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How to Raise Chickens Even If You Live in a City
As far as pets go, chickens are incredibly useful to have around: A pet chicken will lay eggs, eat food scraps and common garden pests, and their poop can be used for compost. Raising chickens is also a good way for kids to learn about where their food comes from, and the work that is…
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Why Your Dog Eats Poop (and How to Get Them to Stop)
In the animal kingdom, eating poop is a common occurrence that happens on a spectrum. Bunny rabbits, for instance, have to eat some of their poop. It’s a natural part of their digestive process, and while we bunny people are fewer and less represented in media than our dog- or cat-loving counterparts, we have no…
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Cover Your Christmas Tree Water, and Other Ways to Protect Your Pet Over the Holidays
Some humans may think it’s the most wonderful time of the year, but their pets might not love the holidays as much as they do. For one thing, it probably throws off their normal schedule of sleeping 20 hours a day. Plus, there’s all this weird stuff hanging around the house that they’re not allowed…
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How to Throw a Dog-Friendly Barbecue
People joke about forgetting how to interact with other human beings during the pandemic, but the thousands of dogs that were adopted in the past 16 months may have never learned in the first place.