Healthy people food for pets in 'Bow & Wow Times'

MANILA, Philippines - Featured on the cover of the recent issue are Rufus & Dimitri, the official winners of the Bow & Wow My Furry Baby & Me contest, with gifts to highlight the theme, “Party Time!”

This month, Bow & Wow Times offers tips and guidelines to help people raise healthy and happy pets and become the best pet parents they can be. Bow & Wow resident veterinarian Dr. Mylene Maranan also sheds light on specific pet concerns, like fungal infection, and how to enhance pooches’ digestive system.

In the Pet Nutrition section there is an article on “Healthy People Food for Pets.” If you are among the pet parents considering to switch your pet from commercial pet food to healthy, homemade dog chow, this article is a must-read.  

With the holidays in our midst, pet parents need to be more alert than ever over the possibility of visiting guests and family members tossing to or emptying into the doggie bowl foods rich, fatty foods that can cause life-threatening conditions like pancreatic. Find out what other foods can be toxic to dogs, along with other hazards that your furry baby may run into by reading the “Top 10 Holiday Pet Hazards.”

If you are a pet parent and pondering on sharing the joys & rewards of raising pets to a close friend or relative by giving a pet as gift, think it over. Remember that a pet is a living, breathing creature and will require many things apart from food and water. Check out the article, “Giving Pets a Home for the Holidays” in the Bow & Wow Times.

In Breed Spotlight, an intelligent breed of cat — the Chartreux takes centerstage. Find out many interesting things about the adaptable, calm and quiet cat that gets along well with children and can live from 15 to 20 years if given enough exercise and a good diet.

Bow & Wow Times is available at Bow & Wow stores at the fifth floor of Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City and at the lower ground floor of Greenbelt 5, Makati City.