Archive for April, 2007
Being a responsible cat owner requires a financial obligation. If you cannot include the additional costs into your already small budget, you might want to re-consider and wait with getting a pet until your financial situation has improved.
It is hard to resist a cute kitten that is in need of a home or the beautiful stray that shows up at your door step and wants to come in. If your budget is tight and you are willing to make certain sacrifices for the sake of having the pleasures of sharing your life with a cat, then you may be able to accomplish that dream.
This is what you will need:
- Quality Food
- Litter Box and Litter
- Funds for Spaying or Neutering
- Funds for all necessary Vaccinations
- Funds for the Annual Veterinary Examination
- Funds for Emergency Veterinary Care
Of course the cost for the items listed above varies from city to city and vet office to vet office, so it would be wise if you inquire about it before you get a cat or kitten. Once you are absolutely sure you can provide for a cat, or maybe even two, please go to an animal shelter and adopt a cat that otherwise would have no chance!
This post was written by Ella Sumrall, she regularly contributes to WebmastersDesk and Smuge. Ella is fast becoming an authority on stainless steel fasteners.
When you have both cats and dogs in the same household it can be difficult to keep the food separate. However it is important to try because both animals have different dietary requirements. Dogs can tolerate grain in their food as they are omnivores; they need to eat a certain amount of plant products. Cats are carnivores and the nutrients that they need are found only in meat.
The best example is taurine and without it cats can go blind, suffer from heart disease and types of respiratory failure. Taurine is not present at all in dog food. Vitamin A is essential to both cats and dogs but how the animals ingest it is very different. Dogs can convert beta carotene found in carrots to vitamin A within their body. Cats cannot they must have vitamin A already made and this is only present in animals tissues. Equally dogs can convert fatty acids such as linoleic acid to arachidonic acid, but cats cannot. Lastly the cats use protein sources for their energy requirements and they need a massive protein reserve which simply is not found in dog food. It is probably healthier for dogs to eat cat food and because cat food is denser has added fats and calories; it means dogs like it, but it can make them obese. It is too rich for dogs on a long term basis, if you must feed your cat food on another animal try a ferret t is the only other animal that is a true carnivore.
This entry was composed by Callum Lote. Callum is also one of the three orginal writer on Fruity Beauty and has written lots of different articles to do with stainless steel fasteners.
True love means to allow your dog to be a dog, as nature has intended for him. If you treat your dog like a human you will cause quite some confusion with some unwanted results.
Their confusion and disorientation manifest in bad behavior such as tearing up the couch or barking constantly. Most of these dogs are probably loved and well cared for by their owners, but they feel extremely lost. He needs a pack leader that provides a source of strength and guidance that helps the dog navigate through a complex world.
You can learn to become your dogs pack leader by acting like an animal pack leader would. He tells his pack, through his calm, assertive energy, what to do and where to go. Every day. All of the time. The pack leader doesn’t display emotional or nervous energy and neither should you.
Your dog will look to you to establish rules, boundaries and limitations. Remember, your dog will set them if you don't.
Your dog is an animal, guided by animal instincts. Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. But if you treat your dog like a dog and provide him with the pack dynamic he craves, your companion can live a rich, rewarding life, even among humans.
This post was written by Jessica Stanley, she regularly writes for Pretty Gritty and Rafaelmeavitali. Jessica is a noted specialist on the topic of email marketing software. View her blog here.
Dogs are loving and loveable animals. Physical contact means a lot to them. However, giving your dog affection at the wrong time can result in unwanted behavior.
Anytime you give affection you reinforce the behavior preceding it.
Share your love when your dog is in a calm-submissive state. Share affection after a dog has exercised and been fed; changed an unwanted behavior into a behavior you asked for; responded to a rule or command; or entered a calm-submissive state.
Do NOT share affection when your dog is scared, skittish, nervous, possessive, dominant, aggressive, whining, begging, barking or breaking the rules. Do not forget to give your dog enough exercise and discipline. Prove your love by giving your dog what he needs: long walks and rules, boundaries and limitations.
Give your dogs as much love as you got! But please give it at the right time!
This article was submitted by Bill Sales. Bill is also one of the primary writer for Remote Brains and has published many articles to do with glycolic peel uk.
During their first few days and weeks of life, the dog mom teaches her puppies everything they need to know to survive. She sets rules, boundaries and limitations. She walks with her puppies, an important primal activity for dogs.
In Nature dogs earn food and water by walking. While walking they get to experience the world. If a dog does not walk he does not eat, simple as that. This activity exists deep within a dogs DNA, but unfortunately not many dog owners recognize the importance.
Walking exercises your dog’s body and stimulates his mind and provides a good opportunity for you to establish yourself as pack leader.
Always walk in front of a dog, because it allows you to be seen as the pack leader. To a dog, position matters. Learn how to walk your dog correctly and your dog will relate to you as the pack leader by accepting his submissive role within the pack.
Most dogs are born into the submissive role and like it just fine. Trouble arises when naturally submissive dogs attempt to fill what they see as a vacant pack leader role. Nature never intended for them to take on this role, so bad and unwanted behavior develops as they act out or try to fit into our world.
During the walk you may feel the highest level of connection with your dog. Many dog owners believe that dogs only crave love and affection and treats. That is not the case! Dogs crave rules, boundaries and limitations from their pack leader. They also crave walking, a primal activity that they live to enjoy.
This entry was submitted by Steven Ratcliff. Steven is also one of the primary writer for A.B.B.4 and has published many articles on restylane clinic.
NEVER EVER give your Pet Cow's Milk!
Why you ask?
It will make them very sick by giving them diarrhea, which can be fatal in baby animals, since their little bodies are still growing and their immune system is by far not strong enough to withstand any disturbances.
Dogs, cats, and the majority of mammals do not have the necessary enzymes to properly break down the milk sugar which is called 'lactose.' You may have heard of people who are lactose-intolerant. They are also missing these digestive enzymes. If the proper enzymes are not present, the lactose remains undigested and tends to ferment in the intestine and cause diarrhea.
Give your pet one of the commercial cat or dog milk replacer on the market that has had the lactose removed. You can obtain mother's milk replacer for young kittens at many of the pet stores in the area.
The author of this post is Cora Harding, she regularly writes for Creepo . Cora is building up herself up as a online specialist on IPL hair removal. View her blog here.