Dog Health Advice: Fur Isn't Such a Good Sunscreen
Written by Joel Walsh
You might think most important bit of dog health advice would be to let your furry loved on spend all day enjoying outdoors. But you'd only be half-right. You know we must protect our children and ourselves and from sun. But do you know that leading canine health experts now say that most important dog health advice they can give is to protect your dog from sun, too? Dog Health Advice: Identifying Dog Sunburn Like us humans, dogs need sunlight to help balance their bodies’ levels of calcium with their metabolism. Yet too much ultraviolet radiation can irritate our dogs’ skin as it does our own, causing sunburn. Identifying Dog Sunburn Dog sunburn begins as redness and hair loss. Where sunburn first appears - bridge of nose
- tips of ears
- belly
Dog Sunburn Dangers - aggravates any existing skin problems
- skin ulcers (sores)
- infection
- cancer
Sunburn and Dog Breed Pale and short-hair dogs are particularly prone to sunburn, usually on nose, abdomen, groin, and inside of legs. Being close to ground, they not only are affected by downward sunlight, but also by sun reflecting up from pavement or hot sand.
| | Pet Retailing- It’s now more than dog food, it’s fashion retailingWritten by John Stanley
In previous articles I’ve often written about trend towards lifestyle retailing. This is reflected in trends in garden and home improvement industries. But, one of most dramatic shifts comes from pet industry, which is going through dramatic changes. Why Pets? Pets aren’t pets anymore, for many people, they are “child” substitutes. In countries such as China and Japan pets are actually replacing child due to government directives to encourage smaller families. In west ‘Generation X’ are starting families later in life to enable them to develop their careers, whilst baby boomers are learning to cope with empty nests. The result is both west and east is seeing same, a pet boom to replace children. This means that traditional pet store is finding it’s increasingly difficult to understand desires of modern pet owner and, as in other retail sectors, traditional retailers are being squeezed out of market place by global pet supermarkets and niche lifestyle pet stores who are reading market differently. I recently conducted a retail workshop in Dubai, for retailers from around Middle East. The Dubai retail scheme is always interesting, throwing up leading edge ideas for those interested in retail trends.
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