Keep Pets Safe this Thanksgiving
This week we celebrate Thanksgiving, remembering everything for which we are grateful with family and friends, recalling the Pilgrims first harvest and, of course, eating the Thanksgiving feast! As always, we want our pets to share in our holidays—they are part of our families after all. But, we also want to keep them safe and healthy now and in the coming years so Patton Veterinary Hospital offers the following tips to keep pets protected this Thanksgiving.
Ask your guests not to feed your pets any food from the table, no matter how terrible Aunt Bethany’s gelatin mold is this year and make sure pets do not have access to trash—put a lid on it, take it outside, or otherwise secure your garbage cans so pets can’t get into it.
If Snoopy or Garfield does become ill after eating holiday foods (obtained accidentally, of course!) or manages to raid the trash anyway, contact your vet or an animal emergency center if needed.Patton has regular hours from 8AM to 8PM on November 23, 2018, but we want you to spend those hours shopping Black Friday deals, not sitting in our office!
We hope these tips help both the two- and four- legged members of your family have a safe and relatively sane holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from the Patton Veterinary Hospital!
This blog brought to you by the Patton Veterinary Hospital serving Red Lion, York and the surrounding communities.
https://www.avma.org/public/PetCare/Pages/thanksgiving-pet-safety.aspx
425 E Broadway
Red Lion, PA 17356