There are very few things in this world that can make you feel as crawly and itchy as when you know there are cat fleas wandering around your home. The constant paranoia this induces can be maddening. Every little tickle you feel is turned, in your brain, into a ten foot gorilla flea attempting to [...]
If you have a cat, you have cat hair. It’s kind of like, if you have a baby, you have poop. It doesn’t mean you stop loving the baby and give it away. You just deal with the poop. Same goes for cat hair. So although it’s true that the only way to completely eliminate [...]
I have to assume having a dog is kinda like having a kid. They eat, sleep, pee and yup…poop. Unfortunately, like kids, dogs are severely lacking in the area of cleaning up after themselves. So it falls to us. We should be happy to do it considering all the joy and pleasure we derive from [...]
Fleas are a tricky bunch, and I don’t think I need to add that they are a main source of horror for dogs and dog owners alike. The tricky part: there can be a million of them, and they can get anywhere and everywhere because they are small and because they take various forms (adult, [...]
If you’re a pet owner and live anywhere in the vicinity of these black and white little beasts, chances are you have already had to get rid of skunk smell on dogs. Maybe you’re one of the people who tried Febreeze, or beer, or women’s douche (yes), and perhaps you had luck. Perhaps you failed [...]
Want to know how to get rid of ear mites? Well, shucks, you’ve come to the right place. As part of the series of articles I’m working on regarding the topic of mites, getting rid of ear mites is part two, or part three–if we’re going chronologically. Ear mites, thankfully, are not a very difficult [...]
Supposedly, the average cat spends between 10% and 30% of its waking hours licking itself. But my cat Piper is no average cat. She’s a little neurotic, and has been known to lick bald patches into her fur. So getting rid of hairballs is a topic I know a thing or two about. Lately, because [...]
I think this will be the last article I write about worms, unless there’s some other really infectious worm that I’ve missed, but I think roundworms is the last of it. How to get rid of roundworm really focuses on pets because a roundworm infection in a pet is far more common in the U.S. [...]
As promised, I bring to you the next installment in the getting rid of worms series: how to get rid of tapeworms. Tapeworms aren’t really a problem for humans, which is why I put it in Pet Care, because the focus here is on pets and the primary cause of tapeworms, fleas. If you want [...]
And that’s a darn good thing. Because leprosy…aside from being kinda icky (not to be confused with ick) isn’t so easy to cure. Fin rot on the other hand, as long as it’s properly diagnosed, is pretty easy. I’ve been keeping fish for many, many moons now. When I first started out, and for a [...]
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