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All our beds, cages and travel homes are on sale for the month of
October and November. Better yet, if you bring in a used but clean bed,
cage or travel case we will give you an extra 10% off your new one! These
will be donated to our local no-kill shelter.
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| Pet Adoption
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Come find your new loving friend of the family! The Animal Compassion
Network are here every second Saturday of the month with great dogs and
cats. Sometimes they have the occasional bird, ferret, hamster or other
deserving creature that has found itself without a human to love!
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| Cat Body
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You can tell so much about your cat's mood just by understanding cat
body language. Happy cats have their ears up high, and a straight tail.
How ever ears that are swiveled off to the side, and a tail held high but
slightly bent at the tip show the cat is very happy. A cat holding it's
tail straight up is a cat body language sign that he's feeling average,
and a drooping tail is a sign of unhappiness or illness. A bushy tail,
usually means that your kitty is ready for battle or possibly afraid.
Understanding cat body language is an important part to you and your pets
relationship.
A mother cat will usually allow her young kittens
to play with her tail, but when she gets tired of this it will thrash
wildly, and teach them to leave it alone. Therefore, the thrashing tail
indicates that a cat is about to lose his temper, while a slowly wagging
tail means alertness.
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Litter Training Your New
Kitty!
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From the start I want to say that Housebreaking your cat isn't just
showing them how to use the litter box. It involves teaching them to
scratch the scratching post rather then your furniture, and learn to
develop bonds with humans around them.
A cat's first several
weeks in their new home is a crucial time. You'll be preparing the
groundwork for your relationship in the years to come. Cat's are very
similar to people, in that first impressions are very important. If this
is your first cat, get ready for one of life's great pleasures. Cats are
great! But remember they have "ways" so you just go through housebreaking
your cat correctly, while not going against their nature.
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Puppy Training Tips
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Umpteen numbers of words have been said, written and webbed about the
benefits of training your dog. And yet people find it unnecessary to
undertake the job for the simple reason of lethargy till things have
reached such an impasse that a novel campaign may soon be launched, asking
the dog to train the master! Take the case of an office assistant having a
pet at his apartment, locked up in the bathroom during working hours since
there is no one at home to tend to it. If you had been the dog and the dog
its master, you would surely have sunk your teeth at the master's calf the
moment the bathroom door was opened after a lapse of ten hours in agony.
Instead of confining him within the tiny toilet, isn't it better to
let him run around the apartment and training him not to flee and not to
bark needlessly to the obvious concern of the next-door neighbor? If you
have read George Orwell's famous satirical episode, Animal Firm, you could
jolly well have visualized the dog knocking off the bathroom ceiling and
replacing it with chicken wire fencing for a little fresh air. Also, the
dog being the master would have held you by your neck and locked you up in
the bathroom where there is no music, no TV and the place stinks like hell.
Think again - training your dog would have been worthwhile.
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Affordable Pet Health
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Do you have an older family pet that seems to get sick every other
month? Or possible and older cat with kidney or heart problems? No matter
what the condition is when our pets fall ill they need the same type of
care we receive from a hospital and doctor, except from their local
veterinarian. With the cost of everything continually going up it can be
difficult to often afford all of the required medical attention your pet
might need.
For all of these reasons and more affordable pet
health insurance is becoming the norm for most serious pet owners.
Generally where ever you take your dog, cat, or exotic pet for checkups
they offer some form of insurance, as well as at your local pet shops they
generally offer lists of the different providers offering coverage.
The Importance and benefit of having pet health insurance:
Affordable pet health insurance comes in a variety of forms
similar to our own health insurance. They range from more basic coverage
to that which covers things you didn't even know your pet might need. You
can tailor a package to your pets requirements from something inclusive of
everything to those which only pay for more serious complications during an
emergency.
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