About
The focus of this site is to help people enjoy their lives with their pets. Initially we had a bigger area of focus outlined in our TREATS section, however, since the pandemic, we decided to narrow down the focus to three (3) pandemic-proof aspects of life with a pet:
- Dog Parks in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area: Outdoor outings are pandemic-proof. And as a video producer, I noticed there really are not any good video tours/virtual walk-thrus so you can see what is available before you take the time to check it out in person. My goal is to offer video reviews for each of the 101 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties, if they have an official dog park or good dog-friendly park.
- Pet Safe Gardens: Another pandemic-proof activity since it is either outdoors or indoors on your property. If there is another shutdown, at least you and your pet(s) can have an enrichment sanctuary to enjoy together. We research pet safe plants and experiment with different plants in our own garden in Northern California and then highlight them throughout the website.
- Rescues/ Pet Socialization: Adoptions thankfully increased during the pandemic, which is one of the goals of the site. However, many adopters did not really know how to help their new addition adjust. So our third set of articles will include advice and tips to support pet owners on the journey of pet ownership: training and socializing.
Meet KandL
WHO IS THE “K” IN “KANDL”?
Kamala has always had a pet ever since childhood including dogs, cats and rabbits. Kamala is a video producer and PGA member. She decided to put her production skills to good use for this pet project– pun intended. The reviews and recommendations are based on her experience as a dog owner in the Greater Bay Area who has been frequenting dog parks for over 20 years and growing her own pet-safe garden for nearly 5 years.
WHO IS THE “L” IN “KANDL”?
Lovie is an ARF graduate (Animal Rescue Foundation). He has successfully completed Puppy I and II through Bravo Pup and the (Oakland) East Bay SPCA, and Basic Training through ARF. He has also taken agility and dance classes. His social butterfly nature made waiting in line during agility challenging but at least his dancing skills enable him to dance for his supper.
This video information is available as a text transcript with description of visuals below.
Text Transcript with Description of Visuals
Visual: Kamala sitting with Lovie the rescue dog. She is the one talking quoted in this transcript.
Audio:
Hi Everybody!
This is Kamala and Lovie. I wanted to introduce ourselves and why we are doing this project, PetsCango, because we want to promote pet-friendliness. And want to promote pet adoption of dogs like Lovie, who’s an ARF graduate; who would otherwise join the 6 million dogs and cats that, and I don’t know if that also includes hamsters and rabbits; but all the domestic animals who every year 6 million get put down- and, we don’t want that to happen. So in order to promote pet adoption, and save lives, we are promoting pet-friendly businesses, hoping that you will help us save lives and have fun doing it. I guess that’s enough say.
I could go into the whole story about Mama Cat who is the cat that you see dancing the Tango-Cango with Lovie.
Remember Mama Cat? (Kamala asks Lovie)
Mama Cat was a feral cat who lived in our backyard. Lovie had a love-hate relationship with her, mainly hate because he couldn’t go in the backyard when she was training her kittens and that really pissed him off. So that’s why I thought I would have the two of them dancing the Tango, but we’re calling it the Cango.
And, Mamma Cat- when I was trying to catch her and get her fixed, she had her kittens; so then I had to try to get her kittens placed- Boy, did I become educated about how hard it is for the smaller rescue groups to place animals. And they’re all volunteers… So I thought “Wow” this would be really good to try to help them get above the noise.
All right, thank you for visiting. I hope that you will visit these different businesses. And spend your money with businesses that make it easier to be a pet owner, and fun. And [I hope that] that you will support the different rescue groups by visiting them and donating and adopting from them.
Join us to have fun and save lives!
The best way to connect with us is to follow us on https://www.instagram.com/petscango/.
*By the way, Mama Cat is doing the Cango Tango with my rescue dog, Lovie to memorialize the love-hate relationship the two had when she was living in the backyard which meant that Lovie could not go in the yard so that she could train and care for her kittens.