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Most cat trees look like they were drawn by someone who never had to live […]

Most carriers only come out of the cupboard for bad news. The cat sees it, […]

There is a particular kind of dog who will bring the ball back until your […]

Most bird feeders give you a shape at the window and a guess. You know […]

The trouble with a fixed pet camera is that dogs move. You get a beautifully […]

Wire fences break, wooden fences cost more than the dog did, and neither is an […]

Wet food comes with a schedule attached. Dry food can sit out. Wet food starts […]

Most self-cleaning litter boxes solve the chore and create a new problem, which is that […]

The plastic exercise ball has been sold alongside hamsters for so long that it reads […]

Sugar gliders are the kind of animal that sells itself in a single photograph. Enormous […]

Hedgehogs photograph as cuddly and are not, particularly. The African pygmy hedgehog is the one […]

Anyone who keeps a snake has wondered it. The ball python comes out calmly and […]

Almost every pet gets a bath at some point. A chinchilla gets dust, and getting […]

Bearded dragons are omnivores whose requirements invert as they grow. A hatchling is mostly eating […]

A ferret is a burrowing animal with the flexibility of a draught excluder and the […]

The rows of little plastic cups on the shop shelf have taught a whole generation […]

A budgie chattering at its own reflection looks like the happiest thing in the room. […]

Ten to twelve hours of dark, quiet, unbroken sleep. Every night. That is a heavier […]

The bird with a bowl of seed is such a familiar picture that it is […]

The worry that stops most flat-dwellers getting a bird is the neighbour, and it is […]

A rescue bird that flinches from your hand is not being difficult. It is telling […]

Natural branches do several things a dowel perch cannot. Varied diameters work the foot, rough […]

Being woken at two in the morning by a cockatiel throwing itself around a cage […]

Cats are generally called senior at around eleven to fourteen, and geriatric from fifteen. Those […]

It is worth saying the important thing first: the cat is not doing this to […]

A cat who paws food onto the floor before eating it is usually read as […]

A cat on a lead sounds like a party trick. It is closer to a […]

Catnip is so strongly associated with cats that a cat ignoring it feels like a […]

Worry about the sofa is how most people end up asking their vet about declawing. […]

Every cat owner knows the motion. Paws pushing in and out against a blanket or […]

Pet insurance is one of those decisions that is genuinely hard to make well, because […]

Making your own dog treats is mostly about knowing what is in them. Shop-bought is […]

You pick up your keys and the dog changes. The pacing starts, the whining starts, […]

A dog makes an excellent hiking companion, right up until the point where you find […]

The doorbell goes and the dog becomes a projectile. Charming at ten pounds, considerably less […]

Grain-free dog food went from a niche product for allergic dogs to the default premium […]

You are on the floor at two in the morning, exhausted and close to tears, […]

The dog sits down mid-room and drags itself across the carpet. It looks comic and […]

Birds are territorial and they dislike change, which makes introducing a second one one of […]

The assumption behind most turtle setups is that a slow animal is an unbothered one. […]

Rats and mice tame well, and both are easily frightened by handling done in the […]

Most first aquariums fail for one reason, and it is not the fish or the […]

Rabbits are treated as quiet pets, which mostly means people are not reading them. They […]

Hamsters are sold as an easy first pet and the care is genuinely simple, but […]

Four gallons is an awkward size for a first tank. It is genuinely better than […]

Cats are peculiar about water. The clean bowl goes untouched, and then five minutes later […]

The Litter-Robot 4 asks a cat to step up into a globe. Most cats do […]

Pet hair does not behave like dust. It weaves itself into carpet fibres and clings […]

The moment a door is left open and the dog is gone is the reason […]

Gravity feeders solved the wrong problem. A tower that tips out kibble whenever the bowl […]

You buy a toy that says indestructible on the label and there is fluff across […]

A bird stands on its feet essentially all the time. The perch is the bed, […]

Birds are intelligent, curious and social, and in the wild they spend the day foraging, […]

Mimicry is one of the more remarkable things parrots do, and teaching it is genuinely […]

Birds have respiratory systems built for flight, which means they extract oxygen from air far […]

Wing trimming is a safety measure rather than a way of grounding a bird. Done […]

A bird that sang every morning and has gone quiet is worth paying attention to. […]

The image of a bird with a bowl of seed is still the default, and […]

A cage is not storage. It is where a bird spends most of its life, […]

Birds conceal illness. A sick bird in the wild is the one a predator picks, […]

Cats are territorial, and the resident cat did not ask for a flatmate. Most failed […]

A dog's wagging tail broadly means one thing. A cat's tail is a much more […]

The carrier comes out of the cupboard and the cat is gone. Under the bed, […]

The wet or dry question does not have one answer, and most of the confident […]

Litter is one of the few purchases where your cat gets a veto. Buy the […]

Cats conceal illness thoroughly. It is a survival instinct and it does not care that […]

A bored cat does not look bored. It looks like a cat that has taken […]

Cats do not scratch furniture out of spite or because they are untrained. They scratch […]

A kitten arriving has just lost everything it knew: its mother, its siblings, the room […]

You look up and the cat is already looking at you, and has been for […]

Sharing food with a dog is one of the ordinary pleasures of having one. It […]

Dogs are expensive, and a good part of that cost is optional. Food, vet care […]

Barking is communication, not misbehaviour, which is why the approaches that treat it as naughtiness […]

The first fortnight sets the pattern for everything afterwards. A dog arriving in a house […]

A great deal of what gets called bad behaviour is a dog with nothing to […]

Dogs age into a fairly predictable set of problems, and nearly all of them are […]

Some dogs cannot let you cross a room alone. Into the kitchen, into the bathroom, […]

Stay is a safety command before it is anything else. It is what stops a […]

Puppies chew. It is not naughtiness and it is not a training failure, and treating […]