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How can I prevent my puppy from chewing on objects?
I have a 3 months old Labrador puppy who is very active. She is a very smart dog, maybe a little over-smart. The problem is that she tries to chew anything that comes into her way. Be it a ball, pebble or anything, she just tries to chew it. I'm…
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How do I know if my toddler is making a cat dangerously uncomfortable?
My son loves a cat in our building. The cat rolls on its back and stretches out, and my son strokes his fur. But then he tries holding the cat with both hands, sometimes around the waist (the cat steps out) and sometimes the cat's head. He gets more…
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What can I do if my puppy is hyperactive?
About a month a go I got a 8 week male dachshund and ever since the first days he seemed overexcited. Jumping up, chasing my cat around, excessive licking when someone pets him and so on.
At the beginning I assumed that it was because he wasn't…
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How can I resolve a fish conflict in my aquarium?
I want to have bettas in my 50-gallon tank, which will consist of schools of fish.
Suppose I obtain a group of (maybe 4) female bettas and I have a shoal of 10 neon tetras in a 50-gallon tank. There are about 8 places for the fish to hide. Would…
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Will my pet get sick drinking from the toilet?
Many houses have a room with a large white bowl that is regularly refilled with fresh water. The door is open unless the room is occupied. The bowl holds much more water than any water dish. Unlike the water dish, the bowl is refilled several…
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Can walking past my cat at night disturb her sleep?
I have always been in the habit of leaving my room in the middle of the night to get some food to eat in my room (which I make sure she doesn't eat, of course), but I recently got a cat (I had two cats eight or so years ago, but unfortunately they…
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How should I trim the wings of my bird?
We have a pet cockatiel. I have heard that only certain feathers can grow back after being clipped.
Which feathers are safe to clip to temporarily prevent a bird from flying?
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Do cats dream or is it just restless sleep?
My cats, and I assume others, show signs of movement in their sleep similar to what people show when they're dreaming. There seems to be some schools of thought that suggest that cats do dream, but is this really the case or are we just projecting…
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How can I train my guinea pigs to not attack one another?
I own 2 female guinea pigs. I came home one day to find that one of them had a large amount of blood coming out of its ear. There is nothing in the cage that would produce that amount of blood besides the other guinea pig, so I think it would be…
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Do ferrets get along with other pets?
While reading about things to know when acquiring a ferret, I came across this article that says that ferrets do not get along with other pets:
Most ferrets don't get along with birds, fish, rabbits, rodents, lizards, and the like, though there are…
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How does one stop a New Zealand rabbit from leaving droppings in the house?
A pet rabbit was found abandoned and was reluctantly re-homed at my house. He's healthy, has not been neutered, and lives in the laundry room.
Occasionally, he gets let out into other rooms, but leaves droppings. If not for the droppings, he'd be…
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How do I bathe my cat?
We have a skin infection going around in our house right now, and the vet's instructions were to bathe the cats with a special shampoo. Once we get them lathered up, the shampoo has to sit on their skin for 10 minutes before rinising off!
What's the…
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How can I get my cat to not be afraid of me?
We recently got an 8 month old cat from a breeder, it had lived its live in a cage with the rest of the litter up to that point. The car journey home was about an hour and the whole time I had my hand in the carrier and was stroking her gently. She…
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Which fishes can live together with neons?
I have some 50 neons in my aquarium. Recently, I've added some black tetras. They live together very well.
What other species could I add so that they would still live "in peace", i.e., without eating each other? There's some free space, so the fish…
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How to remove the algae from the glass of an aquarium?
I have an aquarium and it has algae on the glass. The algae is somehow so attached to the glass that I´m afraid I'd scratch the glass if I tried to clean it using some hard plastic.
How can I remove the algae without damaging the glass?
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