From Food to Travel: Protecting Your Pets During Thanksgiving Festivities

Author: Lauren Piandes

Thanksgiving is almost here, can you believe it? While we get ready for food, parties, and travelling, we need to keep our pets in mind! Here are the ways we can prepare ourselves and our pets for Thanksgiving:   First Things First: The first thing to do before any holiday party, travel, or pet-sitting event […]

Keeping Halloween Spook-Free for Pets

Author: Lauren Piandes
Category: Holidays, Pet Safety

Keeping Halloween Spook-Free for Pets By Lauren Piandes While Halloween is full of treats, spooks, and good times for humans, it’s often filled with potential dangers for pets! We’ve put together a short list of ways that you can make the holiday season fun for you and your furry family.   Don’t Share Candy with […]

What Makes a Good Photo of Your Pet for PetLink?

Author: Lauren Piandes

Let’s be honest: we LOVE taking photos of our pets. We don’t hesitate to take out our phones when they’re playing, sitting and staring at something, or doing probably the cutest thing they dare to do: going to sleep. But not all the photos we take of our pets are the best to be shared […]

Check the Chip Day for You and Your Pet

Author: Lauren Piandes

Check the Chip Day is August 15th! It’s also known as PetLink’s favorite pet-based holiday. There are steps you can take to ensure your pet’s microchip is doing its job properly. The most important of these are: Registering your pet with up-to-date contact information, such as current phone numbers, email addresses, and alternate contacts. Remember: […]

National Lost Pet Prevention Month Series: Fear and Loud, Noisy Holidays

Author: Lauren Piandes
Category: Pet Safety

This may be a no-brainer for us seasoned pet owners, but animals become frightened much more easily than us humans do. Sometimes, we have no idea what is scaring them, but they are already halfway down the street before we can process what has happened. To help our pets, especially during loud events or holidays […]

National Lost Pet Prevention Month Series: Open Doors and Windows

Author: Lauren Piandes
Category: Pet Safety

As we experience warmer weather, we’re all ready and willing to fling our windows open, get out in the yard, hang out on the porch, etc. Before doing all of that, we must remember that open doors and windows create the perfect escape route for our pets! Here are some ways that we can prevent […]

What Does it Actually Do? Clearing Up Microchip Myths

Author: Lauren Piandes

There are a lot of rumors floating around the internet as to what microchips do and do not do for your pets. We’ve put together some common misconceptions and are determined to break those microchipping myths! Myth 1: A Microchip Can Track Your Pet False A microchip is as small as a grain of rice; […]

Thanksgiving Travel Tips for Pets

Author: Lauren Piandes
Category: Holidays, Pet Safety

The holidays are right around the corner and some of us may be preparing to travel to see relatives and friends this season. You may be planning to bring your furry pal with you, and that’s where PetLink comes in to help! Here are some tips on how to prepare your pet for holiday travel: […]

Are You and Your Pets Disaster Ready?

Author: Lauren Piandes
Category: Pet ID, Pet Safety
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It seems like hardly a week goes by that we aren’t hearing about a natural or man-made disaster on the news. Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, hazardous waste spills, floods, gas leaks and other catastrophic events put our families and our pets at risk with frightening speed and regularity