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Seriously nutro's completely gone out of favor here. Where the shelves used to have endless bags of all the different nutro formulas petland and petsmart now have merrick and natural balance while petco has taken up the space with blue buffalo. A couple smaller stores that only sold nutro and...

I did calculate in my first post the approximate total daily calories from both dry and canned that each were eating. It came out slightly below 190kcals when the suggested, depending which of those suggestions you use, is more like 300-400kcals. Currently they are only getting one 5.5oz can...

I doubt they'd fit on a postal scale. I'm not even sure they'd fit on the human scale in the bathroom. I can hardly pick them up and not because of their weight (I haul livestock feed around all the time) but they are so massive they don't fit in my arms. I end up with legs and chunks of...

It would be worth it to check for allergies before doing something extreme. Like I said preventing the scratching won't make him comfortable. Just stopping him from scratching is not going to help the cat. It may prevent you from seeing skin damage but he's still going to be uncomfortable and...

Cats will go after human food even if they aren't really hungry. Some are so silly they will eat things they normally wouldn't (like salad) just because your eating it. They can act like they are completely starving when they just finished munching on their own food. The only time mine don't...

I have an extremely picky cat and so far she will eat innova canned (not a huge hit though), loves any flavor of california natural wet or dry, and kind of likes the natural balance canned pate but none of their chunky/shredded formulas. Merrick was completely dissed without question. She...

I'm watching my sister's cats and they are rather chubby. They've been to the vet several times and found no health issues. They are brothers around a year old. Currently they are eating california natural and have been cut back to well below the minimum recommended amount. Natura suggested...

If he's scratching his ears was he checked for ear mites? You can't have spent a ton of money and not had the vets check anything. If you don't know what they've checked for you might want to call them back up and ask so people can give better suggestions on what to try next. Just stopping...

Baking soda will most definitely cause respiratory issues in animals kept on bedding with it included. It's a pretty commonly occuring problem on guinea pig and gerbil forums and has also come up a time or 2 on livestock forums. Dust in general will also cause more respiratory stress and does...

I know it's not as much of an issue with cats since they spend so little time in the litterbox but pine scenting and baking soda are major causes of respiratory problems in animals. Baking soda is equivalent to just adding dust back into a low dust bedding. The phenols in the pine can...

The people posting would be the ones doing the research and anything they didn't learn first hand is from published studies. Most also started with bettas before moving on to other anabantoids and then more species of fish. Several that posted on those threads concentrate on keeping species...

Our outdoor only cats tend to have fewer health problems and they are fed very little commercial cat food while mostly catching prey. Internal parasites is the only increased problem. The shortened lifespan is 99% of the time due to accident or injury. Most are run over by cars, eaten by...

You can most definitely train a cat with the same positive reward system as a dog it just takes more effort. About the same as training more independent dogs that wander off if you don't keep things interesting and easy to accomplish. Proper training of a dog doesn't make them do anything...

I would imagine use would be a huge factor. If your jumping hard on it everyday the cheaper ones would break quickly. If your lightly bouncing a few times a week the cheaper ones might last many years. Cheaper ones are probably made of thinner and softer metal frames, weaker springs, and less...

Soaking is useful if you let a wound start to close or to open up a newly discovered wound but if you rinse at least once daily you can just shove the skin aside a little and it will almost always stay open until the next day. Then soaking becomes rather pointless and requires keeping the...

If you like world's best but not the cost try picking up a bag of corn cob bedding and see how you like it. Most petstores or feedstores carry it. World's best is just ground up corn that is probably heat treated. Corn cob bedding is just corn cobs that have been ground up. Nearly the same...

The best thing for rinsing an open abcess or puncture wound is betadine. Dilute it with some warm water (exact amount unimportant but around the color of weak tea) and squirt it onto the wound with a syringe. Salt is a rather mild antiseptic and better for soaking wounds than rinsing them...

You have no problem treating with maracyn but you won't use melafix? That's about 10times more dangerous. It's also far more effective if you have a bacterial infection but much stronger and stressful for the fish. Melafix is a good first line defense because it's so mild. You can still...

I know a few people who have treated their cats with permethrins or horse dewormers thinking they'd save money on a vet trip. So long as the cats survive the initial poisoning with the worst symptoms they seem to recover after a day or 2 and never show any sign that anything happened. The ones...

Most animal training principals and methods apply just as well to kids. No you don't stick them on a collar and leash but overall the psychological aspect and how you respond (negatively, positively, excitement level... etc.) works the same. My friend's a teacher and I have lots of experience...