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11/23/2022

Be on the lookout! https://www.pennysplace.digdirect.com

11/23/2022

FestivalNet lists mall shows too! Featured Event Spotlight on Broadway Commons Mall Christmas Craft & Gift Show. "Up to 20 Vendors selling art, crafts, and gifts for the Season."

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11/23/2022

08/03/2022

I didn't know this - did you?

Monday is the perfect time to celebrate the shelter dog in your life. The first of August serves as the universal ceremonial birthday for shelter dogs known as “DOGust 1st.” Thousands o…

07/21/2022

Who's YOUR "different BFF? Post a pic!

06/15/2022

1 in 6 - https://mailchi.mp/eefd12a87dcb/1-in-6

06/04/2022

Good mawnin" San Diego! Penny's Place is packing up the car and heading over to Grossmont Center to 🌞🐾Dog Days of Summer MEGA Adoption Event🐾🌞 . Join us in La Mesa from 11am to 3pm.

This is truly a MEGA adoption event, "packed" with beautiful dogs and cats looking to steal your heart. Check it out!

And !!! mention this FB post when you stop by Penny's Place and get an additional $5 off your purchase of $25 or more! See you there!

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This map will help guide you to where all of our Participating Groups will be located at 🌞🐾Dog Days of Summer MEGA Adoption Event🐾🌞 at Grossmont Center La Mesa Tomorrow from 11am to 3pm!! We are looking forward to seeing everyone there and making this an amazingly successful event for all!

06/03/2022

Penny's Place will be at Grossmont Center tomorrow, Saturday, June 4 from 11am to 3pm for the ----

🌞🐾Dog Days of Summer MEGA Adoption Event🐾🌞 !!!

Join us! Dozens of rescue organizations will have so many adoptable animals! Come check us out tomorrow!

03/31/2022

Just when you thought it was safe to refill your dog's water bowl.

THE INVISIBLE SLIMY MONSTER IN THE WATER BOWL

Ever rub your fingers on the inside of your pet's water bowl and you feel a slippery slime of sorts? Well that invisible goo is called Biofilm.

Biofilm is a collection of organic and inorganic, living and dead materials collected on a surface. It is made up of many different types of bacteria bound together in a thick substance that acts as a glue to both hold the bacteria together and adhere it to a surface.

Biofilm can often be good bacteria but there is also the bad!

Biofilms provide a safe haven for organisms like Listeria, E. coli and legionella where they can reproduce to levels where contamination of products passing through that water becomes inevitable.

Bad Biofilms have been found to be involved in a wide variety of microbial infections in the body such as urinary tract infections, middle-ear infections and bladder infections.

Many pet parents are guilty of simply refilling the water bowl over and over without a wash and this becomes a wonderful environment for biofilm to soak around in.

How to reduce Biofilm:

Remember to clean your pet’s water bowl at least once a week if you can and change water daily.

For pet daycares where a host of different bacteria float around in water bowls, wash daily!

For best results, run your water bowls through a hot cycle in the dishwasher with an eco friendly, non-toxic soap to really clean out the biofilm!

Rodney Habib Pet Health Site

"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

(P.S. - I am going to get lambasted over the "wash once a week at least" concept. However, after a wonderful discussion with a well known pro-active veterinarian/scientist, when she studied the bacteria looming in pets' water bowls she found if you have a healthy beast, biofilm can actually be full of wonderful, healthy bacteria. It's like playing in the mud as kids and having good bacteria all over you! So sometimes cleaning regularly can wash all the good stuff away. ;) )