We would like to inform our readers that the Pet Shrink website has been shut down. Glynne will no longer be answering your questions, but please browse through all our past answers and articles for all the information you may need.

Kind regards

Glynne Anderson and the Pet Shrink team

Dear Petshrink Readers

If any of you have posted a question on the site in the past two weeks, please note that it has been lost due to a server crash and will need to be reposted. I am waiting to hear your queries and feedback, so don’t hesitate to call on me for help with all your pet related problems.

Regards
Glynne Anderson, Petshrink

The word ‘anthropomorphic’ loosely means attributing human qualities and sentience to animals. It’s a word much used by scientifically minded folks to describe people like me who believe all creatures are highly intelligent, articulate, sentient beings with advanced social orders and superior parenting skills way ahead of ours! Remember animal babies are home schooled in all subjects from pre-primary school to University level to ensure offspring become a successful members of the animal kingdom. Not many humans can claim the same  … ever seen 5th Grade maths?! Continue Reading

Just as in any other walk of life, myths about pets find their way around the world and often in our mail boxes. And a common question that is asked is whether they are indeed fact, or simply old wives’ tales. So today I thought I’d turf a  few of these well-worn myths into the Bark Ages where they rightfully belong! Continue Reading

If you posted a question to Glynne in the last two weeks, please do not be alarmed if it seems to be missing. Our server crashed on the 18th of June, and our last two weeks of data was lost. But the good news is, we’re back and Glynne Anderson, our resident pet shrink, is still willing and eager to answer your comments and questions. So get asking!

Whether you have a dog, a cat, a canary, a pig or a human child, scientific evidence is growing stronger by the day that early trauma and stress causes life long problems which radically affect social behaviour, life skills, emotions, intelligence and ultimately survival and life span in all animals. Continue Reading

You’ve seen the movie…. now attend the course. The Doolittles are here with a vengeance. In the last 2 weeks I’ve been hounded with emails inviting me to attend five different work shops by five different ‘Animal Communicators’ who claim to talk to animals.   Continue Reading

When advertising their pets in the newspaper, do humans really consider how their dogs will feel when they are dumped at the SPCA or handed over to a stranger who may even be an abuser? Take a look in the newspaper smalls under ‘Pets’ and you’ll see, just about every day, there’s a heart breaking  advertisement offering a life-long, faithful companion to anyone who’ll take the poor animal. Continue Reading

Do you ever wonder how winter affects your pets? Us humans can retreat under the blankets with a hot cuppa, but how do our beloved dogs and cats cope?  And while most of us live in a consistently warm climate, there are those chilly in between days when we feel the need to dress up warmly and keep snug. And the further we live from the sea, generally the colder it gets. Nights especially can be freezing, not forgetting those nippy days when the sun’s weak rays are no match for those icy blasts from our snow covered mountains. Continue Reading

A great big thanks to all our readers who voted for Glynne, our resident Pet Shrink, in the annual Copy Dog’s Fools Awards. She won two awards at the event, namely Best Writer and Charisma.

Here is what some voters had to say about Glynne: Continue Reading