I sat in this week on a Community Connection zoom meeting hosted by Milestone Recovery. Milestone’s mission is to “provide compassionate care and services to empower individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illnesses and homelessness to attain an enhanced quality of life regardless of ability to pay.” The work they do is endless and the need has only been growing. Among the services Milestone provides…
Our Portland Store is Moving
We’ve got new digs! Our Portland store has moved to a brand new space about a half mile east, at 5 India Street! We are in, and we are open! 11/21/22 We opened today at 10am! If you don’t mind navigating around a few boxes yet to be unpacked, we’d love to see you! 11/20/22 We start moving at noon today, and we’ll keep going…
How to Teach Your Dog to Swim
Say your dog wades but won’t swim. Do you let it go at that, or decide you’re going to teach your dog to swim? I have no doubt what the answer is for me. All dogs deserve to experience the joy and the physical and emotional good feeling and freedom that swimming brings them. Swimming feels good The water is exciting to dogs. It’s is…
PFDs for Dogs – Our Picks
Just like people, not all dogs are designed well for swimming. Most breeds do not have the Lab’s famous webbed toes, and some breeds are in fact particularly water-challenged by their short noses and deep chests. Some dogs are actually well-designed for the water, but don’t trust it, and their fear of not being able to touch bottom keeps them from partaking of one of…
Anxiety in Pets: Fireworks & Thunderstorms
Who doesn’t love fireworks and wild summer thunderstorms? A lot of anxious pets…that’s who! Summer is ‘Anxiety Season’ for us at The Fish & Bone. And it’s not just because of weather and pyrotechnics. Summer means road trips, visitors from away, open windows that allow in loud neighborhood noise like construction – and often long days at the beach with pets home alone. Anxiety is…
Flea and Tick Protection & Prevention for Pets
If you are like us and you operate on a ‘natural first’ approach to health, your flea and tick prevention plan for your pets probably makes you wince. We don’t like ticks – and especially don’t like the diseases they can carry – but we definitely don’t like using toxins on our pets either. Chemical flea and tick prevention is a last resort that’s become…
Love from the Inside – 5 Easy Ways
The love that we humans get from our animals every day is so healing and so powerful, it softens even the most hardened among us. Our pets help us through our darkest days and they inspire us to be better humans. What can we possibly do to repay this incredible gift? Our job is to do whatever we can to support their health and happiness….
Dental Chews for Dogs
Dogs in the Wild Didn’t Eat Dental Chews Domesticated dogs are prone to gum disease and tooth decay just like people are. Their ancestors of course didn’t eat dental chews. But they didn’t eat kibble, milk bones or any other processed foods either. Dogs in the wild subsisted on a diet of raw, whole prey that in order to consume had to be chewed and pulverized….