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 Mobile Pet Spa uses only non toxic natural products. Our shampoos and conditioners are soft on your pet's coat and skin, whether  we carefully lather the coat or giving your dog or a cat skunk baths. 

  Mobile Pet Spa , one of not many companies that does groom cats. We do lion cuts, nail trimming, de matting. We are cat specialists. We use special size blades in the manner that will not injure your cat or a dog, and smoothly take out layers of hair, giving your pet a great professional look they deserve. We know how to handle cats, and deal with them for a long time. 

   Mobile Pet Spa, employs professionals, who know their craft a,d are animal lovers. Mobile Pet Spa is the best company in Los Angeles, and for that matter in California. You tell us what you need, and we will do it. 

   Mobile Pet Spa groomes big or extra size dogs as well, but we make friends with those dogs even before we start grooming, making ourselves familiar, and slow approaching rescued dogs, who might be aggressive or resistant. 

   Our staff will be available as your only groomer, so your pet is used to the same person for years! Our vans are well equipped, with air conditioners, hot and cold water, work table, gentle restraints, dull edge scissors , clean towels and loving hands. Mobile Pet Spa does not use cheap fragrant shampoos, that other groomers use, so neither you or your pet will show any signs of allergies. Did you know, that among many clients of ours,  2 are employed veterinarians, and are with us for many many years. So, make your appointment with  Mobile Pet Spa today, and refer your friends,  we are good people.

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Holding your dog's leash

Holding your dog’s leash seems like such a basic thing, but it could mean the difference between safety and some pretty awful injuries.

I know, right now you’re probably thinking something along the lines of “this person is insane, how could holding a lead be dangerous?!. Many of us don’t even THINK about how we hold our dog’s lead, we just do whatever is comfortable.

Two years ago I got my first dog and on my first day of puppy class the trainer spent more time talking about how to safely hold the lead than he did telling me about how to get my dog to sit. What he wanted us to leave with is the message that no matter how big or small our dog is, we were NEVER to wrap the lead around our arm, our wrist, or around any part of our body in general. He then recounted stories of owners being dragged by their dogs, breaking arms, de-gloving their fingers and even his own experience of a dislocated thumb.

I honestly thought the guy was having me on. I mean, I’d always wrapped the lead around my arm when walking the family dog. After all, I needed to make sure I had a firm hold on a dog that weighed about 25kg!

Then, a few weeks later, I was walking my own 8kg dog with the lead wrapped around my wrist when he saw something interesting and took off. I wasn’t expecting it and the lead was still ripped from what I thought was a firm grasp. I also felt this horrible pain in my thumb (almost had it pulled out of its socket) and a nice piece of rope burn down the back of my hand.

So I went back to the trainer, admitted that I didn’t listen to him and asked to be shown a safer way to hold my dog’s lead. He told me the best way to hold your dog’s lead is to put only your thumb through the loop on the lead and hold as demonstrated in the photo below. If you need extra support, also hold the lead with your other hand.

To hold a lead place your thumb through the loop, then close your hand over the handle. Mobile Pet Spa 818 755 7900

I recently spoke to a rather unfortunate dog owner… she used to walk her large breed dog with the lead wrapped around her arm because he pulled like crazy and she was scared he would escape her grip. Then one day she tripped, spooked her dog and he took off. Now, because that lead was wrapped around her arm, she was pulled over and dragged along. Apart from some nasty cuts, bumps and bruises, she walked away with not one, but TWO broken arms! She was sharing her story to hopefully save at least one other owner from an unfortunate fate.

If you do have a dog that pulls, work on teaching him to heel. Or take a short-cut and use a head halter instead, these brilliant inventions can really help you take the lead again – pun intended!

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What Cats Crave

The holiday season now stretches from Halloween to Thanksgiving, peaking with Christmas, Hanukkah and ending with New Year’s Eve. Black Friday on November 25, 2016 promises bargains and headaches. Consumers spent over 350 million on Halloween pet costumes alone this year and many pets will receive holiday gifts this year.

Before wrapping Fluffy in a hot dog costume or gift-wrapping Fluffy a new toy, stop to consider what the true meaning of the season is. Americans are naturally generous at heart and pets, more than ever are the recipients of their largesse. In our eagerness to please our pets it’s easy to lose sight of what the want and need.

Never Mind Black Friday:  These are the six Holiday Gifts Cats Crave.

While cats enjoy new toys and treats any time, they don’t understand of the concept of the holiday season. What is a fun, exciting time of celebration can be a stressful, over-stimulating or lonely time for cats.

This year in the collective spirit of joy and generosity let’s turn our thoughts to kindness, compassion and gratitude towards our cats. The greatest gift we can give our cats this holiday season doesn’t cost dime. It’s the gift of awareness and it’s the gift that keeps on giving in purrs of thanks from our cats. Awareness is the sister of compassion and the end result is a deepening of the feline-human bond

Science has proven how simply petting a cat helps reduce stress and lower blood pressure. Cat lovers have always known a happy cat makes happy home. Learning what makes our mysterious feline friends tick will help us gain self-knowledge as well.

Cultivating the gift of awareness through a Cat’s Six Senses

Cats live in our world and homes but we also live in their world. They have invisible boundaries and territories (more so in multi-cat or pet homes) we aren’t privy to. Our worlds and their territories are in a constant state of flux. Behavioral issues often result when the two worlds don’t intersect harmoniously.

Cats’ senses are more developed than ours and its far too easy to over-stimulate a cat. An overwhelmed cat will react with a fight-or-flight aggressive or defensive response.  They will hiss, bite or scratch or run away and hide. It’s up to us to learn their language and be aware of changes in their moods and decode their body language. Despite living with humans for over 9,000 years cats are not fully domesticated. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis who recently sequenced and analyzed the cat genome discovered little had changed in a cat’s DNA during their evolution. All of the cat’s senses are designed for hunting prey and survival.

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