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Discover informative articles about pet care, adoption stories, and the latest news from Pet Savers of Shreveport. Our team shares insights and tips to help you provide the best care for your furry friends.
- Pawsitive Benefits of Pets — Overview of physical, mental, and social benefits pets provide, research-backed wellbeing effects, and how adopting from shelters strengthens communities and helps homeless animals.
- Cat Care — Practical cat-care advice covering nutrition, litter-box setup, grooming, health checks, behavior, enrichment, and transition tips for new adopters to keep cats healthy and stress-free.
- Hot Paws (Summer Safety) — Summer safety tips for pets: protecting paws from hot pavement, signs of heat-related injury, cooling strategies, basic first-aid, and when to seek veterinary help.
- No-Kill Shelters Explained — Explains no-kill shelter principles, success metrics, operational challenges, community responsibilities, and how local policies and resources affect outcomes for homeless pets.
- Service Animal or ESA? — Defines differences between service animals and emotional support animals, legal access rights, documentation myths, handler responsibilities, and guidance for seeking reasonable accommodation.
- Sit, Stay, Love — Heartfelt adoption stories celebrating rescued pets and their new families; illustrates recovery, bonding, and the long-term commitment of adopting a shelter animal.
- Tips for Training — Positive, practical training tips for dogs and puppies: basic commands, socialization, consistency, reward-based techniques, and safe approaches to common behavior problems.
- Until They Are Fixed — Information on the importance of spay/neuter, pre/post-operative care, behavioral impacts, population control, and where to find low-cost sterilization resources.
- Why Adopt Senior Pets? — Benefits of adopting senior pets: calm temperaments, lower exercise needs, health-care considerations, senior-specific care tips, and why seniors make loving companions.