Cloudburst Dog Jacket from West Paw Design - New Product!

The Cloudburst Dog Jacket by West Paw Design is an eco-friendly and fashion-forward way to provide comfort and protection on rainy days. This dog jacket is made with 100% recycled polyester fabric that is also recyclable using West Paw Design's innovative Closed Loop recycling program.

Your dog will love to go dancing in the rain in eco-friendly style! Reflective flares on the back of the jacket provides additional safety on those dark evening walks. The jacket is machine washable in cold water and hangs dry. Made proudly in the USA in Bozeman, Montana.

Sizes available for large and small dog breeds. Priced from $55.99.

Compostable Training Pads - New Product!

Natural Biodegradable Training Pads from Simple Solution are a sustainable way to train your pet to eliminate in a preferred area. These natural training pads are useful both to potty-training puppies and to control elimination in elderly or sick adult dogs. Each pad contains a special attractant to encourage elimination on the pad. Pads are 21.5" x 23.5".

These natural training pads biodegrade faster than an orange peel! They are completely free of petroleum-based materials. The entire product and packaging are certified 100% biodegradable and compostable. Made in the USA.

Natural Biodegradable Training Pads: $24.00 for 22 Pads

Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine

Our Build Your Own Bumper Bed by West Paw Design was featured in Portland Monthly Magazine's Pet-a-Portland article in the online edition. (We are slide 6 in the slideshow.)

Photo: Kim Nguyen

Sleep tight There's plenty of room for restless sleepers in a spacious and orthopedic bed filled with recycled InteliLoft polyfill pillow stuffing, which provides a cloud of comfort. It also comes in eighty-one different color combinations for vibrant dreams about chasing rabbits. Bumper Bed by West Paw Design. $63.99–$155.99 @ urbanleashandtreat.com

Our Products Not Affected by Peanut Butter Recall

By now, we've all heard about the widespread peanut butter recall due to Salmonella contamination from Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia. We know that, like us, you take this situation very seriously.

All our products are unaffected by the peanut butter recall. We have spoken with all our manufacturers. They all have attested that their peanut butter pet food treats are not sourced from Peanut Corporation of America and are not affected by the recall.

Here is the official FDA peanut butter recall website. You can browse and search the list of recalled human and animal food products by UPC and brand name.

We have verified that all our products with peanut butter ingredients are unaffected by the FDA recall. These peanut butter treats are safe to feed to your pets:

	Organic Peanut Butter Madness Buddy Biscuits by Cloud Star $6.29 - $10.49
	Peanut Butter Chewies by Simon and Huey $9.43
	Peanut Butter Molasses Soft Training Treats by Paws Gourmet $6.29 - $10.49

In addition, these manufacturers have proactively announced that all their product lines are unaffected:

• Sojourner Farms (aka Sojos)
• A Dog's Life
• Cloud Star (makers of Organic Buddy Biscuits)

Saved by the Animal Poison Control Center

The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center is a 24 x 7 x 365 phone hotline (888-426-4435) staffed by veterinary toxicologists to answer animal poisoning questions. The Animal Poison Control Center is a fee-for-service hotline that costs $60 for a phone consultation and unlimited follow-up calls from you or your veterinarian.

This morning, the Animal Poison Control Center saved our dog Nixon.

Nixon On a Non-Poisoned Day this Winter

Family and shop dog Nixon thought it would be funny to steal a plastic prescription bottle when we weren't looking. We were not yet caffeinated. Before we became fully aware of her mischief, Nixon had chewed off the safety cap and downed the rest of the pills.

To put it mildly, we totally freaked out! OK, well, um, maybe it was just me hyperventilating. Nixon is a Lab, nothing freaks her except for the garbage man. Kim is a former veterinary technician and had a game plan.

We immediately called our vet who advised us to call the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center. The toxicologist told us that the medicine that Nixon ingested was not fatal. We needed to induce vomiting as quickly as possible to get it out. If we couldn't induce quickly - off to the emergency vet clinic we would go. The toxicologist taught us how to induce vomiting in our dog using hydrogen peroxide. Nixon took a long time to vomit - far longer than the instructions said to expect. In fact, we were about 2 blocks from the emergency animal hospital when she finally threw up in our car.

I have never been so happy to clean up dog vomit in my life!

It is now about six hours post-poisoning and Nixon is doing fine. She's a bit lethargic, but no more than expected after being made to drink peroxide and run around in the front yard (to speed up the vomiting).

Thanks to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (888-426-4435), for providing a lifesaving service for pet owners.