Treat Your Dog to Natural Flea Control with Garlic and Brewer’s Yeast

If you were to ask dog owners what the most useful new dog product to come out over the past ten years has been, a large number would probably name a popular topical monthly flea treatment brand. Prior to BioSpot, Frontline and Advantage, fleas really were a lot more challenging to control. Dog owners had to rely on shampoos, dips, sprays and collars in various combinations. Once a month treatments are undoubtedly easy and highly effective, but are they for every one?

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Prevention is the Key to Controlling Cats’ Hairballs

If you’re a cat owner, chances are you’ve learned to live and deal with hairballs.
We find them unpleasant to clean up, but for our cats they can be more than undesirable – they can be dangerous. Hairballs in cats and other animals that prevent digested food from passing through the digestive tract can be deadly. Impacted hairballs require veterinarian care to remove and some cases even call for surgery.

Just coughing up a hairball can be traumatic and uncomfortable for your cat, never mind having to take him or her to the vet for an emergency enema or surgery.
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How to Crate Train Your Cat

Many people think one of the great things about kittens is their natural instincts to use a litter box. While in some cases that instinct seems to be there, it’s usually learned behavior. You can give your kitten the best possible chance at developing good litter-training habits by taking a lesson from your dog-world counterpart – the new puppy owner.
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