By: H.R. Pets Best Insurance Editorial Manager Taking your pooch to the dog park is not only good for pet health, but it can also be entertaining for the pet owner. Have you ever noticed all the creative pet names? Sometimes they’re not only funny, they’re downright bizarre. “Here Nigel Butt-Sniffer, come here boy!” These [...]

By: Dr. Jack Stephens, DVM Pets Best Insurance President The warm season will soon be upon us, and if you live somewhere with long winters (like I do) then you’ll be ready for it! However, if you often travel by vehicle with your pet, then you need to be aware that leaving your pet in [...]

By: Dr. Jack Stephens, DVM Pets Best Insurance President For years I have been promoting the power of pets for human health and well being. Although I knew even as a child that pets had a strong effect on our feelings, it was not until 1979 that I witnessed it first-hand as I watched a [...]

By: Drew Mayes Guest Blog Growing up as an American male you learn that bigger is better. When we’re kids, we want a bigger piece of cake than our buddy (even if it’s his birthday party). And by the time high school rolls around, we want a big truck and even bigger muscles. That’s what [...]

By: H. R. Pets Best Insurance Editorial Manager Pet owner Julie Fukuhara, of Palo, Alto, CA, said her dog Turbo (a “Puggle” who is a crossbreed between a Pug and a Beagle) began acting strangely one evening. “He was walking a little wobbly,” she said of her floppy-eared-pooch. Although she was initially worried about Turbo, [...]

By: H. R. Pets Best Insurance Editorial Manager Is Fluffy biting your fiancé’s pant legs again? Does Priscilla persistently hiss when your boyfriend or girlfriend walks through the door? It’s not unusual for pets to take a dislike to someone new in your life— it’s not unusual either for that new someone to dislike your [...]

By: Chryssa Rich Pets Best Insurance Marketing Associate Where can you order cable TV, buy a rubber broom, take your picture with a tortoise, adopt a puppy and enjoy a mango Italian ice? That would be the Family Fun Pet Expo, held in Boise, Idaho last weekend. For the team at Pets Best Insurance, it [...]

By: H. R. Pets Best Insurance Editorial Manager You’re driving along in your car, rocking out to Guns n’ Roses, (or something equivalent) when all of the sudden a scraggly-looking dog darts across the road. Maybe you’re already late for work, or in a hurry to get home. Either way you’re not sure what to [...]