Serving the animals in their time of need!

Pet Care

          “How many times have us pet lovers heard ‘It’s just a cat’ or ‘it’s just a dog’. I’ve never known ‘just a dog’, and I doubt I’ll ever meet ‘just a cat’. Perhaps the people making these comments at one point in their life had ‘just a dog’ that lived in the back yard and was chained to a tree year-round and never given the chance to be more. Maybe they were never loved by an animal and never got to love one in return.”
Matt Adams, from “Paw Prints”
The newsletter of Maxfund, a no-kill shelter, in Denver, Colorado


          There are a lot of universal ideas out there to help pet owners how to keep a healthy and happy animal as part of their household. We are attempting to give some ideas on care that is necessary in the upper Wind River Valley for our particular weather and conditions. Please contact us if you have an idea that is not shown here.

           If your animal spends most of his/her time outdoors be sure that there is adequate wind protection available, from both the west and the east. A way into an out building for a cat (a cracked window or small cut door), or a doghouse, also gives protection from blowing snow (and the rain we seldom have here!) The WFCHS sometimes has doghouses that can be borrowed as needed if the cost of purchasing one is beyond the owner’s means.
        Please provide shelter!

          With a highway running through the middle of town, handling trucks as well as visitors on the way to the parks, it is dangerous to let dogs run loose, even late at night. Please keep them confined to a yard.

          As we all know wildlife share our town with us, and all the open areas around us. Do not let your dogs chase deer or other wildlife. The Game and Fish have rules that allow animals doing so to be shot. Control, even while hiking, is the key word.

          We recommend the obedience classes offered each year by the Central Wyoming College Extension in Dubois. Contact our veterinarian, Dr. Carolyn Copeland, for more information. Voice control, especially if your dog has wandered across a street and is ready to run back to you as a car approaches, can save a life.

          More Dubois thoughts coming later!