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What foods should you definitely hide from dogs: expert opinion
Some foods are extremely dangerous for animals. In this article, we will tell you which products are toxic and unsafe for the health and life of dogs.
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Learn more about nature: Why you aren't allowed to feed zoo animals
In most zoos, you aren't allowed to feed any animals, especially if you want to give them some food you bring with you. While visitors often just want to interact with an animal and make it happy, it might be actually pretty damaging to it.
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Know more about nature: Feeding birds – you may be doing it wrong
While lots of people want to help birds and animals, not everyone knows how to do it properly. For instance, feeding birds is an admirable activity, but only if you actually do it right without damaging the birds.
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Befriending a Stray Cat: Be a Good Pet Owner
Wild cats can be quite afraid of people in general - even if those people feed them and mean no harm. If you want to befriend a wild cat to help it, then you should be patient and persistent.
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Important to Know: What to Feed a Shih Tzu
Shih Tzu dogs are at high risk of developing cardiomyopathies, which are heart diseases.
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Important to Know: How to Feed a Puppy
Up to 2 months, the puppy should be fed 6 times a day; at 2–3 months - 5 times a day; from the 4th month - 4 times a day, from the 6th month - 3 times, and closer to the year the dog is transferred to two meals a day. In this case, it is advisable to maintain equal intervals between feeding the puppy to avoid excessive stress on the gastrointestinal tract.
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Important to Know: How to Feed a Rabbit Properly
Adult rabbits are fed three times a day, and young rabbits - up to 6 times a day. Moreover, if you choose a mixed type of feeding, then in the morning it is recommended to give half of the mixed feed norm, in the afternoon - natural products, and in the evening - the second half of the ready-made factory mixture.
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How birds feed their chicks: Nature is amazing
Birds can be great parents, so they take good care of their chicks - they feed and protect them. But how do they manage to feed their chicks in their nests without even having hands?
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Rats: What You Can and Cannot Feed
Rats are very fond of nuts, sweet berries, meat and other protein foods. However, the consumption of all these treats should be limited so as not to harm the pet’s health. It is recommended to give treats no more than 2-3 times a week.
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Important to Know: How to Feed a Hamster
It is recommended to give rodents a little cottage cheese, a boiled egg, milk, and once a week a small piece of boiled meat. Many hamsters like small insects - ants, worms, grasshoppers, beetles, locusts. It is best to buy such “live” food in pet stores.
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Hamster: How to Feed Your Animal Properly
It is recommended to give rodents a little cottage cheese, a boiled egg, milk, and once a week a small piece of boiled meat. Many hamsters like small insects - ants, worms, grasshoppers, beetles, locusts. It is best to buy such “live” food in pet stores.
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Important to Know: How and What to Feed Domestic Chickens
The mixture for feeding one-day-old chicks must be fresh, it is fed every 3 hours. From the 3rd day, the chickens are fed a more varied mixture of cottage cheese, boiled eggs, crumbly porridge made from corn, oatmeal or wheat (the share of cereals should be 65%).
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Rules of foliar feeding: Gardening advice
You can use foliar feeding as your best way of feeding your plants, but you should do it correctly to get the most benefits. Luckily, it's not that hard - and we're glad to present the most basic but effective rules of this gardening method.
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Don't feed your dog from the table: Be a good pet owner
Dogs often ask for food when they see their owners eating - and it's pretty hard for some people to say "no" to them. Meanwhile, feeding your dog from the table is a bad habit, and it has multiple negative sides.
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Feed your dog at the same time: Veterinarian's advice
In most cases, schedules are great - and this rule includes feeding your pets. To form healthy eating habits, you should feed your dog at the same time every day, so it can get used to it.
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Important to Know: How to Properly Feed a Cat
In a recent paper published in PLOS One, researchers surveyed 1,418 cat owners to gather information about the effects of a meat-based or vegan diet on cats' health over at least a year.
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Important to Know: How to Feed a Cat Meat
A 2006 study compared the health of 34 vegetarian cats and 52 meat-eating cats in the United States and found that there were no significant differences between the two diets. Both groups of owners described their cats as generally healthy.
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Veterinarian's Opinion: Can Dogs Pears and Apples
Some fruits are safe for dogs as long as the recommended serving size is not exceeded.
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Interesting Pet Facts: Why Cats Love Fish
Fish is not the healthiest food for a cat. Too much protein and minerals. If you often feed a cat with fish, urolithiasis and vitamin K deficiency can develop.
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Domestic Pigeons: What to Feed
For pigeons (granivorous species) - barley, wheat, barley, seeds, buckwheat, millet, peas, lentils and other dry cereals. Salty/fried foods are not on the list - they are bad for any bird's gastrointestinal tract for obvious reasons. Bread doesn't work either.
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