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What to Do With Your Dog During the Holidays: Three Boarding Options
When you can't take your dog home for the holidays, you have three main options: home-style boarding, in-home feeding visits, or a professional facility. Sensitive or easily stressed dogs usually do best with someone coming to your home, while outgoing dogs may tolerate a kennel. Whatever you choose, your dog's safety and basic needs come first—prefer people you know and inspect any facility in advance.
Are Mini Lop Rabbits Easy to Care For?
Mini lop rabbits are fairly easy to keep thanks to their small size and gentle nature, but new owners should know a few basics. They enjoy vegetables, carrots, pellets, and hay, yet a single food long term is unhealthy, so vary the diet. Their short coat needs less brushing than long-haired breeds, but ears and paw soles must be cleaned regularly to prevent infection. They are active and playful, needing space and daily exercise, and they crave human interaction and companionship for comfort and fun.
Severum Cichlid
The Severum (Cichlasoma severum), also known as the Pineapple Fish, originates from Guyana, Brazil, and the Amazon basin and was introduced to China in the 1990s. With a distinctive look and robust body, it is gentle except during breeding and is a popular cichlid.
Swallow Beauty
The Swallow Beauty, also called the Swallow Beauty Lantern Fish, gets its name from pelvic fins that have mutated into two long, pointed fins shaped like a swallow. It was first discovered by a German aquarist in 1973.
Peacock Bass
The Peacock Bass (Cichla ocellaris), also known as the Crown Three-Band Cichlid, is a large predatory cichlid reaching 30-60 cm as an adult. A fierce carnivore, it should be fed live prey or trained onto fish-meat chunks and must not be kept with smaller tank mates.
Bloodfin Tetra
The Bloodfin Tetra, also known as the Redfin Fish or Redfin Characin, is named for its silvery-white body and blood-red fins. Native to Argentina, it is a lively, schooling fish that is very easy to keep, requiring only stable water quality and nutritious food.
Panda Corydoras
Native to Peru and now captive-bred, the Panda Corydoras is a small but very well-known corydoras catfish, named for its panda-like coloration.
Whitecheek Tang
Also called the Clown Tang or Gold-rim Tang, the Whitecheek Tang has a purple-blue body and a blue tail with yellow stripes, making it very attractive. Its care is moderately difficult and not for beginners; a tank of at least 300 liters is required.
Azuma Goldfish
The Azuma goldfish is a goldfish variety. Unusually, it does not show its pretty pattern at first; the color appears slowly months after hatching. Its habits are the same as other goldfish.
Saddle Valentini Puffer
The saddle Valentini puffer, also called the black-saddle puffer, lacks pelvic fins, but this does not stop it swimming freely in the tank. When startled, such as by a net, it inflates to protect itself.