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• Excess Thirst and Urination

  These are non-specific clinical signs and can be caused by many different conditions and diseases.

• Feeding Your Rabbit

  In the wild rabbits spend many hours chewing grass. This is a tough fibrous material that also contains abrasive silicates.

• Getting Your Dog Used to Ear Cleaning

  Most dogs' ears are a lot larger than ours and certainly a lot more sensitive. We usually only clean them when there is a problem and they are already sore, so the dog learns that handling around the ears is painful and tries to avoid it.

• Guidelines for Taking Your Cat to the Vet

  Cats are very strongly bonded to their environment and any change is likely to result in significant stress. If we consider the changes that we are enforcing on a cat when we take it to the vet, it is hardly surprising that many cats are very stressed by the time they arrive at the veterinary practice.

• House-Safety: Confinement and Crate Training

  Dogs are highly social animals that make wonderful pets. However, with the lifestyle and schedule of the majority of families, dogs must learn to spend a portion of the day at home alone, while their human family is away at school, work, shopping or recreational activities.

• Housing Your Pet Chinchilla

  Being normal inhabitants of the Andes, chinchillas can cope very well with New Zealand outdoor temperatures and can be kept in an outdoor aviary with plenty of branches for climbing and chewing.

• Housing Your Pet Small Rodent

  It is most convenient to house pet rodents in wire type 'bird-cages', although cages are available specifically for these pets. Wooden cages are not suitable as rodents love to chew and can really destroy their homes.

• Indoor Spraying in Cats

  Urine spraying is part of the cat's normal scent-marking behavioural repertoire which also includes scratching, rubbing, chinning, bunting (depositing secretions from head glands on twigs etc., and middening (leaving faeces uncovered).

• Indoor Toileting Problems in Cats

  Indoor marking behaviour can be confused with a breakdown in toileting behaviour.

• Kitten Socialisation and Habituation

  Socialisation is the process by which the kitten learns about its own identity, the identity of its own species and the identity of the other species with which it will share its life. Appropriate socialisation enables the kitten to go on to develop relationships with other living beings in its environment.