HE is connected a ngo to assistance our pets . . . and is present to reply YOUR questions.
Sean, who is the caput vet astatine tailored favored nutrient firm tails.com, has helped with owners’ queries for 10 years.
He says: “If your favored is acting comic oregon is nether the weather, oregon you privation to cognize astir nutrition oregon exercise, conscionable ask. I tin assistance support pets blessed and healthy.”
Q) MY Yorkshire terrier Popsy tears the station to pieces.
She is the grumpiest canine you’ve ever met. She erstwhile adjacent spot my friend.
She besides has a phobia of radical trying to permission the room. She gets growly. She is simply a rescue.
What tin I bash to halt this? A behaviourist? Can you archer maine what you think, please?
Ida Robins, Plymouth
A) First things first, the station is an casual fix.
Put a cage oregon tray astir the letterbox to halt it falling connected the level for her to destroy.
She is doing this arsenic if it’s a alien invading the location connected a regular basis, and to her mind, she is fending them disconnected by going connected the attack.
The postie leaves each clip she does this, truthful she feels she has been effective.
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With regards to her growling erstwhile radical get up to leave, I’m guessing this is anxiety.
I deliberation a behaviourist would beryllium a truly worthwhile concern to travel and observe you and Popsy successful the location and springiness immoderate advice.
Q) FLUFFY my hamster goes berserk connected the instrumentality and helium goes truthful accelerated that I interest that helium whitethorn interruption his limb oregon harm himself.
Should I beryllium giving him much exercise?
I could get 1 of those balls and fto him tally astir the room?
Aimee Bullent, Cardiff
A) Hamsters question acold and wide each nighttime successful the wild, looking for food, structure and mates.
So we bash them a disservice by keeping them successful tiny cages.
The larger the cage you tin springiness them the better.
Running wheels tin beryllium adjuvant successful releasing immoderate of that pent-up energy, but marque definite they are solid-sided alternatively than abstracted rungs oregon spokes arsenic these ones tin so origin injury.
I’m not specified a immense instrumentality of hamster balls, arsenic the hamster has nary prime erstwhile it wants to permission them.
Better is to person a unafraid pen oregon tally oregon adjacent country for the hamster to get retired successful and research for a fewer hours each evening nether supervision.
Q) I HAVE a pug called Pepper who has scratched her eyeball connected the broadside of the sofa and my vet had to sew a interaction lense into her eyelid to support it truthful the eyeball could repair.
It outgo a luck but she is present connected the mend. Do I request to support connected putting successful drops now?
It has been 2 months since the operation.
And tin this hap again rather easily? I americium frightened I won’t beryllium capable to spend it adjacent time.
Sam Wilson, Darlington, Co Durham
A) I can’t archer you due to the fact that I didn’t bash the operation, and I don’t cognize what benignant of drops. There are many.
Your vet is determination for these types of questions and won’t caput chatting to you connected the telephone oregon possibly astatine a last recheck assignment to analyse Pepper’s oculus and motion her disconnected treatment.
Q) I HAVE a caller dachshund puppy and I don’t similar the thought of giving him shop-bought food.
Could you counsel maine connected immoderate homemade foods that I could supply that would springiness him the close equilibrium of nutrients.
He is called Jupiter and helium is six months old.
Dave Edwards, Balham, South West London
A) It is highly hard to plan a implicit and balanced fare that keeps your canine steadfast and meets each its needs.
My proposal is to spell with a marque that has qualified carnal nutritionists and vets moving with them, and who are members of UK Pet Food.
Star of the week
CHARLIE the gentle donkey has brought comfortableness to thousands successful peculiar needs schools, attraction homes and hospices, contempt his atrocious commencement successful life.
His proprietor Kelly Baker, who rescued the abandoned carnal 15 years ago, says: “We could spot however affable and bold helium was – helium has a immense heart.”
The 23-year-old donkey’s prima prime has led to him gathering stars including Rylan Clark, Ricky Gervais and Peter Andre.
He has adjacent appeared connected TV shows Loose Women and Casualty.
But his owner, who runs Kelly’s Donkeys (kellysdonkeys.co.uk) successful Beckington, Somerset, says: “He astir adores gathering those successful need.
“He is truthful gentle and puts his caput implicit the bedrails quietly.”
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Cut pets’ treats… it's nary biggie
NEARLY a 3rd of vets person reported a emergence successful favored obesity implicit the past year.
More than 70 per cent of owners conflict with nutrient information sizes for their furry friends, a caller survey shows.
More than 3 quarters of canine owners and 68 per cent of feline owners accidental they manus retired regular treats.
And 53 per cent of feline owners and 36 per cent of canine owners person nary thought what their favored weighs.
Sheri Ingram, 33, precocious enactment her three-year-old Corgi, Biggie, connected the scales and recovered helium had gained 4.5lb successful little than a year.
She blames the latest inclination connected societal media, which shows owners enslaved with their pets portion cooking.
The communications manager from Cardiff explains: “My hubby and I got into the wont of paying Biggie the food taxation which means helium has travel to expect immoderate each clip we’re cooking with cheese.
“His value shows conscionable however galore calories are packed into treats.”
Nikki Fox from Admiral Pet Insurance, which carried retired the poll, says: “Ensuring pets person the close information sizes, monitoring calorie intake and adjusting meals and treats are essential.”