This is a sponsored post by Embark Vet. This is our experience with Embark Vet. If you purchase using our links in the article we do earn a small commission. It does not increase the price you pay for the product, it's just a way to help support us by shopping through our links. As many of you have seen on Instagram, we have a new family member! In January, we adopted Balto from Coco's Heart Dog Rescue in Hudson, Wisconsin. This was our first time adopting a rescue dog so it was also our ...
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6 Considerations to Make Before Getting a Dog
It’s never easy to make a difficult choice when it comes to a beloved pet, but sometimes it’s necessary if you need to understand whether a dog would be the right fit for you. On the surface, dogs are adorable and loving companions and should be the perfect fit for any home, but sadly a lot of dogs aren’t suitable for certain lifestyle or working schedules. Despite the many appeals of a dog, here are six important considerations to make to understand whether owning a dog would work for ...
How To Deal With The Loss Of Your Family Pet
The saddest thing about owning a pet is that you will outlive it by quite some distance. This means that, at some point, you have to brace yourself for the loss of a valuable family member. People without pets won’t understand how hard this is to handle. It’s very much like losing a human family member that you love dearly. To make matters worse, children become very attached to pets. So, it’s likely to hit them a lot harder than it will hit you. Especially if you have already experienced the ...
Five Tips for Pet Care When You Are on Vacation
Chances are that when you first chose to get a pet, your first thought wasn’t about what you would do with them when you go on vacation. More likely you imagined going for long walks in the park together, evening cuddles on the sofa and enjoying the kind of unconditional and unwavering love that only a pet can provide. However, now that you have your own little ball of fur or four-legged friend, you are probably experiencing that uncomfortable and anxious feeling in your stomach about ...
Saying Goodbye to a Pet
It's never easy saying goodbye to a pet. We invite these four-legged family members into our home and hearts knowing they are not going to outlive us. We know that one day, our beloved pet is going to pass on. Yet, we still adopt them and bring them into our hearts and homes without hesitation. This past weekend I had to make the difficult decision to put our cat, Sophia, down. It was a difficult choice. It was a tough choice. But it was a choice that needed to be made. I adopted Sophia ...
Easily Organize Your Pet Photos with Pet Photo Saver
Peyton and I love taking pictures of our pets. I think Peyton takes photos of at least one of the dogs or cats every single day. I mean, we have 2 dogs and 5 cats in this house so there is always someone doing something cute that needs to be captured with my phone. But I also have tons of other pictures on my phone as well. Pictures of things I need to buy, the places we've visited and family pictures of Peyton. Currently, I have over 3,000 photos on my phone. So how can I sort through there and ...