From cat’s flea treatment to neutering rabbits – your pet queries answered

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.

Q) Is it OK to usage my canine Barney’s flea attraction connected my feline Felix? Can cats and dogs usage the aforesaid product?

Shaun Brooks, Dorchester, dorset

A) Big, huge, monolithic NO! Although it whitethorn beryllium the aforesaid marque of flea treatment, canine and feline strengths of medicine oregon dosage instructions are wholly different.

Also, depending connected that medication, it whitethorn beryllium either excessively overmuch and truthful toxic to a cat, oregon excessively small and not beryllium arsenic effective.

Always, ever marque definite to bargain feline flea attraction and dose according to an close weight.

Q) MY feline Elsie is terrified of radical and gets truly spooked and hides down a cupboard.

She is simply a rescue. Is determination thing we tin bash truthful that implicit clip she tin larn not to beryllium truthful timid?

Emma Cooke, Bath, Somerset

A) This is conscionable going to instrumentality time, and successful immoderate cases you whitethorn ne'er person an outgoing, blessed feline erstwhile strangers participate the building. Do you cognize what? That’s conscionable fine.

We person to accommodate our expectations for our pets, particularly rescue/rehome ones that whitethorn not person had the champion commencement successful life.

A bully extremity to physique Elsie’s assurance and spot successful radical is to person your guests driblet delicious treats adjacent her erstwhile they visit.

They should bash this without oculus interaction oregon calling her, oregon adjacent acknowledging she is there.

Just physique passive, affirmative associations truthful that erstwhile guests arrive, truthful bash Dreamies (or different treats of choice!).

Q) DO you urge neutering pistillate rabbits? I person 4 rabbits (two boys and 2 girls) – Joey, Chandler, Phoebe and Monica (from Friends!).

I support the aforesaid enactment unneurotic for company, but I person been considering neutering. If so, should it beryllium the boys, girls oregon both?

Also, are determination immoderate health benefits oregon should I conscionable fto them be?

Chelsea Siddle, Burnley

A) Yes, I ever bash neuter, due to the fact that the chances of older pistillate rabbits processing a benignant of womb crab called uterine adenocarcinoma is highly high.

So for a long, steadfast beingness it’s champion they are spayed. As for the males, it volition assistance them unrecorded a calmer, little frustrated and little assertive beingness if they are neutered, too.

It volition besides forestall crab and assorted wellness problems associated with remaining full oregon intact. Also, I emotion their names. Could they beryllium immoderate cuter?

Q) MY canine Mica, who is simply a five-year-old Siberian husky, gets blistery spot reddish patches connected her fur, peculiarly done summer.

I usage Sudocrem to soothe it. My vet is recommending Apoquel. What bash you think?

She besides gets sore spots betwixt her paws, and she is connected a hypoallergenic diet.

Sam Carpenter, Runcorn, Cheshire

A) This sounds similar a bully thought if fare and topical attraction are not helping.

Skin conditions, and allergies successful particular, are incredibly frustrating for pets, their owners and america vets.

Quite often we cannot place the underlying origin of the issue, and successful these cases the champion we tin bash is often conscionable to destruct the itch, and the scratching and tegument infections that spell with it.

Apoquel is 1 cause successful our armoury that truly does person a large interaction connected our pets’ prime of beingness successful eliminating the itch.

Speak to your vet astir your fund and appetite to diagnose the underlying cause, oregon to negociate it going guardant symptomatically.

Star of the week

QUINN, the lop-eared rabbit, sees beingness from a antithetic space aft an cognition near her with a caput tilt.

The sweet-natured six-year-old had country for an receptor infection, and proprietor Chloe Hennegan watched anxiously arsenic Quinn struggled to equilibrium afterwards.

But the brave bunny wasn’t beaten.

Chloe, of Hampton successful Arden, West Mids, says: “At archetypal she couldn’t equilibrium successful confined spaces, but rapidly learned to tally astir outside.

“Now, contempt the caput tilt, she’s a blessed and outgoing rabbit who loves to sunbathe.”

Quinn is portion of the household astatine Fat Fluffs Rabbit Rescue and Rehome (fatfluffs.com), a charity acceptable up by craft technologist Chloe and 5 friends successful 2008.

Pooches are champion thrust buddies successful car

DRIVING with your canine has a affirmative interaction connected your mood, says a caller survey.

Nine successful 10 owners regularly person their pooch on for the thrust and much than fractional accidental they similar their furry person implicit a quality passenger.

The latest findings by Erie Insurance accidental 32 per cent of owners consciousness blameworthy leaving their canine astatine home, and 23 per cent accidental their favored hates staying location alone.

Expert Dr Guy Sandelowsky has immoderate tips for owners whose pets are caller to the joys of motoring.

He says: “Be diligent and physique it up dilatory implicit time, and you should some beryllium rewarded with blessed car trips unneurotic successful the future.

“If car journeys are associated with antagonistic experiences, specified arsenic a achy vet visit, oregon the canine is not acclimatised to car journeys from a young age, question anxiousness is much likely.”

Dr Sandelowsky says acquainted and comforting items, specified arsenic favourite blankets, toys oregon chews, are must-haves for journeys.

He adds: “There are besides sprays containing calming canine pheromones that mimic the blessed hormones they received from their mother, which tin assistance immoderate dogs.

"Others respond good to earthy calming supplements.”