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How to Raise Newborn Rabbit Kits
Raising kits is hard and losses are high, but if you ever breed rabbits you must know it. Here are the eight essentials of kit care.
How to Bond with Your Hamster
Hamsters are timid, so bonding takes patience and trust. Go slowly, day by day. Here is a step-by-step path to a hamster that climbs onto your arm.
Why Does My Hamster Tremble in Its Sleep?
A hamster that trembles or twitches while sleeping worries many owners. The cause is usually fear, cold, a fast heartbeat, or a disturbed day. Here is how to read it.
Preventing and Treating Doe Mastitis
Doe mastitis comes from oversupply or breast trauma and strikes about a week after birth, harming both doe and kits. Know the types and how to act.
Feeding a Nursing Doe Rabbit
A doe nurses for about 35 to 40 days. Good milk needs the right feed and steady water. Here is how to manage a lactating doe's diet.
How to Manage a Nursing Doe Rabbit
After birth, kit care matters, but the doe needs care too. Poor doe care means low milk, weak next litters and mastitis. Here is the management plan.
Why Dogs Get Interdigital Dermatitis and How to Prevent It
Owners may find, while trimming nails or bathing, that the dog's toes are red and swollen, or see it licking its paws constantly. If so, beware—your dog may have interdigital dermatitis. What is it, why does it happen, how to prevent? Below we explain.
How to Prevent and Treat Rabbit Mastitis
Oversupply, thick milk, unclean glands, low water or breast trauma can all cause mastitis in nursing does. It is a key disease to prevent. Here is how.
What Can Hamsters Chew to Wear Down Teeth?
Without chewing, a hamster's teeth overgrow and hurt eating, so many gnaw the cage bars. Here are safe things to wear the teeth down.
Is Yellow Rabbit Urine a Sign of Yellow Urine Disease?
Brief yellow urine is usually diet-related and needs a feed change. True yellow urine disease strikes nursing kits. Here is how to tell them apart.