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Making an obstacle course for your pet

Making an obstacle course for your pet

At the moment many of us are only allowed outside for essential activities or exercise once a day and some dogs that are used to having several walks are only getting one. We’ve all been discovering new ways to fill our time and some of us have finally been getting round to things that we have wanted to do for ages. This week we really enjoyed reading about a lady called Joe who set up an obstacle course for her dogs and her chickens in Clacton-on-Sea. Joe is a professional dog trainer and she has wanted to set up a course...

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How to care for your pets at Christmas

How to care for your pets at Christmas
Christmas isn’t just an exciting time for children – many of our pets get caught up in the Christmas magic too. They can sense their owners are excited, or they can smell the special food or presents under the tree and know that it is a special time of year. But it can also be troublesome too. This bog outlines some of the problems experienced with pets at Christmas and how to avoid them.

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Measuring cat and dog years – how old is your pet?

Measuring cat and dog years – how old is your pet?

Have you ever tried to work out your pet’s age in cat or dog years? Do they act their ‘age’? Until very recently people have used the same ‘multiply by 7’ formula for both - but now scientists reckon we’ve been doing it all wrong… A new way to measure dog years Based on average lifespans we tend to assume that a dog ages 7 years for each of our 1. So a 1-year-old puppy is like a 7-year-old child and a 14-year-old dog is a 98-year-old pensioner. However, scientists in California have just debunked the dog-year theory with new...

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