Cat and Dog Blog

Reviews on the life vests from the ASPCA?

I need to get a life jacket for my dog, because we are going boating next week. I was looking at the ones at ASPCA.com.
Are there any good/bad reviews about them?

not that i know of

Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket L for Dogs 50-90 Lb -( 1500 , Paws Aboard ) $39.99 Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket L for Dogs 50-90 lbsThe NEW Dog Safety Life Jacket byPaws Aboard provide the ultimate in buoyancy and high visibility, to keep your dog safe while enjoying water sports or boating. Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are designed with a cozy & secure fit, and feature an advancedbreathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and drying. This helps ensure more comfort for your dog, along with healthier conditions than traditional petlife jackets (which are made with neoprene that can cause heat exhaustion and chafing.Features & Benefits of Paws Aboard Dog SafetyLife JacketsMade from an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and dryingReflective strips for maximum visibilityHandle grip on top for quick and easy grabbingAdjustable nylon straps & quick-release bucklesHeavy-duty (yet more comfortable) Velcro fastening system around belly & neck for a secure fitLarge (L)Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are ideal for active medium-sized dogs, such as: Boxers / BulldogsColliesDalmationsGerman ShepherdsRetrieversNeed a Different Size? Lookin for a different size or model?Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are available in 6 distinctive sizes, to ensure proper fit & safety for every dog breed & size. Refer to the sizing chart below for more specific sizing information.

Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket M for Dogs 20-50 Lb -( 1400 , Paws Aboard ) $39.99 Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket M for Dogs 20-50 lbs TheNEW Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket by Paws Aboard provide the ultimate in buoyancy and high visibility, to keep your dog safe while enjoying water sports or boating. Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are designed with a cozy & secure fit, and feature an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and drying. This helps ensure more comfort for your dog, along with healthier conditions than traditional pet life jackets (which are made with neoprene that can cause heat exhaustion and chafing. Features & Benefits of Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life JacketsMade from an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and dryingReflective strips for maximum visibilityHandle grip on top for quick and easy grabbingAdjustable nylon straps & quick-release bucklesHeavy-duty (yet more comfortable) Velcro fastening system around belly & neck for a secure fit Medium (M)Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are ideal for active medium-sized dogs, such as:BeaglesCocker SpanielsBorder ColliesWelsh Corgies Need a Different Size? Lookin for a different size or model?Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are available in 6 distinctive sizes, to ensure proper fit & safety for every dog breed & size. Refer to the sizing chart below for more specific sizing information.

Nautical Print Dog Safety Life Jacket M for Dogs 20-50 lbs (N1400, Paws Abord) $39.99 Nautical Dog Safety Life Jacket M for Dogs 20-50 lbs TheNEW Nautical Dog Safety Life Jacket by Paws Aboard provide the ultimate in buoyancy and high visibility, to keep your dog safe while enjoying water sportsor boating. Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are designed with a cozy & secure fit, and feature an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and drying. This helps ensure more comfort for your dog, along with healthier conditions than traditional pet life jackets (which are made with neoprene that can cause heat exhaustion and chafing. Features & Benefits of Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life JacketsMade from an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and dryingReflective strips for maximum visibilityHandle grip on top for quick and easy grabbingAdjustable nylon straps & quick-release bucklesHeavy-duty (yet more comfortable) Velcro fastening system around belly & neck for a secure fit Medium (M)Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jacketsare ideal for active medium-sized dogs, such as: BeaglesCocker SpanielsBorder ColliesWelsh CorgiesNeed a Different Size? Lookin for a different size or model? Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are available in 6 distinctive sizes, to ensure proper fit & safety for every dog breed & size. Refer to the sizing chart below for more specific sizing information.

Original Yellow Dog Safety Life jacket XL for Dogs over 90 lbs (Paws Aboard 1600) $42.99 Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket XL for Dogs over 90 lbs TheNEW Original Yellow Dog Safety Life Jacket by Paws Aboard provide the ultimate in buoyancy and high visibility, to keep your dog safe while enjoying water sports or boating. Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are designed with a cozy & secure fit, and feature an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and drying. This helps ensure more comfort for your dog, along with healthier conditions than traditional pet life jackets (which are made with neoprene that can cause heat exhaustion and chafing.Features & Benefits of Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life JacketsMade from an advanced breathable mesh underbelly, for proper draining and dryingReflective strips for maximum visibility Handle grip ontop for quick and easy grabbingAdjustable nylon straps & quick-release bucklesHeavy-duty (yet more comfortable) Velcro fastening system around belly & neck for a secure fit Extra Large (XL)Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are deisgned to fit even the largest breeds, including:Doberman PinscherGreat DaneIrish WolfhoundRottweilerSaint BernardNeed a Different Size? Lookin for a different size or model?Paws Aboard Dog Safety Life Jackets are available in 6 distinctive sizes, to ensure proper fit & safety for every dog breed & size. Refer to the sizing chart below for more specific sizing information.

Is it possible to learn to be optomistic when you have been pessimistic your entire life?

I’ve always found the worst in everything since I was a little girl. I am very realistic so I see things as they are and I can’t delude myself or sugar coat anything. If I expect the worst and then something good happens it’s like a bonus, I find when I hope for the best more often than not I end up being let down. I know this isn’t healthy and I’d like to change but at this stage of the game I feel like it is too late for this old dog to learn new tricks and when I try to be positive I feel fake and like I’m not being myself.

Being a pessimist isn’t always as bad as optimists try to make it sound . You may be gloomy all the time and have little or no initiative to bark on new endeavors (if barking on a new endeavor is the word i want ). However, you have less diappointments and an even lesser tendency of dependency than folks with bright and sunny disposition. Optimism has it’s not-so-sunny sides too, although I admit being aound an optimist person is easier than beign arounda pessimist person. HOWEVER, I think to try to “cure” a person of his/her pessimism is like asking him/her the impossible question of overriding his background and be above his experiences. Blotting what he/she used to be and become a more friendly agreeable person. Because people don’t just up and become brooding and melancholic. They don’t choose to be this way. They were MADE that way. They were let down, had the ground move from underneath them. So they find it hard to get off their behind and just grab the hands of hope. By being pessimist, they are just looking out for themselves because they’ve learned early in life that they were the only one who is there for them. So they refuse to take the world upon it’s word and be guillable; coz, obviously, they know better. And anyways, pessimists are the most imaginative and creative people of the two (they can imagine disaster in it’s detail DUH). You can never get the better of a pessmimist (are you kidding me?) coz a pessimist doesn’t just put him/herself out there. And it’s not like life plays fair, anyway. That’s why i love being a pessimist. I play safe all the time and if good things come my way, let them!! If they don’t, they never do anyway. Which is why i see no point in you wanting to be an optimist; a somebody else!