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Pets
Elderley
pet care
- Elderly
pet tips - Be careful when giving elderly dogs (over 10)
bones. Their teeth might be worn and break. Soak dried food
in hot water for an hour prior to feeding to an elderly dog.
- P.B.
Food
- Before
rinsing our margarine or ice cream containers for the
recycle bin give them to your dog to lick clean. Dogs like
it and butter wraps too. - P.B.
- Our dog developed an allergy
to red meat (very common in older dogs )The vet recommended a
diet of cooked rice, veges, and a little dried dog food. He
advised us to buy the cheapest rice and cook it up in bulk
and to add carrots and greens. When we had chicken, she had
the leftovers as well. She lived another 8 years on this
diet and was very healthy and happy. - J.B.
Linseed
seeds cooked in the food for dogs, gives them a shinny
coat. - Margaret, Whangarei.
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When feeding puppies or younger dogs, boil up all your vegie
scraps (potato skins and carrot peelings etc), then when
soft, mash them up.... they really love it and it's great
for them. Also
lavender, freshly picked and rubbed along a dogs back, keeps
away fleas!!! - Kaye,
Te Puke.
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One chicken has many create uses. Firstly cooked chicken
makes a superb roast, any meat left over etc is great cold
for sandwiches the next day. Then use the carcass to make
chicken stock. Add 6 cups of water, 2 leeks, 2
carrots, 1 bay leaf, peppercorns, celery, fresh chopped
thyme and parsley, bring boil, then simmer for a couple of
hours then strain. All the chicken meat falls off. I then
use the cooked vegetables and chicken for dog food which I
mix in with their dog biscuits. I then use the chicken stock
to make homemade pumpkin soap, which I then freeze into
lunch serving portions. - Sandee Bee, Auckland.
Fish
- When I
clean out my fish tanks (2) I save the water for my indoor
plants, and out side one's as well, the water has lots of
nutrients, and my plant's flourish. Give it a go. - D.M.
Free
to a good home
- Free to a
good home is the best way to “buy” pets. No need to
waste money when so many pets are looking for good homes.
(One word of warning for those offering pets free to a good
home – make sue it is a good home and not on-sold.)
Health
- Put
a glove of garlic into your dog’s drinking water – it
keeps fleas at bay and works as a worm treatment. - P.B.
- Lavender, freshly picked and
rubbed along a dogs back, keeps away fleas!!! - Kaye,
Te Puke.
Making money
- I
bought 2 Chihuahua for $250. Sold one for $250, bought a male dog, had a
litter of puppies and sold the puppies for $1150. I have the where
with all for another litter and have already had 2 studs on the dog at
$250!. - P.B.
Security
- A small pure bred dog that
barks is the best burglar alarm.
SPCA
- Getting a pet from the SPCA
may cost more than a free to a go home animal but pets from
the SPCA are already desexed (or come with discount for
desexing) and have been vet checked and vaccinated already.
- Sweatpea
Transporting
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You
don’t need to buy an expensive pet cage to carry a cat or
small dog. An old wooden crate is good enough. Two washing
baskets placed one upside down on top of the other would
work equally as well. Hinge the sides with string ties.
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Forget a cat cage. Put
you cat in a pillow case to transport. Secure the top. Keeps
calmer as the don't slide around and they can easily breath.
- J.M. Christchurch.
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