Working from home with your dog or cat
The corona crisis has caused a lot of fear and uncertainty. That makes sense. Your animal can therefore also be a bit upset. Dogs and cats often capture our emotions flawlessly. It can be a bit strange for them to see you scared, angry, or sad. Maybe because of this your animal tries to contact you a little more, or maybe he avoids you a little more because you are a little out of your mind. Read our tips for working from home with your dog or cat below!
Stay calm
It’s just how it is. You cannot change the situation and the people around you, but you can influence your own behavior. The calmer and calmer you stay, the better it is for your animal. After all, you are his rock! Are you concerned that your four-legged friend could also suffer from the coronavirus? We have presented the most frequently asked questions about the coronavirus in cats and dogs to veterinarian Atjo Westerhuis of EduVet.
Provide rhythm
If you are more at home or work, try to keep to the familiar rhythm as much as possible, for example walking and feeding. Keep your own rhythm as much as possible not only for your animal but also for yourself, for example, the same working hours at home as at the office. Don’t forget that you will soon have to return to the old rhythm of being away from home and/or working.
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Everything at home?
Hoarding is really not necessary.
Hoarding is really not necessary. It is useful to check whether you have enough of everything at home because delivery times can now sometimes be slightly longer than normal. Then it is nice that you do not find out at the last minute that your food is almost finished or the strip of medicine for your dog or cat is almost empty.
Distraction
If you work from home, your dog or cat can provide some nice distraction, but also distract you from your work. Does your animal come to lie with you? Then provide an extra basket, rug, or pillow near your workplace. Does your animal keep asking for attention and can you therefore not work properly undisturbed? You can optionally place a gate or screen door in the doorway to your workspace so that your animal can hear, see and smell you, but not constantly climb on your lap or walk over your keyboard. Provide something fun to play with or treats to chew. Make a ball pit for your cat or put your dog to work with toddler sausage!
Don’t feel guilty
Don’t feel too guilty if, even though you may be at home a lot now, you don’t feel like, have the time or opportunities to do anything with your animal during these strange times. If you don’t mind that, you don’t have to come up with all kinds of special things to keep your dog or cat busy. Just look at livesofstreeties how free-living dogs in India spend their day. They lie a lot. Just to sleep, or quietly on the lookout. Perhaps your dog or cat can relax in the garden or on the balcony now that you are at home.
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Nice things
But it may also be that you now have the time and desire to do fun things with your animal. This is possible if due to the current circumstances you have few options to really get out and about, just in the house or garden. Surprise your dog with garden sausage or choose from these fun keepers for your cat.
Especially for the kids
Do you have children at home? Then go tinkering together! For example, make a sniffing heart or ghost for your dog or cat together with the kids. And even if you are temporarily unable to go to school, there is always something to learn. For example, use these great tips about the interaction between child and dog.
Need help?
If you have specific questions about the coronavirus and pets, you can always contact our veterinary clinic EduVet. Do you have another question about your pet? Then contact our CareTeam. We are happy to help you with good advice, a listening ear, or just an arm around your shoulder.
Vitamin L
Now that we have to limit our social contacts it can be a bit lonely, all that being at home or working from home. But instead of catching up at the lunch table or by the coffee machine, you can now just cuddle up with your furry colleague for some much-needed vitamin L (love). Being together is the most important thing. Always, but certainly now. We at Prins now also work at home together with our four-legged friends! Below you can see colleague Jasmin from online marketing with her cat Charlie and copywriter Judith enjoying a beautiful view of her puppy Stitch while working from home.
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The excitement of finding a perfect companion can be great when looking for a puppy, kitten or exotic animals and pets of a specific breed, and this makes people often turn to online sales sites. Surely you have observed that more and more people are opting to buy in an online pet store, and it is that it is a very interesting alternative that brings great benefits to the buyer, AnimalsSale.com is the website where you can buy or sell animals in the US, UK, Europe and other countries. You can find on their website full information about all dogs’ breeds, advice from experts on how to take care of puppies and kittens and other interesting information.
So here we are going to discover some of the most peculiarities of buying a pet from an online store. Featured.
Advantages of buying from a pet store
Today more and more people decide to have an animal in their family. For this reason, the opening of stores where they can buy any product or service dedicated to pets is becoming more and more frequent. According to some statistics, between 40% or 50% of families have a pet, so we must know well the offers in the market to be able to give our pets the best for their health and comfort.
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Immense variety in offers
These premises, often have a huge variety of items for pets. For this reason, we can use them to obtain bags of feed for dogs of different sizes, sweets, food products, clothes for dogs, toys, cages (in the case of rodents), etc.
Unlike shopping centres and supermarkets where we find a limited amount of items for our pets. In a pet store, we can find different things more specific to your needs.
In addition, there are also offers on pets and we can find a wide variety of animal species (if the establishment is a large company). In these places, the animals are usually kept in good condition and the employees are in charge of cleaning the cages daily.
Quality Products
Also, the advantage of buying in a specialized pet store is that we can find good quality products at their price. And it is that the prices themselves are usually quite accessible.
Quality is still an important detail when purchasing a product and/or service. In these places, there are usually articles of a quality more than enough to fulfil their function.
In addition, we have the products organized according to the type of pet and this helps to find what we need and more quickly. This saves time and unnecessary wandering in the store.
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Something important to note is that the products that are sold in specialized stores are usually from recognized brands and that they will also give us a guarantee. More if it is something that our pet has to ingest.
This really is important, because we cannot give anything to our pet. They could get sick if what they eat is in bad condition and if so, we must quickly claim it from the place of purchase. But in these places, the quality of the products is taken care of.
Preparedness for customer service
Another advantage is that we can have personalized attention based on our requests. There are always people around the premises who can guide us in our purchase and tell us which product suits us best for our needs.
This is extremely important since many times we can go to these stores and not be clear about what brand or what characteristics in the article can be better for our pet. This is a great advantage of buying from these stores.
Personnel in charge of customer service are often people who love animals and spend their time learning about pets. The best advice to buy is from people with a lot of experience.
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