Articles tagged with 'Pet care'
How can I create low‑cost DIY enrichment for my cat or dog?
Keeping our companion animals healthy and happy is essential for a harmonious life together. A key part of this is providing opportunities for pets to engage in natural behaviours, such as exploring, playing and problem-solving - activities which are often limited in a home environment. Enrichment addresses this by providing activities that help stimulate your pet’s mind, body, and senses, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing.
What can I do to protect my companion animals from heatstroke?
Heatstroke is a life-threatening emergency. Seek veterinary attention immediately. Heatstroke involves potentially life-threatening elevations in body temperature (hyperthermia). Heatstroke is an emergency. It can lead to rapid multi-organ failure and death. The focus is often on dogs but other companion animals, and farm animals, are also vulnerable to heatstroke.
Where should I get my reptile?
Once you have decided what kind of reptile you want to keep, have a home set up for them, and have received your licence, you can start your quest to locate a suitable animal. Remember, reptile keeping in Australia is a privilege, not a right.
Where can I get my backyard chickens?
Often, people who keep backyard chickens need to make a decision about acquiring a new bird. Usually all works out well; both parties (buyer and seller) are happy, and the chicken does well in their new home. But this is not always the case.
What should I feed my birds?
Advances in recent years have shown us that feeding an all-seed diet is not just a bad diet, but one that actively contributes to the death of thousands of pet birds every year. Did you know?
How can I keep my mice safe from household hazards?
Mice are generally best protected in their enclosure, as this limits their access to potential dangers and keeps them safe. However, even when they are in their enclosure, there are still potential dangers – the danger may come to them, or they might escape.
Does my bird have external parasites (e.g. lice, mites, ticks, fleas)?
Birds can carry a large number of external parasites (ectoparasites) – fleas, ticks, mites, and lice. This isn’t as common as people sometimes appear to believe and is greatly overrated (over-treated) as a cause of feather damaging behaviour and feather loss.
How should I groom my mice?
Mice are very clean and usually do a great job of grooming themselves. Washing your mouse Because of their cleanliness, it is uncommon for mice to ever need a wash.
Is it necessary to feed my pet reptile live prey?
There are very few, if any, vertebrate-eating reptile species who will not eat anything other than live food in captivity. Where reptiles require a diet of whole vertebrate animals, such as mice, it is recommended to provide prey that has been humanely killed.
What are the effects of drones on horses, farm animals and wildlife?
The use of drones is becoming increasingly common in farming, conservation work and wildlife research. They allow people to monitor animals and the environment over large areas quickly, safely and without physically approaching animals.