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Author: Marion Herbertson

Choosing a suitable Dog? Large or small - active or couch potato - longhaired or short - with the myriad of options out there, how in the world do you pick the right dog?

Will a large dog be best - or a small one? Do you have children? Do you have other pets? Choosing a suitable dog raises so many questions, but choosing the perfect family dog is one of life's big bonuses. Dogs make brilliant companions and wonderful family pets - if you get the maths right! Making the wrong decision results in heartbreak for yourself and your family - and yet another unhappy or abandoned dog.

Choosing a suitable dog for your family is a major decision and there are ALL SORTS of things to consider. Will a dog fit your lifestyle? Will you have the patience to cope with a puppy ? Or would re-homing a mature dog be best for your family? If you do decided to go the puppy route - are you prepared for sleepless nights, puddles in the most unexpected places, not forgetting chewed up family heirlooms?

However, with a little bit of help, picking the perfect family dog can be a breeze if you do your research and remember the following basic points -

What TYPE of Dog will suite your lifestyle?

Simply put, the type of dog that will fit your lifestyle largely depends on the type of lifestyle you have.

Are you an active, outdoors type of person? You will probably enjoy a medium to large, active dog which needs regular exercise and can join in all your fun. If, however you lead a more sedate lifestyle, a smaller, calmer dog would be suitable and more appreciative of your calm lifestyle.

Space is also an important consideration. Some large dogs need plenty of space whilst small dogs do quite well in flats and apartments.

What BREED of Dog will suite your lifestyle?

Once you've decided what "type" of dog will best suit you, you can now work out the breeds which fit the bill. Dog breeds differ from each other as much as night does from day - this is why research is an absolute must.

Do take time to check out the breed AND the breeder thoroughly. Your dog's temperament is decided primarily by his breed and breeding and only then by human conditioning and training. However, when he is under pressure or provoked, it is almost always your dog's breed and breeding that will win - do bear this important fact in mind.

Other Factors to Consider

When choosing a suitable dog, don’t forget to take into account the cost of looking after a dog. Consider, for example, a dog's grooming needs - ie: shorthaired or longhaired? If you go for a longer haired breed, you need to factor in the additional cost of time and/or professional grooming.

In addition to the usual expenses such as food, vet bills, annual vaccinations and insurance you also need to consider the care of your pet while you're on holiday . Believe me, this can be expensive! More dogs than you care to imagine end up in a dog shelter or worse still on doggy death row simply because their owner had not considered these cost implications.

Last by not least, what type are you?

Well ...... choosing a suitable dog largely depends on your own personality. After all, it's no point picking a dog which is the life and soul of the party if you're the retiring type. Nor is it much fun choosing a dog which matures early and becomes all "dignified" - when what you thrive on is regular rough-and-tumble sessions! Yet another reason for you to do your research thoroughly.

So, do your research at this stage - there is a lot to be considered when choosing a suitable dog. Read as much as you can - and take your time. You'll find a dog which settles into your lifestyle so comfortably, you wont remember a day when he wasn't there - and even if you do, you’ll wonder how in the world you managed without him!

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With years of experience in breeding, training and handling dogs, Marion Herbertson is first and foremost a dog lover. Visit www.advice-on-pet-care-and-pet-product-supplies-online.com/Choosing-A-Suitable-Dog.html- for more of her practical, sometimes humourous advice on pet care.

Author: Ken Charnley

Just like humans, cats feel miserable when they are sick. As a pet owner, it is your primary responsibility to keep your feline friends healthy and happy.

With proper care and nutrition you will have a friend for life in the form of your pet cat.

Here are some tips on how you can properly care for your cat's health:

1. Feed them properly.

Every cat has a preference when it comes to food. There are several types of cat food available in the market. Try each one until you find out which variety your cat prefers.

However, you can still try to mix the variety of cat food you prepare so that your pet will have a nutritious and balanced diet.

Commercial cat foods have been well-researched so you do not need to worry about the nutritional value of what you are feeding your pet.

Also, supply your pet with a lot of clean water to drink. Having an ample supply of drinking water will lead to a healthier animal.

It does not matter if you serve dry, canned or moist cat food. Just make sure that you preserve the freshness of the food that they eat.

You would also want to opt for a healthy and natural cat food. Remember that it should be made of quality ingredients.

2. Remember that even domestic cats are natural hunters.

Mice can serve two purposes in your cat's life: prey and dinner. Hunting for mice would preserve their natural abilities to hunt and seek prey.

If you decide that you do not like the idea of your cat regularly "hunting" for dinner, make sure that you provide them with a proper diet. This will result to your cat ending up just chasing and running after their prey for satisfying their natural hunting urges.

3. Watch out for unusual behavior.

If your pet is exhibiting unusual behavior, then the cat might not be at its best condition.

Try to look out for the following symptoms:

- being lethargic or less active than usual
- shedding of the fur or coat
- it has waxy ears
- looks poor and unhealthy

If you see these symptoms, you might want to change the food that you are serving your cat.

Better yet, consult a professional if you see your pet being less active than usual. Your pet might have a sickness or disease, and as a pet owner and cat lover, you would not want that to happen.

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Author: Ken Charnley

If you want something new for your house, think about fish and aquariums… big aquariums, because they go with these times’ fashion.

The little golden fish wondering alone around his bowl seems to be long forgotten.

Instead of the little bowl, there are now huge aquariums, mounted on the walls or even enclosed in them, containing lots of colored fish, sand, lights, little stones and aquatic vegetation. Optionally you can choose a little castle of house to make the décor unique and fantasy-lie.

This idea has been adopted from restaurants, clubs or other public locations, but now it applies to homes of animal lovers, fish lovers especially.

You have decided to adopt fish because you like them or because you heard they bring prosperity and well-living to your life. Either way, you have to know how to take care of them because they are not just a decorative object; they are living beings that can’t take care of themselves.

They are going to need your full attention and care, they will totally depend on you. Here is some general advice, general because each species act differently and has different needs:

What do we need?
We need an aquarium, a thermometer, a heating system, a water filter, and plants to oxygenate the water, sand and little stones, and a source of light for the plants.

How do we actually do it?
Before placing the fish in the aquarium, the water needs to be left alone 24 hours and its temperature has to be of a minimum of 22-23 Celsius (it can differ for some species). The water is not changed all at the same time, it needs to be changes in several stages, 20% on each stage.

How do we feed fish?
Twice a day, we give them the dried food, the life food or the frozen one, depending on the species.

How do we treat sick fish?
The most common illness encountered amongst fish has as an exterior effect the apparition of some white pits on the flippers of the fish. In such situations, treatments are administrated in the aquarium to prevent the illness from spreading to the other fish too. For the right treatment, you have to go to a fish heath shop.
Another rule in fish illnesses of any type is to just raise the temperature of the water in the aquarium and to dissolve some salt in it.

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Author: Ken Charnley

Firstly, birds will be attracted by the geographic location of your garden.

To find out which birds are at the moment in the geographic area, you will have to consult the specialty magazines and documentations. Maybe even the whether guy can provide some information regarding this aspect although this is not always true.

Libraries and book stores have books based on migration, on the roads that some bird species take to get to their summer or winter residence. Also, taking pictures of bird you see around you and confronting them with informative materials that you already have or searching for information related to them can be an option to find out if these bird are going to make a stop in the area you live in.

Birds need water. This is highly important. A bath or a pool, no matter the size or the material, would instantly attract many bird families, even wild ducks and gooses.

If you could also arrange a place where they could find some food, bird seeds, bread or anything else they might like, that would increase the chances they made an escapade in your garden. You can try, for instance with corn. Seeds of any type also hold an answer to the question related to attracting birds towards your garden. The seeds that almost all birds prefer are sun-flower seeds, extremely easy to find, and cheep also. Anyway, before buying the seeds, you should make a list with all the birds that are in the area and with every bird’s food preferences to assure you can provide food for many types of birds present.

These are the first steps that you have to make to attract birds in your garden. The second step is keeping away from the garden all the things that might scare or disturb birds. Animals from the next garden, neighbor’s dogs can scare the birds. Try and ask the neighbors to keep the dogs chained or in the house, because they are mostly scared by dogs.

Also, you must know that some birds do not agree with each other, so that a certain species might avoid your garden because there is another species in it. Some can also stay away because of the fact you have children and the noise is too loud, and others can stay away because the place doesn’t look natural enough. So, knowing their nature and customs can be a decisive factor in bringing them in our backyard.

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by Brigitte Smith

Did you know that most food that is fed to dogs today has
extremely low nutritional content? If you feed your dog
commercial dog food, you may be slowly killing your dog.
Perhaps you think this is a little dramatic? Think again. If
humans are fed a diet of unhealthy foods, they probably won't
show any adverse signs for quite some time. But fed over many
years, people will become sluggish, sick, and eventually die
from degenerative diseases much earlier than they would
otherwise pass from this life.

The same goes for dogs.

All commercial dog food which is extruded (cooked) at very high
temperatures cannot be anything but bad for our dogs, whose
natural diet in the wild is mainly fresh, raw meat. Even after
dogs became domesticated, and then kept as pets, for decades
they were fed home cooked food and table scraps, before anyone
thought of commercialising dog food and selling cans of mush,
or pieces of highly questionable biscuit-looking food called
"kibble".

Dogs used to live longer than they do now.

Examine baked and kibbled foods for the presence of burned
spots on the biscuits. The presence of large numbers of burned
biscuits indicates that the food has been cooked at such high
temperatures that the nutritients are likely to be almost
non-existent.

On the other hand, if dry products are damp, soft or stale, it
means that they have been improperly processed, become damp in
transit, become damp during storage, or that they are old.

Dry products that become damp quickly deteriorate from the
action of mold and eventually bacteria. Sometimes the only
indication that mold is beginning to attack a dry food is the
musty odor smelled when a bag is opened. At other times it may
be seen as a white, hairy beard or a bluish-green or black
velvety coating over the food. Any food found to be moldy
should be destroyed immediately and never fed to dogs.

Does any of this sound like food you would eat yourself???

If not, then even though it's labelled as "dog food" and could
possibly have some form of nutritional content (if you're
lucky), why feed such substandard rubbish to your dog? It
really can be harmful over the long term. Why else do you think
so many dogs suffer from degenerative diseases like heart
disease, cancer, kidney failure, and more? These diseases were
previously unknown in companion animals. Now they're
commonplace. And the increase in incidence of these
degenerative diseases in dogs and other animals has occurred in
direct proportion to the practise of giving pets raw food or
table scraps, to giving them commercial pet food.

The answer?

Feed your dog a raw, or primarily raw, fresh food diet. The
large part of the food should, of course, be meat. If you're
not a fan of raw food, then by all means give your dog home
cooked food, made from premium ingredients which you would use
for your own food. Of course, you can give your dog all the fat
and offcuts from the meat that you don't want. Dogs need some
fat (unlike us!)

And if you really need the convenience of a pre-prepared dog
food, then go for a top quality dog food - NOT one of the
commercial brands found on your supermarket, or even pet store
shelves. Even many vets have no idea about correct animal
nutrition, believe it or not, and promote commercial dog foods
that are peddled to them as "premium" food, when they're
nothing of the kind.

How do you know what a superior quality dog food is? Check for
both the ingredients and the method of cooking. The ingredients
should be primarily meat - not meat byproducts, a small
proportion only of grains of all types, and preferably some
fresh vegetables, fruit or herbs. As for the cooking method -
the lower the heat, the better. Don't go for anything that has
been extruded (which is most kibble), or canned at high
temperatures. If the method of cooking is not stated, then make
further enquiries of the manufacturer, or go for one that does
state the cooking method - freeze dried or baked are
acceptable.

About The Author: Brigitte Smith is a dog lover with a special
interest in natural health for dogs. For more information on
what's really in commercial dog food -
http://www.HealthyHappyDogs.com/DogFoodFor information on a
healthy alternative -
http://www.HealthyHappyDogs.com/LifesAbundanceFor your free
dog health report - http://www.HealthyHappyDogs.com

Of course we all want to take care of our beloved pets but is
it possible that parasites are endangering their lives?
Although dogs and cats are generally considered to be rather
disease free, they are both susceptible to parasites such as
hook worms. Otherwise known as Dipylidium Caninum, the “hook
worm” is a particularly nasty parasite that can and will
shorten the life of your pet unless properly treated.

Parasites like the hook worm actually have teeth that they use
to attach to the small intestine of your dog or cat (actually,
these parasites are also a danger to humans too!). Now these
are rather simple parasites with three basic body parts: the
head, neck, and tail. Every hook worm has only one head and
neck, but they may have several tail segments.

The tail segment is very important to parasites like the hook
worm because this is how they breed. Every tail section has the
reproductive organs for the hook worm. Sections of tail break
off all the time and are passed with other solid waste (in the
animal’s feces). Fleas, who lay their eggs in feces, eat the
tail segments and are thus infected with hook worm.

The parasites are passed on to the animal when the flea bites
it. It is also possible for animals to become infested with
these parasites by eating the fleas themselves. Therefore, the
best prevention for hook worms is to rid your home and yard of
fleas. Then, make sure the animal is free of the parasites by
taking it to your veterinarian. If infected, the animal will be
orally given a mild poison that will cleanse its system of the
hook worms.

Hook worms may not seem like very dangerous parasites but their
effect upon animals is cumulative. After prolonged periods of
infestation, animals will appear emaciated as they will have
been deprived of essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients by
the parasites clinging to their intestinal walls. In time, the
immune system will weaken and the animal will become prone to
disease. If left untreated, hook worms are indeed parasites
that can and will kill your pets.

It is usually possible to determine if your animal has hook
worms by inspecting its stool for the parasites. Plus, if the
stool is often too wet or runny, it is likely your pet has hook
worms. Pets suspected of having the parasites need to be taken
to the vet immediately as the risk of spreading hook worms to
humans is very real. After the animal has been rid of the
worms, be sure to destroy any flea populations in the area or
the risk of re-infection is very high.

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Good saltwater aquarium care means taking care of the fish and
water quality in your tank but it also means taking care of
your aquarium plants. Not only do your aquarium plants create
an interesting home and shelter for your fish, they are also
essential for the health of your fish, water quality and the
tank as a whole. Proper, saltwater aquarium care, therefore,
must always take into account the health of your marine plants.

Some marine plants are hardy and easy to care for while others
need quite a bit of practice and experience. If you are a
novice aquarist it is a good idea to start with hardy plants,
as these are easier to care for. Once you have a bit more
practice in correct saltwater aquarium care you can move on to
fussier varieties.

The first thing to do is to decide what you want to achieve
with your marine plants. You should do this even before you buy
your tank. If you want big, healthy plants make sure you know
what equipment you need, what sort of saltwater aquarium care
is required and how much time it will take you to achieve these
results.

If you are more concerned with the fish in your tank than plant
life then it might be a good idea to invest in one or two
plastic plants instead. Responsible saltwater aquarium care
means knowing what you want and getting the balance right.

While most marine plants do grow into lush, healthy plants they
all need good lighting. This is so that they have enough energy
for making their own food by means of photosynthesis. Without
sufficient light for photosynthetic activity your plants will
remain stunted or die. So part of correct saltwater aquarium
care involves making sure that your aquarium provides
sufficient lighting for plant growth.

To make sure that your plants are getting enough light keep the
following rule of thumb in mind: For each gallon of water in a
tank you will require 3 to 5 watts of light. Most aquarium
lighting systems are below that level, however so you may need
to shop around to find adequate lighting to make sure you are
providing the proper saltwater aquarium care for your plants.

In the natural aquarium the fish and plant populations are
perfectly balanced and compliment each other. Marine plants
create shelter, shade, and even food for your fish! Plants that
are well lit will give off oxygen and this creates a good
environment for your fish. So proper saltwater aquarium care
makes your tank healthy and provides optimum conditions for
plants and fish alike.

The fish will, in turn, feed off the carbon dioxide released by
the fish. Plants also feed off the waste that fish produce. This
helps to absorb some of the waste that might become toxic to
your fish. So as you can see proper saltwater aquarium care
means maintaining a healthy balance for all the life in your
tank.

To provide proper saltwater aquarium care for your plants and
fish you need to make sure that conditions in your tank are
optimal. Plant growth needs water which is at the correct ph
levels. It also needs the water to be at the correct
temperature for growth and survival.

Unfortunately this might not fit in with the temperature
requirements of the fish species you want to keep. So you might
have to decide between plants and fish in some cases. Again,
good saltwater aquarium care is always about finding the happy
medium.

Fish also eat or tear away sections of plants and this might
actually ruin the aesthetic appeal of your tank. Plants may be
uprooted by the foraging activity of your fish. So plant care
can be a bit tricky and does require some patience. One of the
most frustrating aspects of saltwater aquarium care is the
occurrence of marine algae.

Algae can really be a problem for the marine aquarist.
Sometimes despite the best saltwater aquarium care – lights,
substrate additives, fertilizers and CO2 systems – instead of
lush plant growth you are confronted with algal growth. Algae
can be very difficult to get rid of once it has taken root and
it can really limit the growth of other plants.

Usually the aquarist employs various methods of saltwater
aquarium care for combating this scourge. These might include
using algicides, bleach dips, antibiotics (for cyanobacteria),
manual removal or fish or invertebrates that feed on algae.

During an algal attack the amount of food and light is
decreased and different amounts of fertilizer are tried –
sometimes with success. Correct saltwater aquarium care results
in some sort of balance being reached.

The best form of saltwater aquarium care and algae treatment is
to provide the tank with a water change. In fact if you could
change the tank water daily it would be ideal but this is
obviously not very practical. You should change 25% of the
water at least twice weekly, however. If you can stick to this
schedule the amount of algae in the tank will be reduced and
your fish and plants will be healthier. A water change should
form a part of routine saltwater aquarium care whether you have
an algal problem or not.

So what kinds of plants can you grow in a saltwater aquarium? A
variety of plants are suitable for a saltwater aquarium. Choose
from grape algae (Caulerpa racemosa), Halimeda Halimeda sp,
shaving brush algae (Penicillus capitus), fan algae (Udotea
flabellum), corralline bush algae (Galaxaura sp.), sea grass,
red gracilaria (which your fish can eat) and many others.
Proper saltwater aquarium care means making sure that your
plants and fish co-exist in perfect harmony.

Proper saltwater aquarium care means really getting to know
your marine tank. Do as much research as possible to ensure
that your marine plants and fish have everything they need to
grow, stay healthy and be happy. If you get it right, your
aquarium will provide you with many hours of entertainment, fun
and pleasure. Good luck and enjoy your aquarium!

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