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Care Before and After Plucking a Long-Haired Rabbit’s Fur
Before plucking, comb the fur to prevent matting. After, strengthen feeding with digestible, nutritious feed and add some vitamins. This article covers more tips and cautions for plucking long-haired rabbits.
A Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Golden Hamster
Small pets are easy to keep, which is why animals like guinea pigs were tamed. The golden hamster, also called the Syrian hamster, is a favorite. Here is how beginners should care for one.
How to Improve a Young Rabbit’s Constitution
For a strong young rabbit, manage its diet strictly and feed sensibly for balanced nutrition. Also keep its environment suitable and give moderate exercise to boost resistance. This article shares tips to improve a young rabbit's health.
How to Choose the Best Bedding for Rabbits
Rabbit urine is very smelly; bedding in the cage absorbs urine, keeps the rabbit from prolonged contact with it, and reduces odor. But rabbits may eat bedding, so choose safe, dust-free, deodorizing material. This article compares common rabbit beddings.
How to Care for a Hamster After It Gives Birth
A hamster just after birth is weak, so care for the pups while meeting the mother's nutrition needs. Here are tips for looking after the new mother and her babies.
Caring for a Chinchilla
Chinchillas are delicate vegetarians that often die from wrong food and heat. Choose a healthy, calm youngster, house it in a plastic-free cage at 8–25°C, feed a hay-based diet, and keep its environment quiet and let it clean itself in dust baths.
Rabbit Mastitis: Causes, Signs, and Treatment
Rabbit mastitis, common about a week after kindling, blocks kits from nursing and can kill the doe through tissue death or sepsis. It stems from dirty housing, cage splinters, oversupply from too much concentrate, or bitten teats. Prevent with managed feed and smooth clean cages; treat early with cold packs and ichthammol, later with hot packs and penicillin plus mequindox and dexamethasone, and surgery for abscesses. A sick doe can pass yellow-urine disease to kits, so treat both.
Preparing to Bring a Dog Home
A new dog, especially a puppy, stresses easily in a strange home, so prep the house first: put away breakables and hazards, and block any escape holes. Carry it with one hand under the chest and the other under the rump, let it rest before exploring, soothe night crying with a covered crate or a ticking clock, and confine a puppy in a roomy ventilated cage when alone.
Doe Mastitis: Types, Diagnosis, and Prevention
Doe mastitis, common in the first three weeks after kindling, harms both doe and kits. It arises from overfull, thickened milk plus bacteria (internal) or a bitten or scraped teat (external). Forms are acute (fever over 41°C, blue skin, sepsis risk), chronic, and suppurative. Diagnose by the red hot painful udder and rule out staphylococcal disease; prevent with clean housing, managed feeding, and sulfonamide.
Why a Doe Eats Her Kits and How to Prevent It
A doe may eat her kits from thirst after birth, low milk, poor prenatal nutrition, fright, a cannibalistic habit, strange smells, or illness. Prevent it with strong prenatal feeding and warm salted water after kindling, a quiet space, no scent changes or bare-hand handling, and fostering only after masking the kits with the foster doe's milk and urine.