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Daily Telegraph Pet Subjects: getting rid of mice humanely, feeding processed ham to cats, making hamsters active in daytime & helping grieving cats
Tweet To read the answers to the queries above, read this week’s Pet Subjects column by clicking here. This week’s rescue pets are Womble and Raisin, two Greyhound brothers, pictured above. Contact Dogs Trust in Harefield, West London on 0845 … Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph Pet Subjects: training cats to use a human loo, cats with matted fur along the back, a dog with an upcoming bereavement and how to catch an escaped hamster
Tweet To read this week’s Pet Subjects column, click here. This week’s rescue pet is Shylo, a four year old white Boxer. She came to rescue with a skin condition and she was not doing well with other dogs. Her … Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph Pet Subjects: a hamster keeping her owner awake at night, human cough medicine for a dog, a cat playing with water & a dog with itchy skin
Tweet To read this week’s Pet Subjects column, click here. This week’s rescue animals, pictured above, are Shire/Thoroughbred cross horses, Katie and Gypsy, and they are currently looking for homes. The dark bay is called Katie, and the bay is … Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph Pet Subjects vet column: can hamsters drink coffee, teaching a dog to bark, a balding Daxie and an addiction to cat food.
Tweet To read this week’s Pet Subjects column, click here. This week’s rescue pets are Winnie and Wilf (pictured above). They are both about a year old and were brought to Cats Protection’s Farnham and Wey Valley branch after being … Continue reading
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TV3′s Ireland AM Vet Spot video: It’s holiday season: what to do with the family pet?
Tweet This week on Ireland AM, we discussed the subject of looking after pets while you are away on holidays. You can watch the video by clicking here, but I’ve added some notes below. For many people, the period before … Continue reading
Daily Telegraph “Pet Subjects: a carrot-loving cat, sausage-loving dog, itchy hamster, barking dog and Bob the street cat
Tweet To read this week’s Pet Subjects column in the Daily Telegraph, click here. Ben (pictured above) is 13 years old and has been in the care of Cats Protection for four months since his owner sadly passed away. He … Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph vet: Pet Subjects – a human with flea bite allergy, a hamster with cataracts, a maternal cat, what’s the best dog food, and the importance of keeping dogs safe around horses
Tweet To read the Pet Subjects column online, click here. This week’s rescue animal (in the photo above) is Anna, a seven-year-old utonagan, a rare breed of dog. To find out more, visit bluecross.org.uk or contact Blue Cross in Tiverton, … Continue reading
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This week’s radio interview: a call from a hamster owner in trouble
Tweet In this week’s live interview on East Coast FM, we received a call from a hamster owner who’d got themselves into a bit of bother. To listen, click on the play button below:
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Pet Subjects column from the Telegraph: do hamster whiskers regrow, dealing with bully cats and trying to make dogs and cats get on well together
Tweet Here’s my latest Pet Subjects column from the Daily Telegraph – to read it, click here.
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Video questions and answers on TV3
Tweet This week on Ireland AM, I answered a few questions from viewers as follows:1. Why does my dog chew his front feet?2. My Boxer eats a bag of apples or pears every week. Is this a problem?3. My hamster … Continue reading
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