Pleasing 4 Pets

If your dog hasn’t been used to spending time outside you’ll need to introduce it to them slowly.  They may feel overwhelmed and beg to go back indoors so you’ll need to encourage them outside with activities so that they cab build their confidence.
Here are some tips on the types of activities you can do to get them outdoors:

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When you have a dog you need to incorporate activities outside into your life to provide your pet with the exercise and stimulation that he needs.  Letting your dog sniff around your back garden just isn’t enough!  Here are just some of the major benefits to outdoor activity with your pet dog:

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Many birds native to the UK have seen their numbers decline steadily over recent years.

For that reason bird lovers consider it very important that the British nation make efforts to provide our feathered friends with good food, particularly during the cold spell that that weather forecasters are predicting for February,

Bird lover Dave Jones from Pets at Home in Andover has offered some tips on how to keep our wild birds healthy over the winter period.

He said:-

“Bread has traditionally been considered a good option for birds, but whilst not harmful it doesn’t actually provide birds with goodness or nutrients.

It could even be detrimental, as the birds fill up on it and not other, more nutritious foods.

Peanuts are a staple food for most garden birds however you can also select and mix a variety of seeds to produce a wild bird seed that will provide garden birds with a balanced and nutritious diet.

Seed can be fed from a bird table or hanging feeders to help the birds overcome periods of natural food shortage and survive severe winter weather.”

Pets at Home offer some ideal foodstuffs for wild birds including fat balls and suet blocks, which will help to provide the birds with some much needed extra body weight, providing them with a greater chance of surviving the freezing British weather.

A company based in Seoul, South Korea has revealed that it expects the cloning of domestic pets to become less expensive in future due to a brand new technique which they have developed.

The company, RNL Bio has confirmed that it has effectively cloned two pups from a beagle by utilising stem cells from the fat tissue of the dog.

A spokesperson for the company revealed that this new method of cloning had improved success rates by as much as 50%.

In 2008 RNL Bio are believed to have produced the very first commercially cloned canine - a Pit Bull Terrier for a US resident.

It is also understood that more recently a Florida couple purchased a puppy cloned from their dead pet for $155,000 from a company in South Korea.

Traditionally scientists have used skin cells from canine donors to obtain DNA which is then fuses with an egg to produce a clone.

But scientists at RNL Bio retrieved DNA from fat tissue and went on to develop 84 embryos.

These were transplanted into five separate surrogate bitches, one of whom has given birth to two puppies, confirming a 20% success rate in the new technique.

Heartless pet owners have thrown nine rabbits from a car window into the New Forest in Southern England.

A member of the public saw the rabbits being thrown from the silver car in Bartley and was able to rescue 7 of the 9 rabbits, and notified the RSPCA.

The animal welfare charity are concerned the cruel pet owners many have more animals entrusted to their care.

Fears have now been raised that the uncaring pet owners may have other animals in their care.

The car is thought to be a Vauxhall Astra or a Ford Escort.

An inspector from the RSPCA said:-

This was a heartless and brutal act and it is lucky that the animals were not badly injured.

We are concerned that whoever is responsible may have other animals in their care and I would urge anyone with any information about this incident or who recognises the car involved to contact us so we can prevent further animals from suffering.

Many people think domestic rabbits can survive in the wild but they would be very easy targets for foxes and would not have lasted long.”

Six of the 7 rabbits rescued suffered cuts and bruises but unfortunately vets were forced to out the 7th rabbit down due to the extent of its injuries.