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Advice on Animals

Animal Care and Behaviour

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Birdwatching
  • Birdwatching in your garden, and making your garden bird-friendly
  • Birdwatching in Spain's Wild West

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Cats
  • Choosing a cat
  • Behavioural Problems
  • Indoor Cats
  • Outdoor Cats
  • Cats and Diet
  • Raw food for cats

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Chinchillas: General care
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Chipmunks: General care

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Dogs 
  • Choosing a Dog
  • Bringing up your Puppy
  • Basic Training
  • Using Flexileads Safely
  • Finding a Good Training Class
  • Behavioural Problems
  • Learning from Dogs and Wolves
  • Helping dogs with sound phobias, and fear of fireworks
  • Dogs and Diet
  • Do you want your pet dog to have puppies?
  • Designing and using a dog garden
  • Multi-dog households: Enjoying life with more than one dog
  • Canine Cognition

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Ferrets
  • General care
  • Training and behaviour

 

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Fish
  • Pond fish
  • Tropical fish

 

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Gerbils: General care

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Guinea pigs: General care

 

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Hamsters: General care

 

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Hedgehogs
  • European Wild Hedgehogs
  • African Pygmy Hedgehogs

 

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Horses: Henry Bracken's 'Farriery Improved, or a Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery': A milestone in equine veterinary medicine

 

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The Parrot Family, including budgies, cockatiels, lovebirds, cockatoos, macaws and African Greys 

 

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Poultry: Keeping chickens

 

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Rabbits
  • General Care
  • House Rabbits

 

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Rats: General care

 

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Reptiles and amphibians
  • Snakes and lizards
  • Tortoises, terrapins and turtles
  • Amphibians

 

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Latest book reviews

  • The Labradoodle Handbook
  • The Cockapoo Handbook: The Essential Guide For New and Prospective Cockapoo Owners
  • Feline Nutrition: Nutrition for the Optimum Health and Longevity of your Cat 
  • Burmese Cats, The Pet Owner's Guide to Burmese Cats and Kittens
  • Puppy training for kids

Latest news and research

  • Impact of facial conformation on canine health: corneal ulceration
  • Prevalence of disorders recorded in dogs attending primary-care veterinary practices in England
  • Disease control through fertility control: secondary benefits of animal birth control in Indian street dogs.
  • Quantifying sources of environmental contamination with Toxocara spp eggs.
  • Clostridium difficile in faeces from healthy dogs and dogs with diarrhea
  • Impact of canine overweight and obesity on health-related quality of life
  • Effect of a diet enriched with green-lipped mussel on pain behavior and functioning in dogs with clinical osteoarthritis
  • Short, unstructured session with a dog reduces anxiety levels in students, and improves their mood
  • Research suggests canine companionship helps calm children undergoing cancer treatment
  • Dingoes in the dock

Care and behaviour of dogs

  • Acknowledgments and further reading
  • Aggression
  • Appetite Loss
  • Attention Seeking
  • Barking
  • Basic training
  • Behavioural problems
  • Behavioural problems in dogs
  • Being sensible with traffic
  • Bitches In Season
  • Biting
  • Canine Social Cognition, part 1: Dogs are special
  • Canine Social Cognition, part 2: Differences between dogs
  • Chasing Cars, Bikes, Joggers, Cats etc.
  • Choosing a dog
  • Coming when called
  • Designing and using a dog garden
  • Destructiveness
  • Do you want your pet dog to have puppies?
  • Dogs and diet
  • Dogs don’t bite humans
  • Dogs: Bringing up your puppy
  • Dogs: Helping dogs with sound phobias, and fear of fireworks
  • Fighting
  • Finding a good training class
  • Greeting guests politely
  • Jealousy
  • Jumping Up
  • Learning that some animals are prey, others are not
  • Mounting
  • Multi-dog households: Enjoying life with more than one dog
  • Phobias
  • Poo Eating
  • Possessiveness
  • Recall
  • Respecting other dogs in the household
  • Respecting passers-by, human and canine
  • Separation Anxiety
  • Stealing
  • There are acceptable and unacceptable places to perform (housetraining)
  • Toilet Training
  • Travelling safely in cars
  • Using Flexileads safely
  • Vet Phobias
  • Walking nicely on the lead
  • Walking On The Lead
  • Wolves, Dogs and Humans

Dogs on stamps

Akita stamp

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