Julia K Cole

Halloween can be a festive and fun time for children and families. But for pets? Let's face it, it can be a downright nightmare. Forgo the stress and dangers this year by following these 10 easy tips. 1. Trick-or-treat candies are not for pets. All forms of chocolate -- especially baking or dark chocolate -- can be dangerous, even lethal, for dogs and cats. Symptoms of chocolate poisoning may include  vomiting ,  diarrhea , rapid breathing, increased heart rate, and  seizures . Halloween candies containing the artificial sweetener xylitol can also be poisonous to dogs. Even small amounts of xylitol can cause a sudden drop in blood sugar and subsequent loss of coordination and seizures. And while xylitol toxicity in cats has yet to be established, it's better to be safe than sorry. 2. Don't leave pets out in the yard on Halloween. Surprisingly, vicious pranksters have been known to tease, injure, steal, and even kill pets on Halloween night. Inexc...

Is Paying  It Forward In 2014 on Your List Of Things to Do?   Here are just a few ways you can check it off! Volunteer at your local Homeless Shelter.  Serve a hot meal to a neighbor or a stranger if you so desire. Visit/Volunteer at  a Nursing Home and/or Children's home. Your Local Shelter Is In Need Year Round! Foster, Rescue or Adopt a Pet from your Local Shelter.Shelters are Always looking for donations in the form of money, blankets, cleaning supplies, food, toys.  Volunteer to hold and play with kittens and pups and/or walk a dog at Your local shelters. Shovel snow, salt down sidewalks, walkways of neighbors, local restaurants, stores Clean public toilets Check in on your Elderly and/or disabled neighbors to make sure they have what they need with respect to heating (or cooling during warmer months), blankets, plumbing in working order, etc. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~* PET FOOD BANK: Donate Food for Needy families with pets. Fin...

Orson Welles was as shocked as anyone after his 60-minute radio drama “The War of the Worlds” sent some Americans running for cover from an alien invasion by Martians. Welles had broadcast “Dracula,” after all, so he had “high hopes that people would react as they do in a movie,” he said in the 1938 interview shown above. “You’ve no idea how many are listening and what they’re thinking,” the actor-filmmaker said of his audience. Well, some of them thought Martians had finally descended, although it’s unclear from media reports how many actually panicked in the aftermath of Welles’ Oct. 30, 1938, broadcast on CBS radio. Seventy-five years later, and 28 years after Welles’ death, could a similar “melodrama,” as he called it, set off panic now? Click HERE to read more And to View Orson Welles interview  *~*~*~*~*~*~* Me personally, I believe we could.  I mean think of all the hoaxed Celebrity deaths that people bought into on Face Book and Twitter? ...