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Cat - aggressive behaviour but only with feathers
We have a lovely sweet natured 2.5YO softie who hardly ever gets his claws out except for vet visits and when he gets a hold of largish feathers. We bought them a cheaper version of Da Bird and he has managed to pull one of the larger feathers out of it. He trotted off with it like he was over the moon and started chewing…
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How to complain about another dog walker
Over the last few years walking my dog on waste land, I and other dog walkers I know have had to avoid a certain lone walker who walks three dogs - two large dogs on leads and another agressive dog with no lead/collar. He clearly has limited control of the large dogs on his own and NO control of agressive dog. Yesterday I…
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Type of kitty litter for 2 kittens, currently indoor
I've recently adopted a couple of older kittens. When I picked them up, their previous owner gave me a bag of Sainsburys basics kitty litter, which I used up, but found it awful, I needed to change the whole tray every day, and it stank from the first wee:( With my old cats, I used to use the silica crystals, which worked…
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Flea anxiety! Please help :(
I have had a kitten for a couple of months now, and 2 days ago saw that she was leaving behind black flecks after sleeping on surfaces. We realised it must be fleas, so we got her Advocate from the vet and used it on her straightaway - almost instantly we started seeing dead little insects. It wasn't many - possibly 10 in…
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Dog Behaviour Question
Hiya, I hope this is okay to post, even if anyone can point me to some reputable links and not advise on here themselves... We have 2 dogs, one male one female neither have been 'done' but both have always remained healthy, ideal weight dogs. They are 6 years old, the breed are expected to live until 8 years old. Nothing…
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Dog toilet problems
I have just been gifted a 14 month old staffy male as a friend to my 1 year old staffy female. I currently live in a flat with no direct garden access. We do have a shared garden but it is through another block door. I have always walked my female every 4 hours and she is good as gold going to the toilet and we never have…
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Neighbour's cat trying to move in
Hello hope you can help us. We adopted a 14 year old cat from Cats Protection in May and after a shaky start, she has settled in really well, one of the her issues is that she is very aggressive and hates other cats. The aggression had died down and she was becoming quite socialised. We have taught her to use a cat flap,…
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Fostering a rescue dog
We're going to be working with a charity to foster rescue dogs until they find permanent homes. The charity seem pretty good about giving advice etc, but wondered if anyone else had any experience of doing this and any tips etc?
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Older doggy for my parents
Hi x Wondered if anybody could give me some advice. My parents (early 80's) have lost both their beloved dogs this year and are devastated now. They had thought that was it but are now thinking they might like an older dog to love and cherish. They are both relatively housebound although active at home and have a huge…
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Hardest decision
My baby girl who is 16 has been ill over the past week and I think that when we take her to the vet this evening she will be PTS. She has been the most delightful loving cat ever and DH and I are heartbroken. I Neither of us can get any time off work today and we left her snuggled under the duvet as we went out this…
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Unhelpful previous owner
Another question about our new arrival... He came from a friend of OH's dad - to be polite this woman is 'challenging'. When we took him in she assured he was up to date with vaccinations etc. and was insured. She also told us she'd continue paying the insurance till the end of the year, and give us a 6 month supply of…
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encourage kitten to sleep at night
We have a 13.5 week old Siamese kitten, we've had the last week off work to give him some company for his first week here. We've noticed that he will sleep all day if we let him and he's hard to wake up. He'll get up and then find another warm spot. Is it a good idea to wake him for food and play so that he'll sleep at…
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Looking for a new home for dog
Bit of a long story...short version is a friend (who already has 3 lurchers) took on another one, called Red, after his current owner decided she wanted rid of him. Red's first owner was useless and kept him caged up in a tiny room all day with one short walk on a lead a day if he was lucky. He's a border collie X…
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Cat feeding advice sought.
We've got two puddies. Our policy regarding food has always been to allow grazing on kibbles 24/7 with plenty of water nearby but to supplement with a wet pouch in the morning and kittie milk during the day. Treats are generally Dreamies or liver sticks and we dish those out when noses are turned up at everything else. We…
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Any cat behaviour experts? We're desperate!
We took in a stray kitten a couple of months ago who was around 9 weeks old at the time, she's coming up to 5 months old now but we are having huge problems with her. Basically she wasn't litter trained initially, having had cats before, I was confident in getting her litter trained but it's become a bad problem. We have…
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Seperation Anxiety
Hi Sorry in advance if this goes on a bit (very stressed). I got a 12 month lab/collie cross 2 weeks ago. He is a fantastic dog in general but we are having a real problem with leaving him at home on his own. Anyway have been spending a lot of time reading up on things like seperation anxiety and have managed to totally…
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Bob Martin Pet Carrier, £2.78 (down from £10.99)
In Tesco. There were crates of them by the doors at my local superstore.
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Rogue Chickens
About 4 weeks ago I came across some chickens in our garden, about 6 of them. I ignored them and hoped someone might claim them as I know a few doors down have chickens. No one came round and they kept reappearing every morning in our garden but then disappearing. I knocked on the house who have chickens and no one…
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Cav king charles spaniel is limping?
noticed it yesterday, my 3 year old girl dog was limping one of her back legs, after a few minutes on my lap and a leg rub she was ok again. now shes started again this evening, shes not hurt it that I know, and she folllows me around everywhere so I'd know if she fell/tripped or anything, any ideas what it could be,…
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the ongoing saga of Rosie' s paw
Ok just a bit of advice before I can speak to the vet tomorrow would be appreciated otherwise going to worry all night. She has had an abscess on her paw which she had cleaned out under general on tuesday. Vet nurse told me to bathe with salt water twice a day which I did. She went back for check yesterday and the vet told…
