VCA Animal Hospitals offer free boarding – Texas Wildfires

Wildfires continue to ravage drought stricken Texas in one of the most devastating outbreaks in Texas history. Over 1000 homes have been burned to the ground leaving families and their animals homeless. VCA Animal Hospitals have graciously offered to help by boarding pets effected by the wildfire’s destruction. Below is a listing of participating vet hospitals for those of you who reside or have family members living in Texas who affected by the raging wildfires. Thank you VCA!!!!! You are Texas sized angels!

If you are advised to evacuate please do so. Don’t leave your animals behind if you can at all help it, they most likely can not survive on their own. For the rest of us, this is a good reminder to have a disaster readiness plan for our families and pets in the event of an emergency. Do you know what you would do?

VCA ANIMAL HOSPITALS OFFER FREE BOARDING FOR PETS
AFFECTED BY TEXAS WILDFIRES

To help those affected by the fires in Texas, VCA Animal Hospitals today announced that VCA facilities located in the areas surrounding both Austin and Houston are offering free boarding assistance for companion animals whose families have lost homes or have been evacuated. “For residents affected by these devastating wildfires, VCA is continuing to assist them by providing free pet boarding so they focus on the safety and welfare of their families and homes,” said Art Antin, Chief Operating Officer of VCA Animal Hospitals. “During this difficult time, families can keep their pets safe and comfortable with VCA’s free boarding offer.”

VCA Animal Hospitals located in and around Austin and Houston can provide safety and security for affected family pets on a space available basis as long as firestorms persist. The following VCA hospitals are participating in the free boarding program:

VCA Ben White Animal HospitalVCA Northwest Hills Animal HospitalVCA Tanglewood Animal Hospital2110 Slaughter Lane, Suite 120VCA Tomball Veterinary HospitalVCA Woodlands Animal HospitalVCA Spring Animal HospitalVCA Ashford Animal Hospital

Boarding assistance for pets is based on space availability at participating hospitals and owners can call their local VCA in advance to ensure that the facility has space available to accept additional pets. Contact information for the participating VCA Animal Hospitals near the wildfires can be obtained at www.vcahospitals.com.

About VCA Animal Hospitals

VCA Animal Hospitals operates more than 530 animal hospitals in 41 states across the nation in the VCA network. The hospitals are staffed by more than 2,000 fully qualified, dedicated and compassionate veterinarians and more than 200 board-certified specialists. VCA Animal Hospitals provide a full range of general medical and surgical services as well as specialized treatments. For more information on VCA Animal Hospitals, visit www.VCAHospitals.com, or find VCA on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/VCAAnimalHospitals or on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/VCAPetHealth.

Here is the link to the the Texas Forest Service for more information on fires in your area. There are a few names and numbers of ranches that have available boarding for horses floating around on facebook as well. If you know of anyone that can help, please feel free to post the information in the comments section.

Photograph by L.M. Otero, AP

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Winner of Soggy Doggy Doormat — and Special Offer!

At long last we have a winner for the Soggy Doggy doormat giveaway! (Sorry for the delay. Internet overseas was not happening in the days before coming home.) The winner, chosen via Random.org from a whopping 245 entries, is Deb Searles. Here’s what she wrote in the comment we randomly selected as the winner:

I have an akita/wolf mix -Keira- and she loves to lay on her mountains of snow and mud..we live in the woods of maine and altho it does somewhat dry “possibly” in july..most of the time we are in a clay heaven of mud when the snow melts…she has her own towel by the door to scrub her off with when she comes in after the snow or rain but the paws are definitely a challenge….would love to have a soggy door mat to help a lil bit with the paw problem..

Congratulations, Deb! I spent part of my childhood in Maine and know what it’s like this time of year! You will love your new mat.

Now for the special offer: The folks at Soggy Doggy are giving Dogsters who really want a Soggy Doggy doormat a nice deal: If you order a Soggy Doggy doormat between now and Friday evening, you’ll get free shipping (as long as you live in the continental US). Just place your order on the Soggy Doggy site, and you’ll be spared shipping charges during this period!

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Just in Time for the Super Bowl: Exclusive Doggy Beer Offer!

If your dog feels left out of this weekend’s Super Bowl activities because he can’t drink beer, this will put a smile on his snout: Dogster is teaming up with Barking Deals to give you a great deal on Bowser Beer — a non-alcoholic, non-carbonated, hops-free treat for dogs.  Just buy the $5 Bowser Beer voucher from Barking Deals, and go to Bowser Beer website to buy $10 worth of the brew. For the math-challenged among us, that’s half off! (Jake had to tell me.)

But wait! There’s more! If you use this special Dogster code,  exclusive to Dogster readers, you can get 20 percent more off your order! (Jake says that makes a $10 order only $4. He may not know how to fetch, but he’s great with figures.) $10 worth of doggy brew for $4 is so good you’ll want to drink a toast with your dog. There’s no shipping fee, either, so drink another one! Click here to learn more about the benefits of joining Barking Deals.

In case you don’t already know the joys of Bowser Beer, here’s a little dog beer 101, straight from the source:

Available in either chicken or beef flavor, this savory treat is lovingly brewed with malt barley (for shiny coats) and glucosamine (for smooth-moving joints). Fido can drink Bowser Beer as a thirst quenching beverage or it can be poured over dry kibble as a tasty sauce. It’s low in calories and delivers all of the flavor and fun of an actual beer without the pesky side effects (e.g. dehydration, poor decision making, impaired impulse control).

(Gotta love the part about poor decision making. Yeah, I hate it when Jake has a few beers and decides to drive, or get argumentative with the groomer. )

The voucher expires Feb. 8, so hurry and order your dog’s brewskis today!

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