Mapleshade Animal Hospital

09/01/2026

🐾Recall of Northwest dog and cat food, check your labels if you feed this food. 🐾

08/22/2026

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1436703701594279/?fs=e&fs=e

Yup, we could see ourselves doing this! ❤️🐾❤️🐥

08/15/2026

https://www.newsweek.com/warning-sign-most-owners-miss-before-dog-attack-12268182

Warning on watching the video. You can still see the still pictures of her trying to protect her dogs from this 70-80 # dog. Very traumatizing for sure. There was no way she could have avoided the situation as the dog was hidden in a car and gave no warning.
Yes the first thing we want to do is to un lodge the other dog’s teeth from your beloved pet, that just sets us up to being bitten. Hand bites are incredibly painful due to the high amount of nerve endings we have.
They say make a loud noise to disrupt the attack, carrying one of those fog horns is not a bad idea, scares the dog and maybe gives you a chance to get away. Carry pepper spray, or if worried you may spray your dog as well, carry citronella spray.

If there truly is a threat from unknown dogs, coyotes or aerial predators look into the coyote vests. They are reasonably priced, several companies out there, made of Kevlar, and have spikes or metal rivets To make it hard to puncture your pet.

The bite force alone could injure your pet but not allowing them to get punctures wounds, infections could save their life. If you are afraid of aerial predators they have long plastic spike things you can add to deter it. Dogs usually go for the jugular, they do have neck protection they could wear. Just a thought to keep in the back of your mind if you do like to go out for long walks. We do see injuries from dogs either from unknown dogs or even a house mate, they are always traumatizing for both the animal and the owner.

"All of a sudden, I saw a flash of yellow fly in front of my face," the owner told Newsweek, recalling the May 15 attack.

08/05/2026

Save this post or print it out as a good reminder.

08/03/2026

Keep inside till they use it outside to help keep them cool. Once it’s very warm though they won’t help much, no dog should be allowed to stay outside in the heat for very long.

07/29/2026

Amazing how large these birds are, the American symbol of freedom the Eagle. Our Nations bird 🦅 (juvenile Eagle in this case) found himself in a bit of a pickle. Thankfully it has a happy ending. Especially since this happened before our Country’s 250th anniversary of independence.

https://fb.watch/InoVNlpOa5/?fs=e

07/27/2026

Good to know! 🐾🐾❤️❤️

07/22/2026

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1452244773607830/?fs=e&fs=e

Pretty cleaver, using color black makes them look invisible to them. Kind of like like masks for horses. Just run it through the color. Keep them from eating grass, rocks, frogs, slugs, just keep them supervised while wearing it.

07/15/2026

Rings a bell, sounds like our hospital kitties, aka junior managers! Micromanagers is more like it. ❤️😜

A three-legged dog and a 3-legged cat have been adopted together after becoming inseparable during their hospital stay at a Maryland animal rescue.

07/04/2026

🐾🇺🇸🇺🇸🐾🎆🎆Wishing everyone a safe and wonderful 250th Anniversary and a Happy Fourth of July from all of us at Mapleshade Animal Hospital. 🇺🇸God Bless the USA! 🇺🇸🐾🐾🇺🇸🎆