It's that time of year again, and while most people are rushing out to buy chocolate eggs by the dozen, there are some who'd prefer to get their loved ones a real live Easter Bunny.
Every year RSPCA centres throughout Britain (SSPCA in Scotland) fill up with unwanted rabbits, discarded by families who had no idea the commitment it takes to look after these cute little creatures.
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It used to be that your dog would vomit (and maybe eat it) and there wasn't much you could do but spread out extra newspapers. Now, you can feed your dog Eukanuba Special Care, with Omega-3, Omega-6, and other natural goodness, so that at least his vomit will be more nutritious. So if you find the Dog Deli bespoke stuff a tad pricey but still want to go above the typical high street, it probably won't bankrupt you (but it probably won't clean up any easier than the usual stuff). [GT]
Eukanuba Special Care
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Cardboard is an ideal material for cat toys, since in my experience all cats ever love to sharpen their claws on or chew it. Since all you cardboard furniture haters say you can cut up any old appliance box into a thing of beauty and a joy forever, you'll love the Marmalade cardboard cat toy DIY - print the template, attach to scrap cardboard, and put together as many cardboard mice, jacks or balls as your feline companion can take. Or you can get a pre-made cardboard mouse DIY kit (if that even makes sense) sent to you in exchange for agreeing to get marketing noise from Marmalade (which isn't a bad deal if for some reason the print-out DIY doesn't work out for you). [GT]
Marmalade cardboard cat toy DIY [via NOTCOT]
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Providing organic dinner and treats to the canine gourmand, the Canine Cookie Company (ack, beware that LOUD music!) provides nibbles like Celebratory Bones or After Dinner Mints (for the dog of dubious breath) or dinner cookies from the Variety Jar like chicken tikka mutt-sala. [GT]
The Canine Cookie Company
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We all have to make sacrifices in the cause of living domestically within wild Nature, and sometimes these sacrifices involve putting reverse capes made of neoprene on our cats. Funnily, the cats don't mind the Catbib in the slightest, and my Bester seemed to actually consider his an adornment. What the Catbib does, though, is disrupt the cat's balance just enough to make it really difficult for them to sneak up on birds, thus preserving the songbird population without need to declaw (boo!) your feline friend. Not only do they work, but they're only $9 USD, and if you send a picture of your pet wearing one, they'll send you a second one free. [GT]
Original story: Review: The CatBib saves birds and makes cats happy
It's just barely not too late to order from 3r Living and still get it in time for Christmas (providing you spring for 3 day shipping or faster). So if you haven't shopped for Cleo or Spike yet - your cat or dog, that is - consider the Hemp dog bone, Oatmeal pet shampoo or Mrs Meyers Pet Litter Freshener. And somehow manage not to stick reindeer ears on the cat this year? [GT]
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Posh pet nosh Iams (and boy does that cat look like a smaller version of mine own Lacerda) has around 2,000 animal shelters going at the international level in their Home 4 the Holidays drive to place orphaned cats and dogs in loving homes. Last December, their one millionth pet was adopted - a cat in Florida. This year's pet drive goes on until January 2, and with your new friend you get an adoption kit with some leaflets and some free pet food. Kittens are nice, sure, for about six months, and then you've got to live with them for the next ten to twenty years. Shelter cats, on the other hand, are so grateful that you've saved them from, let's be honest, a situation between death and near-death, that they wake up every day full of astonishment that the world is so fantastic. (At least, that's how Lacerda behaves; we found him, nigh-starved, in the kitchen one day, bolting down food from the communal cat dish, and he was so incredibly lovely that we couldn't be parted from him. I've met many wonderful shelter cats since then and although kittens are cute, with an older cat you know what you're getting - with extra love.) [GT]
Home 4 the Holidays orphaned pet drive
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It's that time of year again, and while most people are rushing out to buy chocolate eggs by the dozen, there are some who'd prefer to get their loved ones a real live Easter Bunny.
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