☀️🐕🐾🥵Summer Safety Tips☀️🐕🐾🥵
Our pets love summer as much as we do! It's hard for pets to keep cool when the sun is beating down as Pet's do not sweat as people do. Tips to keep your pets safe this summer.
☀️ Heatstroke: To prevent
>Do not leave dogs in cars, even for short time!
> Exercise dogs early morning or late evening.
> Provide plenty of fresh water and shade
> Provide cooling mats or paddling pools or ice cubes in water
> Breeds such as Pugs and Bulldogs are very sensitive to hot weather so as pets with respiratory or heart problems or overweight or older pets.
☀️ Sunburn: Use pet-specific sunblock to prevent sunburn to white or pink skin areas of your pets particularly where hair coat is sparse such as Belly, Nose and Pinna tips.
☀️ Groomings: Clip pets with thick hair coat particularly around face and belly.
☀️ Hot surfaces: 5 Second Rule. Put back of your hand on the pavement or sand for 5 seconds. If it's too hot for you then your pet should not be walking on it.
☀️ Bee stings: Can cause an allergic reaction. Do not remove the sting with tweezers as this can squeeze the poison sac, rather flick it out with a plastic card and seek advice from your vet.
☀️ Grass seeds can cause severe problems as they can migrate into the skin. Avoid long grass. Check your pet's feet and the belly for any grass seeds and remove them.
Scam Alert: Fake information regarding December Bonuses from MSD
The Ministry of Social Development is reporting that fake information is circulating about new ‘December bonuses’ or ‘benefit increases’
If you get suspicious communication, please contact Netsafe.
Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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41.7% Yes
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33.5% Maybe?
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24.8% No
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
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