Do you want a long and healthy life for your pets?

There are things in our pets' environments that can rob them of precious health and long life. I'm not talking about cars accidents and mean kids in neighborhood. I'm talking about things inside home. Things like:

1) Food Food is meant to be good tasting and good for you. The same applies to our pets. Unfortunately, both people food and pet food are full of stuff. And most of this stuff isn't found growing naturally.

Manufacturers have taken place of growers and cooks. To make foods taste better things are added.

To make foods last forever on store shelf, things are added. For example, tomatoes are now designed to look good after a long trip to store. They are not grown to be nutritious and safe.

On TV we see reports about how additives, preservatives and stuff are making our children unhealthy. The same thing applies to our pets' food.

Preservatives keep food fresh by altering DNA of creatures living on food. What do these preservatives do to DNA of child or pet eating them?

See where I'm going?

Altered hormones, cell mutations (cancer), sickness !!!

The only way to minimize this stuff in our pet's food is to make food ourselves. There are recipes all over web for kitchen literate.

http://www.simplypets.com http://www.bullwrinkle.com

Most people don't have time to make their pet's food and treats. There are places where good wholesome pet foods can be purchased.

Another thing I have always loved is animal art. It could be photographs, paintings, statues or even dog cartoons.

I don't really know why I like them, but I do. I've noticed there are a lot of other animal art lovers out there too. It seems to be a natural connection.

People with children often have a ton of pictures of thier children. People with pets are not that different. They see beauty in animals and want to have it to look at.

So how can we take this knowledge and turn it into a great gift idea? Well, there are a few different things that come to mind here.

One I like is getting a great picture of dog you love and converting it to a black and white picture, then framing it and putting an inscription on frame.