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When should you feed your pets?

When should you feed your pets?

Well it depends on the pet.

Rabbits need to have an unlimited supply of hay, so they can eat when they want. If you feed your rabbit with pellets, they need 1/4 to 1/2 cup of pellets per day for every 6 pounds of body weight.

We feed out cat twice a day. In the morning she gets half a sachet of wet food and half a cup of dry, with the same in the evening. She was getting two wet pouches (and less dry food) till our vet suggested we cut that down the wet to avoid problems with plaque build up on her teeth.  She suppliments her diet with bird food, toast crumbs and the residue in bowls of porridge.

Dogs should also be fed twice a day.

Dogs vary in size so be shure to feed an apropriate ammount.

Goldfish are easily overfed. Dont provide more food than the fish will consume in 2 minutes.

 

When should you neuter a cat?

Most vets agree that neutering should be performed when a cat is between four and six months old.  Do not let your cat become a parent unless you can cope with the litters.

 

When should you neuter a dog?

Since the whole point of neutering a dog is to prevent puppies, the answer is to neuter them before they reach an age where they can reproduce. For most dogs, both male and female, this is around six months, so you should  neuter your dog at the age of about five months. There are considerable health benefits to female dogs and both males and females are generally less of a handful without those hormones wooshing about.