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Cats are notoriously finicky creatures. Your cat can also be quite a snob when it comes to her food and water and will easily turn up her nose when something is not to her liking. These guidelines will help you to keep her healthy and content. 1. Clean bowl You wouldn’t want to eat
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Firstly, cancer is a syndrome, not a final diagnosis. Cancer can be divided into benign (slow to spread and producing a few inflammatory proteins) and malignant (faster to spread and infiltrating surrounding tissue, often producing inflammatory proteins that affect the rest of the body). The inflammatory proteins, known as cytokines, cause weight loss, changed appetite, vomiting
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Aren’t your cat’s paws just too cute for words? Do you also find yourself playing with the underside of her feet, because you just can’t resist touching them? You might think twice about touching her paws when you read these facts about them. Your cat might enjoy the attention, but if she doesn’t like your
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You love your pets and only want the best for them, and one of their basic needs is quality food. With so many options to choose from, the decision of what to feed is not easy. So many pet owners are talking about the health benefits of going raw with your pets’ diets. But before
It may be hard to imagine that your cat dozing in the sun is suffering from stress, but living in a human world puts all sorts of pressures on our animals of which we may not be aware. While it may be easy to spot acute stress – think of your cat’s behaviour at the
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Who cannot resist sharing a photograph of an endangered animal encountered in the wild, especially if you see a rhino with his horn intact? The urge is there, no matter how innocently, and it is human nature to show the world what you’ve just experienced. What we don’t realise is that we contribute to the
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Have you heard of the ‘latchkey children’? The term was first used in the early 1940s when children wore the keys to their homes on ribbons around their necks. With their fathers off to war and their mothers working in factories to support the war effort, thousands of children had to fend for themselves when
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One of the diseases that pet parents fear the most is cancer. This is the first in a series of articles that will discuss what to look out for, what cancer is, what to expect and how to handle it as a pet parent. What symptoms should I look out for that might indicate
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You’ve just fetched your kitten and you are so excited. The very first thing that your kitten needs to learn now is how to interact with her new family. For this everyone should sit on the floor and let the kitten go to each family member in her own time. Don’t force her into a
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Rabbits make amusing, quiet and rewarding pets and can be trained to use a toilet area, much like a cat. They seldom bite and do not need particularly elaborate accommodation. They can make excellent pets for children, but are quite fragile and all interactions with young children should be supervised by a responsible adult. When
Did you know that the number of hours your dog sleeps is linked to his breed? On average, most dogs sleep between 12 and 14 hours per day, but breed activity levels also play a role in sleep requirements. Active breeds may sleep less, with smaller breeds and larger breeds enjoying extra sleep hours. In
