S.M. Chavey, San Antonio Express-News Updated 2:12 pm, Monday, June 18, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-10', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 10', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-15', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 15', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-20', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery … [Read more...] about Family-owned Cibolo pet supply store to close up after 14 years
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Bentley’s Pet Stuff opens this week in Algonquin
A new store catering to your favorite furry friends is set for its grand opening along the Randall Road corridor this weekend. Bentley's Pet Stuff is opening Friday, June 22, in Algonquin, on the west side of Randall Road in front of the Algonquin Walmart. On Saturday and Sunday, June 23 and 24, the first 50 customers to the new store at 1492 S. Randall Road will get a free goody bag for their pet.Owner Lisa Senafe is excited to be coming to the area, she said."Bentley's Pet Stuff is family owned and community grown," she said. "We are very excited to open this location off Randall Road, a thriving shopping area."The first Bentley's Pet Stuff store opened 10 years ago. Founder Lisa Senafe's goal was, and still is, to provide healthy, natural products for pets to help them live long and healthy lives.In 2008, she had recently lost two of her beloved cats to illness. She decided to take a closer look at what she was feeding her pets and was shocked at the ingredient lists.Senafe … [Read more...] about Bentley’s Pet Stuff opens this week in Algonquin
Submissions Wanted: Send us photos of you and your pets!
INtown will be featuring photos of our readers with their pet (or pets). Grab your pup, kitty, rabbit, guinea pig or other critters and pucker up for the camera. Send your high resolution images by July 18 to [email protected] Be sure to include your name and your pets’ names. … [Read more...] about Submissions Wanted: Send us photos of you and your pets!
SNAP Needs Our Help, But We Need Them More to Battle Pet Homelessness
The S.O.S. distress flag went up earlier this month for Spay-Neuter Assistance Program, Inc. You don't kick a dog while it's down and the network of mobile and stationary veterinary clinics can't take much more. An idiot arsonist set fire to his own business, killing one firefighter and forcing its strip mall neighbor, the San Antonio SNAP clinic, to scramble for new housing. That was in May 2017 and, while none of the surgical patients overnighting at the clinic were harmed, it was a huge blow to the clinic and the community."We had to get permission for our team to go in and get essential things while arson investigators checked for structural soundness," says Les R. Wood, SNAP's grants and contracts coordinator. "Just uprooting from one day to the next to move a veterinary clinic was a herculean task."We kept going but people didn't know where to find us, our systems were down and of course more expenses were incurred," adds Wood. That fire also marked the … [Read more...] about SNAP Needs Our Help, But We Need Them More to Battle Pet Homelessness
N.J. pets in need: June 18, 2018
Some fun and interesting facts about cats and dogs from Nationwide pet insurance: * Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet, the only way they can discharge heat is by panting. Cats do not have sweat glands. * Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears. * A cat can jump as much as seven times its height. * Dogs do not have an appendix. * Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. * Using their swiveling ears like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate the source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second. * A cat's tongue is scratchy because it's lined with papillae--tiny elevated backwards hooks that help to hold prey in place. * When faced with the choice of going the way around something that untangles herself or the way that makes it worse, my dog will choose the wrong way 101 times out of 100. Greg Hatala may be reached at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter @GregHatala. Find Greg … [Read more...] about N.J. pets in need: June 18, 2018