Pet Care Advice & Buying Guides

Watch how your dog sleeps before you buy. Sprawlers and curlers need opposite beds, and buying the wrong one is why it sits unused.

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Cats are bad at drinking. That's not a quirk, it's a desert ancestry problem, and it shows up later as kidney and bladder disease.

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Width beats height, bar spacing is a safety issue rather than a preference, and the 'minimum' on the box is usually a sleeping cage.

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The inch-per-gallon rule has killed more fish than any other piece of aquarium advice. Here's what to use instead.

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Short version: walk on a harness, keep the collar for the ID tag. The exceptions are narrower than most people think.

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Scoop twice a day, strip the tray weekly or fortnightly depending on litter type. If it smells, the schedule isn't your problem.

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Most new tanks fail in the first month for one reason. Cycling fixes it, takes three to six weeks, and costs about the price of a test kit.

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It isn't spite, and it isn't your cat testing gravity. Four things drive the pawing-off behaviour, and three of them are fixable in a week.

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