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 equip the home place for cats?

Create your cat - it does not mean just bring her home. You must learn the daily care of animals. This may seem too complicated, but do not worry. Caring for a Cat is based on common sense and does not take much time. Like you, the new family member should have its own "property" and "personal effects". On this and will be discussed in our future articles.

Where to put the basket?
Cats have an amazing ability to find the warmest place in the house, where you can curl up into a ball and take a nap. If you have central heating, then the cat is likely to choose a sleeping place near the boiler. If no place is occupied, is not on the aisle and there is no draft, the best cat's basket put it there.
In cold weather, you can put in the basket heater (electric, acting as a heating pad) to the cat was warmer. But do not place the heater in the center of the basket, but on one side. This will give the cat an opportunity to choose the temperature at its discretion.

cat while sleeping
The cat can be attributed to its place, but it does not am I supposed to sleep there all night. Most cats sleep in beds arranged in humans, and select family members close to him on the "social status". And even if you hang around home plate with the inscription "CATS !!!», live here anyway, once the time comes to sleep, the animal you have settled on the bed. If you do not want to share your bed with this furry hot-water bottle, to accustom the cat to sleep separately will not be difficult. Rules of conduct should be established and strongly supported, until the animal is young.
To start, before depart to bed, take the cat in its place, turn off the lights and close the door. Do not forget to leave a toilet and a bowl of water in an accessible place for the animal. At first, the kitten is likely to be protesting against this "eviction", perhaps even very loud, but after a week or two he will master the "rules of etiquette" and a night to sleep in his bed.

boxes and cages for cats
Although most of the time you allow the cat to walk around the house, in some cases you may want to lock her in the pen. Sales are cells made of metal or glass of different sizes. If you are going to keep a cat no more than an hour or two, you will approach a small wire cages, but if the period of "imprisonment" is long, it would take more spacious cell, where you can put a bed, bowls, cat litter and toys. A large cage is also valid in order to keep the kittens there, when the house is unoccupied.
Metal cages usually covered with plastic, so they just as easy to wash, as well as fiber products. After using the cage should be wiped with a rag soaked in a solution of non-toxic disinfectant. This is especially important if you kept it a sick cat.

Cell is usually used in the following cases:
- The period after surgery or during illness;
- When the cat left in the kennel for overexposure;
- To isolate the cat from other animals;
- To be able to leave unsupervised young kittens;
- To dry a cat after a bath with a hairdryer or heater.

Why aviary and how it should be
If you have intact male, then it would likely be difficult to keep in the house. He will begin "to tag" territory, and the apartment will be persistent unpleasant odor of urine. If you still want to keep the manufacturer, then it must provide a separate housing. You can build an aviary in his garden. Ideally, the cage should have as many dimensions, it should be a house where you can hide, a place where the cat could bask in the sun, a special of cat tree and a variety of shelves.
Most enclosures constructed of metal mesh on a wooden basis. Be sure to cover the mesh top enclosure, the cat could not get out. House should stand on a flat surface, it must be embedded heater in the event of cold weather, and should not be a draft. There also must be "bed" and bowls. Must play with a cat, when you offer him some food, otherwise he will feel abandoned.
The best way to cover a portion of a solid (concrete), and the rest - a grass lawn. Cote will be used for the toilet of the lawn.
If you live in an area with heavy traffic, the aviary, even a simplified and smaller, it is advisable to build for any cat.

Cat ventilator ( "cat door" or "cat hole»)
They are only needed if you decide to give the cat the freedom to come and go as she pleases. These doors are opening with a vent at the front door of your house, large enough so that the cat could pass freely back and forth. Plastic or rubber ventilator attached to a hole, neatly cut in the door. Once tasted, your cat can enter or leave through the window, when she pleases.
There are several types of cat doors. But whatever you choose, they must be placed no higher than two inches above the floor, so the cat could have taken place, and not jump through them.Window may open in both directions, either in one, allowing the cat to enter the house, but not allowed to leave. In the pane should also be constipated, to keep out unwanted visitors. If your cat has started in estrus, the males will perceive local cat door as an invitation.
The only drawback cat doors - they create a draft. But you can select the window with the magnetic stripes on the sides. They will keep the door tightly closed until they open the cat.

How to teach a cat to use the vent
Some savvy cats learn to open cat door completely independently, but others need some encouragement. First, open the window, and then fix it in this position and show the cat, encouraging the animal to explore it. If you put a little food on the other side, the cat will dare to pass through the hole, and you make sure that the ventilator does not suddenly fell down and scared the animal. Once the cat has passed, pull down the window and using treats to entice the animal back, helping him to open the window.
Good luck to you and your pets!

Source: ZOO-business

Preparation material: Dmitry Kolpakov
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How to contain an exotic animal at home? Salamander: general

Salamander in all ages been considered a mysterious and mystical animals, as she attributed to the inextricable link with the elements of fire. Ostensibly, this elegant lizard can remain intact in an open fire and even live in it - whether it be a flame or a fire pit of an active volcano.

Meeting the salamander on the slopes of the volcano during the eruption, the medieval alchemists believed that the creation of this is the heart and soul of fire, its personification, and seriously believed that the salamander's body is made up of solidified particles of the ancient flame. It was also thought that the salamander could suddenly appear on the hearth, but she not only burns in the fire, and vice versa - has the power to extinguish the flames, even his unusually cold body and the strange mystical dance.

Fire Salamander

Pliny in his book "Natural History" says it this way: "Salamander is so cold that, if even touches the flame, it immediately turns off, as if it put a piece of ice.

Residents of those areas where forests are inhabited by salamanders, amphibians associated with the many wonderful lore and legends, often bleak. For many people this animal was personified by an otherworldly force. He was perceived as a strange monster, a messenger of hell. It also was one of the symbols of witchcraft and alchemy. Thus, to enhance the action of poisons to the desired substance added to the dried and finely comminuted salamanders.

Image salamanders in medieval manuscripts

Salamandra, depicted in the Middle Ages in the form of a small lizard or Wingless dragon, dancing among the flames, was also a symbol of the alchemical process of burning. Sometimes it portrayed as a human or dog figurines, supposedly living in the fire. Medieval theologians have argued that the salamanders can live in the flames and feed the fire.

In British heraldry salamander was given an honorary role: it meant bravery and courage. In Germany salamander somehow symbolizes beer feast.

But the relationship of this legendary animal with the fire still undeniable, and the first insurance company have salamander its symbol because it represented a safety from fire.

Transcarpathian salamander

Habitats salamanders - Eurasia, North Africa and North America, where there are several subspecies, differing in length and color. In our latitudes, habitat of this amphibian - Transcarpathia.

Fire (or spotted) salamander - a beautiful and quite large (up to 25 cm long) lizard. This is the most familiar to us, except for newts, Caudata. For the most part this land animals, their fingers are deprived of swimming membranes, and therefore in a deep lake, with no possibility of escape, the salamander may drown.

On land, she feels confident enough. Massive, wide body, short but strong legs and powerful jaws make it a strong and swift hunter. Hunt salamanders, throwing, like frogs, language. But, unlike frogs and toads, they lack not only moving, but stationary feed, which are using the olfactory system.

Allegory of salamanders in the form of a woman

Favorite places of these amphibians are mountainous and foothill forests, where they give special preference for beech, but not neglected, and mixed, and even the coniferous forests. Beech trees are the same, and especially lying on the ground rotting trunks of beech, these lizards are particularly fond of. They were happy to settle within them, where even in drought season is a high moisture content, suitable both for the amphibians, as well as for life and reproduction of "live feed" - many invertebrates.

You can often find salamander in the valleys and slopes of the mountain rivers, overgrown with ferns and studded with stones covered with moss.

In a favorable time of year - summer, autumn and spring - amphibians find themselves refuge everywhere: this is a heap of leaves and fallen branches, and courtines moss, and animal burrows. But winter salamanders crawl into a little deeper - in rodent burrows and other underground cavities, sometimes reaches a depth of 2 meters, where sometimes even accumulate a few hundred individuals.

Peace-loving and harmless in nature, salamanders, however, are well armed. The main weapon of these beautiful, like a painted lizards is their brightest "aggressive" color. Skin color - mostly black coated with a bright yellow or orange spots and stripes - intended to act scares the enemies. In addition, salamanders may, if necessary, to provide paralytic poison - salamandrin - and if anything can be put into operation a weapon capable of hitting any animal to death of small size, even the dog. A lethal dose of poison salamanders Carpathian for dogs is only 0.8 mg per 1 kg of body weight.

- You look at me? Well, I'll look at you! We can even meet!

Poison animal protection, in addition, his bare skin from bacterial and fungal infections. For man is poison salamanders are not dangerous.

Produced salamandrin (sticky secret milk color) so-called parotidami - skin glands, located behind the eyes, and have the kind of large, elongated warts.

Fire salamander - a bright and beautiful animal - thanks to its exotic color can decorate and liven up any terrarium and become a real gem of a home living corner.

About the same content and feeding of amphibians in the home will be discussed in the next article.

Marina Dutta
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How to contain an exotic animal at home? Varan. Part 1.

Varans belong to the family of lizards. Body length - 0,8-3 m. There are 30 species of these animals. They live in the Eastern Hemisphere. Predators.

They eat lizards, snakes, small mammals and rodents, arthropods, turtles, birds and bird eggs. Largest representative - Komodo dragon, up to 3 m in length, lives on the island of Komodo (Indonesia).

Emerald Island Indonesia - Komodo


A little smaller than the size of his South Asian striped giant lizard - 2,8 m, and dwelling in Australia, a giant monitor lizard - 2,5 m. Camaya big lizard fauna of Central Asia - gray monitor lizard, length up to 1.6 m. The length of the smallest, the Australian short-tailed monitor lizard -- to 20 cm are listed as endangered.
Meat giant lizards are edible, taste like chicken, so in some countries people are mercilessly destroy them for their tasty meat, and also because of the valuable skin that goes to the production of various craft and haberdashery.

Komodo dragon - not on whether the word "chest"?


By the nature of habitat, these animals are divided into terrestrial, semi-aquatic and arboreal. But the division is - conditionally, because All of them to climb trees and swim and dive readily, if necessary.

Tinted lizards varied, but not too bright. Tree lizards are often painted in green, which allows them to camouflage in the foliage of trees. They live in deep burrows, snatches of their own, or occupy the burrows of rodents, which then expand to fit your needs. The length of the hole reaches the monitor lizard 2-2,5 m.

Lizards have a lean, muscular body with well-developed five-fingered limbs and long fingers with large curved claws. Powerful long neck crowns more or less elongated head. The tail is strongly compressed laterally.
The body is covered with round or oval scales. Numerous polygonal plates cover the head from above. Eye hole is always open.

Lizards love to swim and dive

Long, deeply forked at the end and extremely agile, language, constantly sticking out of his mouth, serves as monitor lizards, as the organ of smell and touch, "groping" surroundings, smells. During hunting lizards make great transitions for several kilometers in search of food. Very fast run, chasing prey, as well as fleeing from persecution.

Traveling in search of food, many lizards from time to time vertically raise the front part of the body, relying on widely spaced hind legs and tail to vysmatrivanii prey or danger.

I look in the blue of the lake ...

With the approach of a powerful enemy might be hiding in flight, but often throw themselves boldly on the offensive. This greatly inflate the body, hissing and beating its tail on the ground, trying to scare the enemy.
Hard tail serves as a powerful weapon for defense and attack these animals, which they knocked down the victim or the opponent to the ground, and then cause him terrible, smashing blows.
Teeth were giant lizards are arranged so that when they are inflicting wounds tearing the body of the enemy, inflicting painful wounds. In addition to mechanical damage, they can also put on a dangerous wound infection, because often they are feeding the corpses of dead animals.

Overwhelming number of giant lizards - active predators and beautiful, cautious hunters creeping quietly to the victim and grabbed her and then suddenly in the final dash. Their prey lizards killed vigorous shaking, lifting his head up, and then swallowed, with a long neck like a snake twists, encouraging the rapid passage of food. If the victim is very great, monitors tear my teeth suitable for swallowing the pieces, keeping production forelimbs.

Nevertheless, despite their carnivorous, some lizards diversify your diet fruits and seeds of plants. Thus, fruits and fruit trees fed inhabits the Philippine Islands a large tree Gray's monitor lizard.
Arboreal South Asian arboreal monitor lizard eats ants, capturing insects with a long sticky tongue.

Reproduction
Lizards become sexually mature by 3-4-th year of life.
In the mating season the males fight fiercely with each other, causing each other for a long time does not heal deep wounds.
All lizards - egg-laying. The number of eggs in a batch of different species varies from 7 to 35 units, they are protected pergament looking soft shell.

And here I am! Hello!

The quantity of eggs of the largest - Komodo dragon - perhaps up to 10 cm in length and weighing up to 200 g. In the small species of giant lizards eggs are no longer than 1,5-2 cm Females lay them in the loose soil, filling the old holes in holes in piles of plant residues, tree hollows, and even in the building termites and ant.
Duration of egg development in the tropics is very high - up to 10 months.


In the next article will discuss the types of giant lizards, which are most often kept in captivity.

Marina Dutta
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What secrets sharks have ?

We are born weak and defenseless. We may be overcome as invisible microorganisms, and the giant animals. We never get into the lair of the bear and will not swim with the sharks. Even watching movies on large predators, we expect reprisals against them. But maybe worth a look at them differently? The movie "Jaws" long denounced the killers deep - sharks. However, these animals are just amazing. I'll try to tell them what they so special.

First, sharks are very graceful animals. form of their bodies are very vaguely. They exist on our planet in prehistoric times. They survived even the dinosaurs. All these long Millennium is a shark not lost in vain. Currently, the species diversity of sharks is simply amazing: tiger, prickly, whale, dog, freshwater, and even a shark-hammer. And that's not all, but many species simply have not yet been described.

Secondly, a shark for a single moment from birth to death does not stand still. The fact is that, unlike other fish, it has no swim bladder, which regulates the position of the body at different depths. Poor thing has to make a waving motion with his whole body. Otherwise, it "falls" at the bottom. Although known and shark-dodgers who gather in a special pocket of gastric air, and thus are like a bubble.

Third, the shark never sleeps. Try to sleep in the movement. If she goes to sleep at least not for long, it will not be able to overcome the force of gravity, and will be on the bottom. Depth may be so large that the fish can not already be up. However, the shark can not be switched off for long, resting on the rocks. Even in those rare moments of calm, it remains questionable on the check.

And spying, poor food. Because, fourthly, it must constantly eat to compensate for the loss of energy on the motion. shark eats almost everything, and with gusto. Perhaps that's why she got the glory of a monster. Not once fishermen were impressed by the stomach contents of their prey. There were cases when the stomach have found a couple of dolphins meter or 40-inch fish, with just 32 pieces. However, some sharks are able to pry his stomach inside out and, thus, get rid of unnecessary content.

There were times that found in the stomachs of sharks horse skull. This means that the mammal was eaten whole. The special structure of the shark's jaws, formed for many generations, can swallow it whole fairly large objects. Even 100 centimeters in your waist it is not a hindrance.

Fifth, senses sharks developed almost to perfection. It can feel a drop of blood for miles around. So she finds his victims. Yet it attracted different sounds and kind of helpless floundering of the body. Incidentally, only 39 species out of 250 seen in the attack on the people. And attack they have, basically, to separate swimmers swimmers.

Incidentally, shark teeth - is her pride. Imagine several rows of sharp as the blade teeth. And their number in one row may be over a thousand. Form of dental records can be different. The most common form - triangular. But again, there is a harmless shark, which was not lucky with my teeth: they simply do not.

Do not believe that sharks - giant monsters that will hunt you all my life. Maximum body length of the shark - 20 feet, but such an instance, you are unlikely to encounter. Often come across individuals 1,5 - 2 meters in length. Sharks live up to 30 years, but again - this is the maximum limit. Maybe now, fin-triangle, cleaving the waves, will cause you to not only terror, but also respect. At least, if you do not want to be eaten by the owners, basking in their "home", do not provoke them.

Tatiana East
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Why were lost dogs found more often than cats?

Household pets - dogs and cats - in most cases have become almost the center of the world for their owners. Possessed "dog kennels" and "cat-lover" can be hours to discuss the best food for their pets, shampoos, some clothes and even jewelry. Care for them, love them, but there are three worst things that anyone with a fear cats or dogs: is the death of an animal that has become completely native, and his illness or disappearance without a trace.

With the first, none of us can not do anything, but with the second and third desperately struggling. And if the animal is ill, then the path is simple enough - called the veterinarian, who must make every effort to help the animal.

In the case of the disappearance of all much more complicated. And troubling. For the terrible uncertainty of what you're standing face to face. Desperate owners are thousands of ways to get out on the trail "losters" and, fortunately, in many cases their quest crowned with success. And, as it turned out, much more often returned home lost a dog, but the percentage of cats that returned home after it slipped through the slightly open door and jumped out the window, much lower.

American scientists are interested in why "dog kennels" are often happier "cat-lover" (average number of dogs returned to owners is around 70% of the total number of missing, but the cat is - just over 50%), and identified several factors that make search dogs more productive.

What they found, analyzing statistics and individual cases of missing pet and its detection, good luck in your search for escaped puppy partly predetermined by the fact that dog owners more responsible attitude to the identification of their pet.

The dogs wear collars, written their names and coordinates of the master of monikers medallions or subcutaneous chips with full information about the animal (such practice was already introduced in our country, and we should not ignore it). "Cat-lover" is the belief that their quadruped will never fall into the street, ignoring such things, moreover, the "dog kennels" energetic start to search for the animal, while many of the "cat-lover" rely on the known capacity of their own pets to find their way home .

However, the success of the search affects the objective factor. Purebred dogs, to run without supervision, in most cases, sooner or later attract the attention of one of the passers-by, and he or shelter, animal, or will deposit it in one of the nurseries. Females same as walking, as we know, by themselves, lose chance. To attract attention, they can only in case of misbehavior, which becomes evident that the animal is in an atypical environment for themselves.

The traditional way, resorted to by the owners "losters" in America is the same as ours - is ad pasting stickers on the area of loss, as well as published in the newspapers and the Internet. However, in a sense, the American owners of dogs and our cats are happier, in the U.S. there is a developed system of shelters for homeless animals, which gets most of idly wandering around the streets of animals. It is through these many shelters can not return the animal on the sofa in his native home.

We can do is hope for a good soul, who will pick up our animal, and that he will not eat stray dogs protecting their territory.

Source: Marina Sipyagin
Material Preparation: Julia Belich
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What is the most aged film actor entered the Guinness Book of Records?

April 9, 1932 in Tanzania was born one of the most famous movie stars 30-40-ies. Chimpanzee named Chita (Cheeta) was famous for having been famous Tarzan's companion, and when the first films about the jungle hero relegated to the history and legends - that became the oldest chimp in the world and hit the Guinness Book of Records. Legendary ape that has experienced many Hollywood stars with whom she starred in the "factory of dreams", turned 76 years. And usually chimpanzees live in the wild, not more than 40 years in captivity a little longer, but still rarely live to 60 years.

At the age of a few months old Chita came to America with her future producer and trainer Tony Gentry. When Hollywood began adaptation of the popular novel by Edgar Burroughs of Tarzan, infants who have brought up a monkey, he suggested Chita on the role of the main girlfriend Tarzan. Monkey, of course, not to be confused with the human, which then appears. Is said that during the filming of Chita easily made friends with their male partners, be it Johnny Veysmyuller or the next Tarzan - Ron Ely. On his friendship with Johnny all were legendary. And the same legends speak of, on the contrary, Chita dislike to the beauty of Maureen O'Sullivan, from which chimpanzees clashed on the set.

Main role

Chita long outlived his friend Tarzan. The legendary American actor and swimmer Johnny Veysmyuller died in 1984, however, also in very old age: he lived to 80 years. Life as Chita after "Tarzan" very long ago looked like a movie. Chita, a sort of Tarzan among monkeys - that is, the chimpanzees, who have raised the people living in a villa in the California town of Palm Springs, along with his nephew, Tony Gentry, an actor Dan Westphal, and another five cinematic monkeys who had gone to rest. However, as they say, a special friendship with kin does not support.

It is said that he read did not differ healthy way of life: for many years he smoked every day a couple of cigars and drank several cans of beer. However, this did not prevent him from becoming centenarians. But now he has diabetes and, like many elderly bon vivant, he is forced to limit themselves in food and beverages and diet. As witnesses, with the growth of 120 centimeters Chita weighs 64 kilograms. Sometimes one takes out his favorite in the "McDonald's" and allows you to feast on hamburgers, retreating from the diet.

However, Chita reminds people not only that. He is not nothing human is alien, including the popular weakness: he loves to flog a car and then lie down on the couch watching television, and happy reviewing old films with his participation. In addition, Chita confirms an old truth: "A talented person is talented in everything." It turns out, is applicable to primates. Why, I've become famous not only for his roles in movies (only series of Tarzan was 12, there were other films, the latest of which was the "Doctor Dolittle" in 1967). This chimpanzee is known also as an artist. Chita creates paintings in the style of abstract painting. Several of his paintings were exhibited at the National Museum in London, and many Hollywood celebrities have decorated their walls of their homes.

Valeriy Yakovlev
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What to do if you are bitten by a snake?

So came the long-awaited summer season. Summer residents hurry to heat their homes, tidy gardens, cook barbecues in the fresh air and enjoy life.

"In the silence of the soul of nature, and the sky at night is that I want to look at it, do not stop, all night: the bright stars in the dense black background, and the moon - as a silver sun - things are bleak, and in the diffuse white light cast mysterious shadows, - with these words about a friend of mine describes life in the countryside.

I, in turn, do not like cottage or village, or the infamous silence. However, all the train did have periodically been there. It is rare to sit through six hundred parts, and, whatever one may say, and pulls into the woods.

Well, of course, if you go for a long time in the same timber on your unexplored paths, but often, gathering mushrooms and berries, you can wander in a wilderness ... that the meeting with a wolf or a bear can not be avoided. Fortunately, in our forests, located close to the country houses, they are rare, but here's a snake can be found. Therefore, when visiting the forest to observe safety precautions.

The first step is to go into the forest in garments covering all parts of the body, on legs is recommended to wear rubber boots. We must be careful, watch his feet and not grasp at anything that came to stir up grass and leaves with a stick, the snake will disappear in time feel your approach.

If you are still greeted on the way a snake, stop, do not approach it and, most importantly, do not be afraid. The snake never attack first, but any wrong move for her - an alarming sign. If the snake feels the threat down the drain, the snake will release its poison instantly.

And if you still could not avoid the bite of a snake, you should not procrastinate. You must first provide first aid, and then at the first opportunity to see a doctor, who will inject antitoxic serum.

Remember, you can not clinch a place bite his hand. The fact that snake venom might leave on clothing or skin, in this case it is not dangerous. The danger is only a poison entered the blood and clutching the wound, you can add it there. To release the bitten place, and carefully look, snakebite looks like one or two points on the skin.

In the first place to suck the poison from the wound. This can be done only under the condition that you or your friend, who will assist with healthy teeth, no sores in the mouth. It is necessary to often spit out, and remember, the language may be somewhat dumb.

Some advised not to risk, and urgently incise the bite wound on points to lower the blood with poison, but if you do not do this very quickly, then it will be useless.

Then you need to treat the wound with iodine, alcohol, Zelenko, but if no - attach mashed plantain leaves, and wrap the wound so that it does not hit the dirt. The victim must be at rest, preferably in a cool place. You can give him water, but not alcohol.

Poisonous snakes bite causes severe and prolonged pain and swelling, bruising on the site of the bite. Victims complain of back pain, difficulty breathing and heartbeat. In severe cases - a violation of consciousness, vomiting, a decline of cardiac and respiratory activity. The poison can spread rapidly on a large body surface area, while there is a decline in blood pressure, agitation, convulsions, pinpoint hemorrhages. Many of these symptoms can occur simply from fear, so do not panic and seek medical attention.

If such a misfortune befell you on the site next to the house, before going to the doctor, you need (spending above manipulation) wash the wound 3% manganese solution, in place of the bite to make the ice (or anything cold) and then put a bandage .

Be careful and cautious, relax in nature, observing safety measures, and then you spend time on the glory and without harm to health

Alexander Simonov
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How to choose a puppy?

Having determined to breed future pet, choosing the right day, you go for a puppy. Come to a specific place: a pet shop, kennel, a dog-breeder, a friend - but in general, anywhere, and you see how right on you are running about five, at first glance, the same lumps. Of these, you need to choose a single, which you take with you and make your favorite.

How to choose one of five, when they are so small and dear? What should pay attention to take his own-most of them?

Buy puppies need about the age of 1.5 months. If you take him over three months old, then by the time you take it to him, he may have formed bad habits, with whom you do not want to tolerate. Taking the 1.5-month, you will have the opportunity to raise it the way it is right for you.

If you buy a puppy, breeder, is a good idea to look at his mother, it can tell a lot about your future, four-pupil, because "like father like son". In addition to studying the appearance of the mother, you need to become acquainted with the state of her health. That is, ask the breeder about her ancestry, about which the disease had been her relatives, because these diseases can pass on an inheritance to your future puppy. Ideally you should get acquainted with the father of puppies.

Now you can navigate to and familiarity with the puppies. In this situation, is to forget about the rule "first impression most correct. Would be better if you choose not to order a puppy, on whom the first glance fell, and one that may take a few simple tests.

: First test appearance.
Exterior, of course, do not be a decisive factor, but when choosing a puppy, she plays an important role. "In a healthy body, healthy mind, so choose from all the biggest puppy, very well-fed, the one whose most brilliant coat. These are signs of a healthy organism.

II: a test of courage.
The strongest, most active, lively dog most likely is the healthiest of all litter. Slow and frightened puppy can have serious physical deficiencies and variations in health. I do not advise taking this out of pity, because, firstly, on its treatment, you spend a lot of money. And secondly, will still be better if it would foster no novice, and an experienced dog breeder. You may not notice right away the deviations in the health of the dog, and the specialist will understand it immediately.

There are some special techniques that help determine the most courageous and active of all litter. For example, throw something on the floor and see who is scared of puppies and run away on the subject, and who, though not immediately, but still come up to him and satisfy his curiosity. Reaching to the kids, you can also determine the bravest of them: Who will be the first from that and grow up a hero.

Third: The test of sycophancy.
Puppy, which from the very first minute dating starts to lick your hand, actively wagging his tail and generally have all sorts of signs of friendship, good only on one side. Tempted at all this, you risk to buy a puppy, which will be the same friendly and affectionate, not only in childhood, but when he grows up. Think about whether you need a dog who will welcome all and enjoy all the running - regardless, it will be your friend or foe.

Using all these tips still do not forget about your instincts. Listen to your gut feeling, because you to choose a puppy to live side by side for years.

Karina Knyazev
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How to get along with the dog?

Understanding the motivation of dog behavior is not only facilitates education and training, but also makes it more comfortable sharing with her residence.

Dogs do not lead a solitary life. By their nature, they are gregarious animals, and most feel uncomfortable only within any group structure.
When dogs live in packs, they inevitably will dominate among members of the flock, and to provide all appropriate "reverence" individuals of a higher "social status" and, simultaneously, to build a competitive relationship with those who are with them in one step "hierarchy"

These relations are not established once and for all, and are in constant dynamics. The most ambitious individuals constantly trying to improve their rank and higher, in turn, are forced to constantly reaffirm and defend their place at the appropriate step ...

The domestication of dogs has not changed the desire not only to build a hierarchical relationship gregarious, but also the desire to occupy the highest rank, claiming, ideally, the rank of subdominant, ie one who obeys only the leader, and, in some cases, and the rank of leader.

And as the leader of the relationship - are subdominant in real life rather flexible, in some cases, subdominant trying to take a leadership role.

Example:
A. docile house dog for a walk pulls the leash, trying to lead the host to correct it, the dog away. And a leash, defiantly refuses to execute commands.
B. Playing with the dog in all sorts of "taking" should not forget that, with a dog's point of view, wins the game is the one in whose hands or teeth is at the end of the game toy. After the game - it is not only and not as much fun as modeling, initially in the form of a game, real ranks relationship.
B. The dog, do not let anyone from the household to the bowl with food, did not protect her, as many people think, but directly and unequivocally affirms the right leader for priority access to food.
G. Dog lied on the "trail" in a narrow corridor in front of the room, and causes a household to bypass it, thus confirms their right to choose their leader. And when stepping through it, friendly and obedient dog usually sometimes starts to growl, baring his teeth and make attempts demonstrative biting.

very important that the owner remained the leader in all situations.

Conduct in the pack and the principle of unconditional obedience to the leader inherits a puppy and growing under the influence of the mother. While the puppies are with her, she is the only leader, and puppies are certainly subject to it.

Female uses a sharp and immediate physical punishment, preceded by a warning growl.

Adult leader of subjects and disciplines members of the pack look and gesture, sometimes adding a voice / growl. Purely physical effects of the leader uses extremely rarely and only as a rule, in cases where someone subdominants makes constant attempts to seize power.

In the human family-pack will always be a few individuals, whose position is higher than that of dogs, but are also subject to the leader.

It is important that dogs are not allowed to consider themselves a leader to whom any of the household.

In addition, there are patterns of behavior, characteristic of certain breeds of dogs, and who also need to consider when choosing a dog for the content in the home or summer conditions. The fact is that not all innate behavioral patterns lend themselves to successful correction

Congenital habits

Despite the fact that dogs are domesticated for many thousands of years ago, they are still largely similar to their wild ancestors. Much of that is for the dog, a manifestation of natural behavior, may be not only convenient, but also unsafe for the content of the dog in the family.

Natural behavior for dogs is:
- Investigate unfamiliar objects, animals or people by a careful sniffing.
- Taste or eat any potentially edible object within reach.
- Dig the earth in order to hide the booty or trophies.
- Read the food and toys to their property.
- To pursue any moving object.
- Isle of feeling alone and scream to attract attention.
- To feel jealous of the new members of the family, especially if more attention was given to the child, but not domiciled in the house dog.
- Trying to lick the man's face, more precisely, in the corner of the lips. (This is a sign of subordination and affection. This puppy licking his mother's face to provoke it to vomiting half-digested food.)
- Chew any solid objects. In the puppy age is associated with the change of teeth, as well as adults - is a way to reduce depression and dispel the boredom.
- Wallow in the hard and sharp-smelling substances.

If a family has more animals, the dog can take on their dominant rank, or take a subordinate relationship, but again I stress, it should not be dominant in relation to the household.

Alex Semenov
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