings/scraping, which  here costs a good $300.00. And use Revolation or another tick/flea/heartworm preventative to save on having to deflea your house and your pets.

Dear All, When your pet has had one infection, buy holistic or other remedies to prevent a recurrence.  For Heart's ear yeast infection, I am using earwash daily as preventative of recurrence (I'm using NatureVet earwash with tea tree oil), & for her hot spot infection to improve healing, I'm using Vet's Best Hot Spot Spray.  Products like these cost MUCH MUCH lesss than vet visists!!!  Yours in Him, Deb

Hi seaturttle thanks your e-mail made my day thanks again plus the advice you gave acouple e-mails down about glou. it helps humans and yes my vet told me that just never thought about thatCool also brewers yeast small teaspoon a day or garlic tab in the health food section just crounch it up put in their food at night or in morning once aday with one or another of the powders what it does make mosqitoes not come never them in the sumer I don't know about fleas besides they are B-52 bomers trying to get our furball friends and aloe vera helps with dry skin dab on the itch of an area or hydro cortison that helps with the itch from a rash they may have.

 Years ago I had a very large Lab by the name of Joey.  Well, as Joey aged (14) he just wouldn't eat.  I tried every dog food on the market.  Nope. Wet, dry, gravies.....didn't matter.  I didn't want to try "people food"  because he had never had it, except when he "stole" it and then he usually would get sick and it would come out one end or the other.  He was old and the throwing up was so hard on him...........I took him to the vet and we ran alot of tests and of course they were negative.  The vet thought he was just old, but said that if I wanted to, that she would give me a recipe and that I could "cook" for him.  Would I cook for him?????  I would have walked through fire for my Joey!!!!!!  Well, I wanted to post the recipe to hopefully save someone a vet visit, but wasn't absolutely sure about the amounts, but I found the recipe on the following Humane Society website.  As you can see, they also use it to save puppies.  By the way, Joey loved it and lived another year.     http://www.washingtoncountyhumane.org/savapup.html

 

Phyllis

Oh cool glad you put that there I rescue animals all the time Im an over grown sucker for dogs cats birds yes even cows thats how come I am going vegatarain So as long as we take care of animals like feeding play make sure they are happy to pet insurance I know that helps some to meds like like this petpharnacy.com this is the wrong web thing buy Im sure you are getting my point...