Halo Pets Blog - Page 38 of 157 - Improving the well being of pets and the people who love them.

Posted on February 22, 2018
Posted in Bloggers, Pet Tips, Pet Travel, Tracie Hotchner

Important Corrections About Flying With Your Dog

I received a most informative email today, right on the heels of the most recent podcast of the DOG TALK show in which Dr. Nick Dodman talked about the (mis)use of tranquilizers for dogs when they are traveling. I received this detailed and well-informed rebuttal to several of the points that came up in our interview

Posted on February 20, 2018February 20, 2018
Posted in Bethany Meissner, Bloggers, Pet Stories

Living With Dogs Appears To Help Humans Live Longer

Maybe someday doctors will advise patients at risk of cardiovascular disease to not only improve their diet and physical activity, but also to adopt a dog! Most people who have adopted a dog believe that their life is better for having done so. Now those happy adopters can point to a study by Swedish scientists for

Posted on February 19, 2018
Posted in Bloggers, Talk Radio, Tracie Hotchner

Is This Dog Dangerous? Shelters Struggle with Testing “Aggressive” Dogs

For decades, animal shelters have evaluated whether a dog was dangerously aggressive by poking a rubber hand attached to a pole into a dog’s food bowl while he was eating – then pulling the bowl away from him. If the dog lunged or bit at the rubber hand, he was determined to have “failed” the

Posted on February 13, 2018February 13, 2018
Posted in Bethany Meissner, Bloggers, Pet Stories

Adopted Cat Protects Florida Family from Poisonous Snake

Many people are afraid of snakes. It’s lucky for one family in Leesburg, Florida that their cat isn’t. Without their adopted cat’s courageous actions the family likely would have suffered far more than a fright from a poisonous diamondback rattlesnake who slithered into their yard. As first reported by Inside Edition the Peterson family had been enjoying

Salmon in the Alaskan Bristol Bay Watershed

Posted on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018
Posted in Halo Sourcing

Halo CEO on the Alaskan Bristol Bay Watershed Conservation

In a Letter to the Editor to newspapers in local communities affected by the Pebble Mine efforts, Halo® CEO Myron Lyskanycz, lends the company’s voice to the importance of conserving the Alaskan Bristol Bay Watershed, the globally critical wild salmon fishery it supports, and the permanent protection of the Bristol Bay Fishery Reserve from the impacts of