Nutrition for guinea pigs

Guinea pigs do make good family pets as they are friendly and intelligent little animals. They live for between 4 and 8 years, so looking after them is a long term commitment. They also need to live in pairs – usually same sex pairs. You need to make sure that you have a supply of…

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Choosing the Right Food for Your Pet

The dog food industry has advanced in great strides, leaps and bounds. Pet owners are spoilt for choice by the kind of foods that pet food suppliers have brought to the market. The pet food brands now boast of everything from breed and weight specific foods to to those with low grain organic ingredients. With…

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Looking after goldfish

Gone are the days when a visit to a fair might have resulted in winning a small goldfish, handed over swimming in a tiny plastic bag to be transferred to a small, round goldfish bowl a few hours later. And rightly so. Even goldfish need to be treated correctly to avoid causing suffering and distress.…

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Keeping Degus

If you are looking at the pets available to buy in any large pet shop, you may have spotted degus for sale. These small rodents, which are larger than hamsters but not as big as rabbits, like to live in open wire cages which have a lot of ramps and levels for added interest. The…

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