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Are Hamsters Easy to Keep?
Hamsters are fairly easy to keep: they need little space and eat small amounts, as long as you give a suitable home and balanced nutrition. Provide a roomy, safe cage in a warm, quiet, dim spot; feed varied food and clean water; offer chew items and a wheel for exercise; and keep the cage and bath sand clean. Avoid people food, long sun exposure, co-housing, water baths, and untreated tap water to keep your hamster healthy.
Should Cats Eat Raw or Cooked Meat
Cats are obligate carnivores and don't digest carbohydrates, yet most kibble contains a fair amount of carbs and grains that can trigger allergies. Compared with meat, that is hard to digest and disrupts the gut flora.
Things to Know When Keeping a Hamster
Hamsters look easy, but missed details cause health problems. Here are the key do's and don'ts of keeping one.
How to Care for a Guinea Pig
Guinea pigs are among the most popular pocket pets and fairly easy to keep: a roomy, dry cage with low-dust bedding, timothy hay plus guinea pig pellets, and a calm, quiet adjustment period. They are gentle, social, nocturnal, and live about 8 years.
Brambling
The Brambling is fairly widely distributed and is a small bird about 16 cm in length. It usually moves in flocks, pairing up only during the breeding season, and typically roosts in trees. Because it pecks crops, it causes some agricultural harm.
Japanese Waxwing
In China, keeping the Japanese Waxwing in a cage is not unusual—many have kept or are keeping one. However, no one has reportedly bred them successfully at home, so those seen in the pet market are usually caught directly from the wild. Due to indiscriminate catching and habitat degradation, their numbers are dwindling, and they are now listed as a Near Threatened species.
Bohemian Waxwing
The Bohemian Waxwing (Bohemian Waxwing) is a small songbird, recognizable by its slender crest of feathers on top of the head that floats in the breeze. Its lifespan usually exceeds 5 years, with a maximum of 13 years and 6 months.
Yellow-crowned Parrot
The Yellow-crowned Parrot is a very intelligent Amazon parrot with four subspecies. It looks plain and is fairly cheap, but has excellent talking ability; captive-bred birds are tame and interact frequently with owners, though most on the market are wild-caught.
Siberian Rubythroat
The Siberian Rubythroat (Luscinia calliope), also called the Red-throated Nightingale, Red-tailed Robin, or Red-necked Bird, is a typical ground-dwelling bird. Its song is varied and pleasant, with most singing at dawn and dusk, and is especially beautiful.
Red-whiskered Bulbul
The Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) has a wide distribution, mainly in southeastern Tibet, southern Yunnan, southern Guizhou, southwestern Guangxi, and Guangdong in China, as well as India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Indochina. Each March, Yala Province in southern Thailand holds an annual Red-whiskered Bulbul singing contest, rewarding the winning owner.