PhilaPets News and Information

2008 PhilaPets.com Client Calendar Contest

It is calendar time once again. For the third year in a row, we are sponsoring the 2008 PhilaPets.com Client Calendar competition.

Send us your cutest, funniest, or sweetest photos of your pets. Take some time this Thanksgiving to take some new pictures and show us how much your pets make you thankful this year.

The top twelve pet pictures will receive a free calendar with their pet's picture and three free pet visits. The top photo winner will not only get the cover but five free pet visits as well!

Entries can be sent to calendar@philapets.com. Please be sure to send landscape formatted, high-resolution photos, at least 1024 x 768.

Entries must be received no later then December 1st, 2007. Winners will be announced in the December newsletter (due out around December 15th).

See cover girl, Jezebel, and the other winners from 2007.

All entries become property of PhilaPets.com and may be used in future marketing campaigns.

Holiday Services

We are fully booked for Thanksgiving.

We have limited holiday availability so please book early for Christmas and New Years!

Schedule Services

Pet-Friendly Events

What: Adoptions at Headhouse Square
When: Sunday December 2, 2007 [10:00am - 2:00pm]
Where: Headhouse Row Market 2nd and Pine Streets, Philadelphia PA Map

Come and visit the PSPCA mobile adoption unit at the Headhouse Square Farmers Market on Sunday December 2nd.

For more information see http://www.pspca.org/news?id=64

What: Fitness with Fido
When: Saturday December 8, 2007 [9:00am - 1:00pm]
Where: Sporting Club at the Bellevue 224 South Broad Street, Philadelphia Map

PSPCA will be at the Sporting Club at The Bellevue with pets for adoption and other pet friendly activities like a microchipping clinic, dog agility, Ask the Vet, Doggie Yoga and more!

For more information see http://www.pspca.org/news?id=65

Pets For Adoption

Room For One More?

Two kittens and their mom need a home for the holidays.

Meet Earl (grey), Beamer (black and white) and their mother, Abby (Abyssinian mix). Both kittens are male and about five months old. Abby is a little more then a year.

All of them are extremely well socialized (including the mom) and loving towards each other, to humans, and to dogs. They are all incredibly sweet (they lick instead of bite!), vaccinated, healthy, very good with the litter box, and are spayed/neutered. Deirdre's been clipping their nails too so they're even used to that!

Deirdre and Zeth have been fostering them since they were about two weeks old. They have all been vaccinated and fixed and are in excellent health.

Please email us if you have any questions or are interested in adopting one, two, or all three.

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Pet Health

Overcoming Pet Allergies

In the past, the quick advice for pet owners with allergies was to get rid of their pets. Everyday shelters are filled with unwanted cats and dogs because someone in the family either developed pet allergies or a new member is allergic. More than 30% of all animals given up for adoption in the past 10 years have been because of an unforeseen or unmanageable problem with severe allergies to pets.

Dr. Clifford Bassett who writes for the newsletter of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology states that allergy suffers are not really allergic to their pet's fur or feathers, but what's on it.

Read the full article

Top 10 Creepy Pets

As pet sitters, we get to see a lot of different types of pets. Cats and dogs make up 90% of our clients. That leaves 10% as "other" species.

They may be creepy and they may be crawly but the key to making a good pet is matching it with the right owner.

Here is a Halloween posting of the Top 10 Creepy Pets.

1. Tarantulas
2. Hissing Cockroaches
3. Giant Millipedes
4. Emperor Scorpions
5. Snakes

See the full list