Archive for November 20th, 2008

Scat Mats — the greatest training aid

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Scat Mats are a touch sensitive training pad which say “No”, when you can’t.

It quickly conditions pets to avoid prohibited areas with harmless, low-power electronic pulses similar to static electricity. Place the flexible vinyl Scat Mat in a room entrance, on your sofa, counter top or the hood of your car. The touch sensitive pad will silently protect prohibited areas from trespassers.

When touched, the battery sends small pulses to the mat for 3 seconds. These surprising little ‘zaps’ quickly repel most animals who usually stay away after one or two exposures - even after the mat is removed.

Place it under untouchable objects, across doorways, on furniture, around Christmas trees or trash cans, on top of car hoods — anywhere that you want to discourage your pets or someone else’s pets from touching.

Scat Mats Features:

Scat mats are powered by battery, so they can be used anywhere. (Most use one 9 volt alkaline battery - not included)

The best mats have adjustable power settings: appropriate deterrence sensations for varying sized pets. You can train kittens at Low; cats at Medium; adult dogs and long haired cats on High.

The training Indicator light blinks to tell you how many times the scat mat has been contacted since it was last turned on. No blinks means your pet is avoiding it consistently. With just a short training, the pet will be discouraged from getting near the forbidden object out of habit.

Up to 6 extension mats can be connected to the powered scat mat to economically increase the number and/or size of the areas you wish to cover.

Each mat (not extension mat) has an outlet to accept an optional adapter (sold separately) to convert to A/C current.

You can put whole rooms off limits, keep your pets in a confined area, or keep your pets off of one piece (or several pieces) of furniture.

For larger pets who might jump across the original scat mat, see the new Pawz Away scat mat. It will make you, and your pet, a believer!

Purple Hair Dye - Ready to Take the Plunge?

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Adding any “not so normal” hair coloring, including purple hair dye, to your hair is a major thing to do. Prior to taking this major step, here are a few snippets of advice you need to think about before you go ahead.

1. Do you mind being stared at? Most people who are considering purple hair dye would automatically answer no. However, they may not expect how much attention they really will get once they do the deed. If you think it would be annoying to be constantly referred to as, “The one with the purple hair,” then re-think whether to dye.

2. Can you deal with stains? Purple hair dyes, and all other extreme colors, bleed. Chances are very good you will dye parts of your skin, some clothing and some towels. While the colors will fade out of your skin, it will take some time. The clothing and the towels will be stained permanently.

3. Do you have a serious occasion coming up soon? If there is a family wedding or a serious job interview looming in your future, this may not be the best time to whip out the purple hair dye. Even if you use a temporary color that is supposed to wash out, there is a chance your hair will have a purple cast to it for quite some time.

4. Do you have someone to help you? If you have decided you can handle all these issues and want to try purple hair dye, get a friend to help you. Trying to dye your hair yourself is a messy challenge. You will get better results if a friend applies the dye and rinses it out. It will also be far less messy.

These four questions will help you determine if this is the time for purple hair dye. If it is, be prepared to be noticed.

Hospital furniture, choose the right accessories.

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Bed accessories for hospital equipment

Hospital beds and other  hospital furniture , how to make the right choice.  Patient lifting poles are essential for the comfort of the patients to help the patient to lift himself by a adjustable handle hanging from the pole, the patient lifting pole are available in following different options:

Firstly the bed fitted patient lifting pole or drop in pole fits on beds factory prepared to fit the lifting pole.

Another option of patient lifting poles is a universal patient lifting pole suitable for old type of beds or beds that are not prepared to fit a patient lifting pole. The pole is so manufactured and designed that it can adapt to different beds by a adjusting top hook and a fixed bottom hook that hooks to the vertical tubing sections at the head ends of the hospital beds.

Secondly a wall mounted patient lifting pole is available that is mounted with raw bolts to the wall so that the pole hangs over the bed at the head end. Two options of the wall mounted patient lifting pole are available, one is a standard pole and the second is a swing away patient lifting pole.

Thirdly a free standing patient lifting pole is available that is so designed that it is light weight and fits underneath the hospital bed at the head end to hang over the bed for the patient to use.

Fourthly a mobile lifting patient lifting pole is available so designed similar as the free standing  patient lifting pole but on braking castors for easy moving the pole.

Extension operator with clamps is so designed to fit on the feet end of the bed by means of a clamp, it is adjustable and has a pulley to provide for a rope from a traction unit from the patient with a weight hanger and weights.

Weight hanger and weights are separately available, the weight hanger is so designed that it has a hook at the top for a rope and a platform at the bottom to fit weights. The special designed weights has a slot at one side, a centre hole and the top end and bottom of the weight is so designed that the different sizes weights can be stacked firmly on top of each other.

Traction orthopedic frames are available for different traction needs for patients and has a  sink plated finish frame work available in the following options:

Balkan frames for 6 pulleys fits to hospital beds on four points with four uprights and a vertical bar at the head end and feet end above the bed with a vertical bar from the head end to the feet end on witch 6 pulleys are mounted. The middle vertical bar can be moved to the left and right of the bed and the pulleys can be moved the full length of the middle vertical bar.

Multipurpose orthopedic frame is has two vertical middle bars each with 6 pulleys, the vertical bars can be moved from left to right and the pulleys can be moved the whole length of the vertical bars. Attached extra to the multi purpose frame is a patient lifting handle and a operator extension pulley on a vertical height adjustable bar.

Loose pulleys with mounting brackets are available in a choice of double or single pulleys to fit on these Balkan frames.

More information on Hospital Furniture can be located at the Medfurn website. Lots of advice and tips can be found there. Quality in Hospital Equipment is always important. Make  the right choice from the beginning. Hospital furniture is expensive , get some tips on how to combine this units for the best results.