Travel Tips: How To Take Your Dog, Cat, Pet To The Vet Easy ...

(PET CARE) Do you struggle with taking your pet to the vet? Want to you make your next visit stress-free? Read on for seven tips on how to make a trip to the vet easier for both you and your pet. ? Global Animal

Bring along treats to make your pet?s trip to the vet more enjoyable. Photo credit: Earthworm, Flick

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Want to make your pet?s trip to the veterinarian easier on you, your pet and the entire staff of the veterinary hospital? My advice for you is simple: Relax.

Though there are a lot of other things you can do, I find that a change of attitude can have the most dramatic effect. If that surprises you, it shouldn?t. Our pets are incredibly attuned to our moods, and if you?re acting as if a veterinary visit is a bad thing, your dog or cat is more likely to feel that way, too. A cheerful, optimistic outlook is contagious, not only by animals but also by the folks at the veterinary hospital. Of all the things that can be spread at a medical facility, a positive outlook is the one I hope goes viral. It just makes things so much easier for everyone.

Adopting a more relaxed attitude may be the easiest thing you can do, but it?s not the only strategy to help get your pet through a veterinary visit with minimal anxiety. Here are more techniques.

Car Tripping
For many pets, especially cats, car trips seem to end poorly (in the pet?s opinion). If the only time you got in a car you were going to get a shot or have a stranger poke a thermometer somewhere you?d rather he didn?t, you?d have a bad attitude about travel, too. Mix it up. Take your pet for rides he?ll enjoy. For dogs, head for a place to hike or to a store where pets are welcome. Though your cat likely won?t enjoy visiting, just getting out for a ride with treats and praise can help make him less nervous about future journeys.

Carrier Comfort
Like the car, for many animals a carrier means a trip to the veterinarian because that?s the only time they?re in one. That?s why many pets make themselves scarce the moment the carrier comes up from the basement or down from the garage rafters. Change the script: Make the carrier part of the household furnishings. Though you may not want it as part of your formal living room, make space for it in an area your pet sees daily, such as the laundry room. Pets who are familiar with their carriers are more comfortable in them when it comes time to get on the road.

Good Scents
Synthetic pheromones mimic scents animals create to calm themselves and others. They?re available for both dogs and cats, and in many cases they can help calm an anxious pet. Spritz some on the cushion or towel inside the carrier, and spray even more on a towel to put over the carrier. This will turn the carrier into the cat equivalent of a cozy den with the smell of cookies coming from the kitchen.

Hungry Is Better
And speaking of cookies, take treats but make sure your pet is hungry enough to want them. It won?t kill your pet to skip the meal before a veterinary visit, but it will make the treats you?ll have at the hospital seem even more delicious. Bring on the really yummy, juicy, meaty treats, such as baby-food meat sticks, deli turkey or bonita flakes for cats.

Crowd Sourcing
My longtime friend and fellow Vetstreet pet expert Arden Moore gave me this tip, and I love it! If you have more than one pet, take them all in when you visit the vet. Let them all get treats and praise. It will teach them that the vet?s office is a fun place to be. Only one gets the ?real? veterinary visit, but they all get a good experience. Or if you?re a single-pet person, arrange to take your pet into the vet?s office for a visit and treats when there?s nothing wrong. The results will be the same.

Chemical Crutches
Some pets really need a little more help than a loving owner can provide. If your pet is one of these, ask your veterinarian to prescribe a mild antianxiety medication for your next visit.

Obviously, you?ll need to work out the details with your veterinarian before you put some of these strategies into place, but I doubt you?ll have any problem doing so. We veterinarians love animals, and we don?t like seeing them scared of us. Anything that can change a scaredy cat into a happy pet is something we can get behind ? so much so that you shouldn?t be at all surprised to see your veterinarian also working to make visits more pleasant for all.

More Paw Nation: http://www.pawnation.com/2012/01/05/7-ways-to-make-your-pet-s-visit-to-the-veterinarian-easier/

More Resources For Going To The Vet:

How To Contain Pet Care Costs

Pet Health: Advances In Veterinary Medicine

Source: http://www.globalanimal.org/2013/08/04/how-to-make-vet-trips-easier/62571/

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The United States government spends about $2.7 million per prisoner per year to operate the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, the Washington Post reports.

That estimate comes from a recent study by the Miami Herald?s Carol Rosenberg, who has covered Gitmo since 2002. According to Rosenberg, the U.S. will spend $454 million this year to maintain the facility and pay troop salaries, among other fees ? a little under half a billion dollars.

With only 166 prisoners, that works out to an annual cost of about $2.7 million per detainee. For a point of comparison, California spends an annual $47,000 per prisoner, according to a 2010 study from that state?s government.

According to the Post, Rosenberg?s study serves as a reminder of the tremendous cost and inefficiency of running Gitmo and why the detention facility has been such a thorn in the side of the Obama administration.

In January 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order to close the camp, but the process has been stymied at every turn by a veritable Gordian knot of political and legal obstacles as well as national security concerns. Finding a place to put the prisoners if Gitmo were shuttered has been a contentious issue in both domestic politics and international diplomacy.

?I think for a lot of Americans, the notion is out of sight, out of mind,? Obama said at a press conference in April, insisting he would resume efforts to close the prison. ?I?m going to go back at it because I think it?s important.?

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Bride with less than 6 months to live gets dream wedding

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Jen Bulik and her husband, Jeff Lang, tied the knot on July 27. Even though the bride has terminal lung cancer, she chose to use this day to celebrate life and love.

Jen Bulik has been dreaming about her wedding day ever since she was a little girl.

But she never thought it would turn out like this.

Diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer this past January, doctors have given the 35-year-old San Jose woman less than six months left to live. The news came as a shock to Bulik and her boyfriend of six years, Jeff Lang. Time has been slipping quickly out of her hands, but on Saturday, Bulik was finally able to stop and celebrate life.

Wearing a flowing pastel green wedding gown and clutching flowers in her hands, Bulik walked down the aisle with her head bared.

?I had a wig that I was going to wear,? Bulik told The News. ?But then I thought about it and when I look back at these pictures I didn?t want to feel inauthentic. I wanted to be totally me.?

Bulik and Lang were planning on having a simple backyard wedding, with fold-out tables and paper plates. But when?wedding planner Erica Ota?heard the couple?s story, she wanted to give Bulik much more than that.

Ota was a hospital social worker before she dove into the wedding industry three years ago. The Brown University alumni decided to donate her time to this bride in honor of all the patients she had lost to cancer over the years.

With less than two weeks to plan, Ota was able to secure 65 Bay Area vendors who donated their professional services.

July 27 is prime wedding season, a time when most wedding vendors have their events booked nine months in advance. But the vendors were so touched by Bulik and Lang?s love story that some decided to hire additional staff to make sure the event went just as planned. Nearly everything at the wedding ? from the gluten-free candy bar to the bridal bouquet ? was offered free of charge. In total, the donations came to about $52,000.

?I?m in awe,? Bulik said. ?I just feel so supported and validated for how graceful the whole process has been for me ? it has come with a lot of grace.?

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During the ceremony, the bridesmaids and groomsmen danced down the aisle to Blind Melon?s ?No Rain? while Bulik chose to walk to Frank Sinatra?s ?My Way.?

Using the?bride?s wedding Pinterest board?for inspiration, Ota planned a ?rustic chic? wedding reception, complete with mason jars, twine and lemonade.

The bride used potted succulents as wedding favors, little plants that will continue to grow when she?s gone.

She also wore three different wigs to the reception, giving guests a surprise each time she came out.

The couple?s first dance was to Lady Gaga?s ?Edge of Glory.? Listening to the lyrics ? ?I?m on the edge of glory, and I?m hanging on a moment of truth? ? Ota said there wasn?t a dry eye in sight.

?She was glowing,? Ota told The News. ?She didn?t look like somebody who was sick, who was told they have a few months to live. She was so vibrant and radiant.?

Now that the wedding is over, Bulik said she is still trying to wrap herself around the next few months. It will be tough, she says, but life can still be beautiful.

?Cancer is not easy. It takes a lot to get up in the morning sometimes,? Bulik said. ?I guess what?s important is to find that source of hope within yourself and the courage to keep going forward.?

Erica Ota has started a GiveForward campaign to help pay for Jen Bulik?s medical expenses and for her family?s last vacation together. To donate, click?here.

On a mobile device? Click?here?to view the video.

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Threat closes US embassies in Muslim world for day

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks to staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. The Obama administration hasn't sent its top diplomat to Pakistan since 2011, and Kerry's trip is a chance for the former senator to get to know the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who came to power in Pakistan's first transition between civilian governments.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks to staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. The Obama administration hasn't sent its top diplomat to Pakistan since 2011, and Kerry's trip is a chance for the former senator to get to know the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who came to power in Pakistan's first transition between civilian governments.

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The United States is shuttering its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday after receiving an unspecified threat, officials said.

State Department officials said Thursday that they were taking action out of an "abundance of caution."

Spokeswoman Marie Harf cited information indicating a threat to U.S. facilities overseas and said some diplomatic facilities may stay closed for more than a day.

Other U.S. officials said the threat was in the Muslim world, where Sunday is a workday. American diplomatic missions in Europe, Latin America and many other places are closed on Sunday.

Those officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

The State Department issued a major warning last year informing American diplomatic facilities across the Muslim world about potential violence connected to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Dozens of American installations were besieged by protest over an anti-Islam video made by an American resident.

In Benghazi, Libya, the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed when militants assaulted a diplomatic post. The administration no longer says that attack was related to the demonstrations.

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