Cute Little Puppy

Benefits of Pets: Part V – Companionship

CCStaff Birds, Cats, Dogs, Small Animals, Uncategorized

From the stories of our pet-loving customers here at Critter Cabana, and our own experience, the companionship of pets is one big upside of a pet-owner’s life. Playing fetch with our dogs, cuddling with our cats, singing with our birds, having a stare-down with our Bearded Dragons, laughing at the antics of our pet rats, and feeding our begging pufferfish …

Benefits of Pets: Part IV – 5 + 1 Psychological Health Rewards

CCStaff All Departments, Birds, Cats, Dogs, Reptiles, Small Animals, Uncategorized

Who would have thought that pets could replace a good psychotherapist? Not many shrinks would agree to that, and those few are probably are pet-owners too; Many research made by psychiatrist have proven that our pets keep us sane, or insane-in-a-good-way, as some teens would put it. Here at Critter Cabana, we have combined our personal observations with several study results …

Benefits of Pets: Part III – Why Are More Doctors Now “Prescribing” Pets For Seniors?

CCStaff All Departments, Birds, Cats, Dogs, Reptiles, Small Animals, Uncategorized

Again, for the seniors among our pet-owning community, these may be no surprise at all; but we at Critter Cabana would like to share these with those of you who may know someone who needs the “prescription.” As suggested by the experts from https://stdominicvillage.org/ site and also aside from their own experience with senior patients, doctors can now draw on …

Benefits of Pets: Part II – 5 Positive Effects of Pet Ownership on A Child’s Development

CCStaff All Departments, Birds, Cats, Dogs, Reptiles, Small Animals, Uncategorized

Those of us who grew up with pets around the house – our parents’, our siblings’ and our own – don’t need convincing about the positive effects of pets on a child’s growth. But we hope to pass this on to no-pet families with growing children, and first-time parents, who are thinking about getting a pet or pets (such as …

Benefits of Pets: Part I – The Healing Effects of Good Human-Pet Relationships

CCStaff All Departments, Birds, Cats, Dogs, Reptiles, Small Animals

  What does Critter Cabana and our pet-loving customers have in common with the National Institute of Health, Sociologists, Neuropsychologists, Cardiologists and other Health Care Professionals? We share the knowledge that good human-pet relationships have beneficial effects not just on our mental and physical health but also on our dealings with others in our community. The difference is that we …

Confidence in Bird Handling

Matt Johnson Birds, Uncategorized

There are a lot of benefits to being a PK (Pet Store Kid =)… One of which is that without any training, Bass is going to be a master bird handler.  Most of our big pet birds can be intimidating to those who know how powerful their beaks are.  But these birds can sense that fear. Avalon Aviary says it …

New Goodies from Wilsonville

Matt Johnson Articles, Birds

Some pictures from late tonight. We’ve lots of new stuff going in, puppy room, bird department, checkout counter. Today we spent almost all day working on reptiles again, aka Scott and I argued about little stuff until 4pm and then got serious. Same plans for tommorrow. There is one picture of some progress with the burmese python enclosure. We’ve got …