How to care for your dog?

"Beauty will save the world. We all know this is a great saying. Beauty will save you and our dogs from ill-will, and sometimes anger others, will help win favorable to them.

And how often at exhibitions and freeze, we delight: Here is a posture, gait, exterior, and shiny coat, and commands!

But we should not forget that beautiful dog - this is, above all, a healthy dog. And this dog needs daily care, attention, proper feeding, veterinary surgeon systematic consultation.

But what kind of dog can be considered beautiful? This question is not easy, and unambiguous answer to this question is no.Hounds, greyhounds, nark should be thin, lean body, as St. Bernard or newfoundler should look heavy and unwieldy. Beauty mastiff, boxer - in a short shiny coat, and the terrier must have a tight curly hair, wearing a beard and mustache. In short, the concept of beauty in general, and the dog in particular, is very difficult to admit a lot of interpretations, and relies solely on general and individual tastes. And for them, as you know, do not argue!

Wool

Wool in dogs varies, in different ways and have to take care of her. Probably the least hassle from the owners haired dogs.

Boxers, Great Danes, Dobermans, Rottweilers, and mongrels with short hair enough times in three days of brushing, not soft and not rigid, like a wardrobe. However, if the hair is very dirty, you can take and a hard brush, but its use must be carefully so as not to scratch the skin of the dog. Even if the dog seems to you very clean, not too lazy to take 10-15 minutes in the hands of a brush. This procedure is useful not only for wool, it provides an opportunity to massage the skin, increase blood flow to it.

By the way, now almost all have vacuum cleaners, and cleaning the apartment a good idea at the same time a little vacuumed the dog. However, her first reaction to such cleaning is not always positive, but this is only the beginning. Then, as a rule, the dog gets used to this procedure and even asked to be cleaned this way!

More trouble for owners of dogs with hair of medium length and long-haired: shepherds, huskies, collies, setters. Here, in addition to vacuuming, you need a thick ridge. Generally, the more you comb the hair, the better, but in the molting period is a must do every day. Incidentally, some amateur breeders do not emit a soft, combed wool, and gathered it, spun and then knitted warm mittens, hats, socks, sweaters. They say that things are out of this wool help with radiculitis and are the warmest.

Washing

Do I need to wash your dog? It is necessary, only very rarely. They washed the dog with warm water and soap or a neutral shampoo.

In winter, dogs love to roll about in the snow, and themselves this good clean their skin. And those dogs who do not like the snow bath, you can while walking to wipe clean the snow. Summer dog usually does not miss a chance to splash in a pond or river, he does well enough.

The sad fate of some light-fluffy dogs, especially lapdogs. The owners have even wash their pets almost every day, so even with soap and water. Hair from the immoderate bathing lose fat cover, become fragile and brittle. After washing the dog should be groomed.

Nose .

Over the nose of healthy dog care is not necessary. I awake dog, he is cold and slightly humid, and during sleep - a little warm. Some breeders believe that the tip of the nose can determine the temperature of the diseased animal. But better not to overestimate its sensitivity, put dog ordinary thermometer. If the temperature of the dogs are not above 39 degrees, do not worry.

Let your pets be healthy!

Dmitry Kolpakov
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What vitamin and mineral supplements to give Red-eared slider?

The problem of calcium in tortoises, and even more so in growing calves, is particularly acute because of the specific structure of their body. Therefore necessary to constantly give reptile calcium-containing drugs. This can be finely ground bone meal, which should be given in each feeding, every day. On a small scale individual enough pinch.

Aquaterrarium for freshwater turtles

Youth calcium preparations recommended to give daily, adults - once a week. bone meal are usually sold in pet stores.Eggshell may well be a substitute for bone meal. You can use the usual, "human" sulfate, phosphate or calcium gluconate . bone meal, powdered compounds of calcium and vitamins injected into the cooked food, or crumble them into pieces of food. Foods containing vitamin supplements (except calcium supplementation) are not subject to long-term storage.

Powdered vitamins (to combat beriberi C and E) and minerals are given no more frequently than once a month in the form of mineral supplements by adding them to feed. Sales have special vitamin preparations for turtles. Vitamin preparations proved well designed specifically for reptiles imported "Reptavit.

Turtles - in his element

Once a day you can spray the skin and coat of spray reptiles «Nature's Reptile Vita-Spray», which is a positive effect on the skeletal system of reptiles, due to skin and bone absorption.
Once a week, you can add a few drops of food "Trivita" or "Tetravita.
As you can see, the choice of drugs and vitamin supplements is quite large, and we should just not be lazy and constantly apply them, varying in different combinations.
That's just not try to use the dog and cat vitamin and mineral supplements - they are absolutely not suitable turtles composition.

Not suitable as turtles and a dog, cat food , despite the fact that "Red-eared" they eat with pleasure.
These combined feed designed for warm-blooded animals with a completely different energy metabolism and the need for nutrients and other substances, and therefore unsuitable for our pets.

Comparatively good combined feed "BIOREPT" Polish production


For the same turtles, and specifically for water, developed and are selling quite different in their composition, ready to feed. They recently appeared in such abundance in specialized stores, which sometimes is difficult to orient in a variety of prices and names, in a wide range of both imported and domestic production.

Cheap home (for example, St. Petersburg) food prepared from one type of raw material - dried Gammarus, dried and pressed Tubifex or moth. And all is good, but their disadvantage is that they are unbalanced in nutrient, minerals and vitamins.
Comparatively good combined feed «BIOREPT» Polish production.
But the best and quality, and therefore are more expensive food companies TETRA and SERA.

Foods and goods from the firm SERA

Very good variety and high quality feed, the American firm WARDLEY, but unfortunately, they are too expensive and not everyone can afford. The best of them - "REPTAYL T.E.N» ( «REPTILE TEN»).
For the young, very young turtles, the company produces special food from a mixture of dried larvae of various aquatic insects. It is sold in cans labeled "Forage for turtles» ( «Turtle Food»), and is suitable only for young animals.

Huge diversity of artificial feed is produced in large quantities, is not always worth trusting and lump all of what you see in pet stores. Very often, their composition does not always correspond to the real needs of the species, and does not meet the tastes of the turtles, which simply refuse to eat them.

Although it is possible that your turtle is like something out of ready-made pellets . There are indications that there are turtles, no complications grown only in the pellets (eg, Nutra Fin firm Hagen).

Fodder for turtles Tetra ReptoMin

Yet - advice: do not get carried away! Natural is always better And just as a dessert this rare and, therefore, a tasty delicacy - a sort of candy-granules, can be "spoiling" sometimes your pets.

Bon appetit to you and your aquatic beauties - "turtles"!

And in the next article will discuss how and where to feed the cats - in the water or on land.

Marina Dutta
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How to contain an exotic animal at home? Iguana.

Lately it has become fashionable instead of cats and dogs factories of various exotic animals such as iguanas. This prestigious, beautiful, and the content of these interesting animals there is no problem - they are unpretentious and quiet. It is even said that they very quickly get used to the masters, legends, and even bring shoes to the team. So why do you have a dog?

Iguanas belong to a family of lizards. Their length can vary from a few cm to 2 m in total, there are about 650 species of exotic animals, including basilisks. Habitats - mostly in the Western Hemisphere, 14 species listed as endangered.
Representatives of the family of iguanas are very beautiful and exotic. Colors they can be very diverse: from the greenish-brown to bright orange, almost fiery.

His unusual appearance, they must, first of all, the long ridge of skin growths, spines around the spine - from head to tail, as well as the picturesque «beard» and resonators. In this they resemble a real dinosaur, and they can easily show off to friends. Moreover, the lineage of modern iguanas really comes from the famous distant ancestors - iguanodonts belonging to the order of most that neither is on these dinosaurs - the real monsters in the tropics.

The main thing - to iguana most necessary - suitable food, possibly diverse every day, water in the aquarium from which you can and drink, and swim there, as well as additional heating lamps in the terrarium (large enough), because эта зверушка – выходец из жарких стран. Well, another necessary condition for the existence of the Iguana - a presence in her house for the tree climbing. This can be any stable picturesque snag, thick branch, a piece of wood, on which the animal could and climbing, and just sit on it, because in nature iguanas are arboreal lifestyle.

They love to sit for hours, froze under the hot sun terrarium - lamps, and perhaps remembering their homeland - the North or South America, where many of their relatives live on the shores of natural water, eating fruit, insects and small rodents ...

That and your pet need a similar diet - fruits, vegetables, may be in the form of mixed fruit and vegetable salad. The elements of it may be, and bananas, and oranges and apples, and carrots, and fresh green cucumbers, and red tomatoes, and kiwi, and pears, and grapes, as well as lettuce and cabbage. With only is currently in your arsenal - all this can crumble in the salad. Salad looks so appetizing and beautifully, even now write.

1-2 times a week can and should be given as meat and cheese. You can even sometimes, if possible, throw in a terrarium iguanas live-born pups, or pups that they have not lost, the hunting instinct, and with it interest in life. Some iguanas prefer only meat, and vegetarian food to eat sparingly and vice versa.

For normal life and a good digestion iguana should be in his home terrarium-point with warm daytime temperatures 31-35 ° C. The remainder of the premises must have a daytime gradient between 24-31 ° C and the night between 24-28 ° C. Adult iguanas are more resistant to lowering of temperature and the minimum night temperature for them can go down to 22 ° C, require higher young - less than 24 ° C.
Some difference must be present in the terrarium necessarily - as in nature, where there are patches of sunlight and shadow. In the terrarium iguana permanently moves from the warmest area in the cooler area and vice versa, thus supporting the optimum temperature of the body.

One, sometimes two a day should clear up in a terrarium - clean the mat or straw mat, change the water in the aquarium, rinse clean under running water feeder - usually a bowl, like a cat, you can buy now at any pet store. Aquarium can also be purchased in a pet shop, good range of them is large and varied - from very large to small and medium-sized, round and square. But, of course, necessary that the size of your pet's water reservoir was such that he could dive into it completely. Bathing - a very important component in the content of these animals.
After swimming with iguanas are very pleased to climb to its picturesque trees, which you them to ensure that enough to get warm under the lights, froze and closed his eyes with pleasure.

At first, more familiar with your new family member, should not be too familiar, let alone behave rudely. Iguanas that can not stand, and you will only provoke their aggression, which can immediately gain a foothold in their behavior. Initially with them should be very careful and prudent, until you understand the nature of the animal. As in humans, and among these interesting animals meet a variety of types of temperaments and characters. There are «typical» iguanas, and there are - very humble.

«Typical» often strive to hit the tail or produce such attacks, if they want to attack. Therefore, removing a terrarium or communicating with them, we must be extremely cautious and careful, watching their every movement, because animals can bite or attack just a habit or from fear and a sense of self-defense.
This applies particularly to young, inexperienced, and therefore wildly special. Do not yell at them, let alone beat. This will only aggravate the situation. They will become even more unruly and aggressive. It needs only patience, kindness, calm, smooth and quiet voice, smooth slow motion.

Peace-loving iguanas also be doubly rewarded for their good behavior - they can be fearlessly iron (but only when u are close with them), they do so without even turning a blind eye. During cleaning terrarium they are very quiet and peaceful behave, so they can even pull out of the terrarium at this time, we can together with the wooden leg, on which they sit. They will sit motionless and watch over you until you plant them with pedestal into place.

A necessary condition for good maintenance of exotic animals is to ensure your pet's complex vitamins.
As a mineral and vitamin feedings can use the following: a good idea proved to be vitamin preparations complexes Centrum, which can be purchased at any pharmacy. Also suitable reptile complex «Reptilife». Choose the most complete systems with mandatory vitamin D3. It is also good, if it contains beta carotene, does not result in hypervitaminosis, and transformed into the body in the required amount of vitamin B.

How often used mineral complex «Reptical».
Not bad Osteoform, Stress and other drugs with a high content of calcium.

In short, the content of these animals - it is very complicated and expensive, and think about whether you need it, be sure to read through as much literature and socialize with those who have iguanas, including specialized forums on the Internet. Details and additional recommendations on the content of iguanas can be found at


Iguana-Rus.


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