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10 things; allow and not allow to your dogs

Posted by admin under Pet in November 30th 2008

If you love your dogs, you have to know about these things below :

  1. Dogs can be given salt in the food, provided that not too many. The body of a dog also need salt as well as to maintain the fluid in the body. All products sold dog food market contains salt, approximately 1% -3%. Give more salt on the dog breastfeeding, so it always felt so thirsty to drink more. This will improve the water milk it.
  2. Dogs should not be given the red onion because it will damage the body’s metabolism.
  3. Dogs can be fed garlic regularly. Garlic is very useful to prevent worms and lice. Food that garlic will be given to the savoury flavours that increases appetite dog.
  4. Dogs do not eat chocolate given, in addition to damage the body’s metabolism also damage the teeth.
  5. Dogs can be fed raw meat. Raw meat does not create a vicious dog, it is myth. Raw meat makes the dog fresher, raw meat more easily absorbed by the dog digestive.
  6. Dogs do not feed raw liver or half-cooked. Raw liver more risky contain worms. Raw liver should be cooked properly before given to the dogs.
  7. Dogs can be fed chicken neck bones because of its content calcium is high enough. Chicken neck bones are not as sharp chicken thigh bone. Chicken neck bones should be given a raw because if it cooked will make a more collarbone hard.
  8. Pregnant dogs do not get fed worm medicine because it will cause miscarriage. Worm medicine should give before the dog copulated and 2 weeks after the birth.
  9. Dogs are pregnant can be cleaned (bath), provided with special treatment. Dogs who are pregnant should continue to place its cleanliness, especially in the area around the nipple and vagina.
  10. Dogs should not be cleaned (bath) 3 days before and 1 week after vaccinated. Dogs who get a new vaccination must be maintained well, because after a vaccinated dog will be weak in the body several days.

Tips for choosing cat food

Posted by admin under Food, Pet in November 29th 2008

How to choose the cat food is a good read with its ingredients. The main material contained in the cat food. Materials that writable second, third, etc., etc. … is the order of the secondary material content in accordance with a written order on the ingredients list.

Cat food is good when written in the beginning is the chicken, lamb, or fish, not water, rice, or jelly.

Cat food that is good that contain more protein. And the rate of “ash” that many can cause long-term kidney disease in cats.

There is a definition that must be considered as “by-products” its means that the remnants of the processed product. For example “chicken by-products” its means part of meat. The bones, innards, beak, comb, claw, or fur

Wet food or canned cat food is better than dry food, and may be at risk of kidney pain.< >< ><–>

Listening the Koala’s conversation through cellular phone

Posted by admin under Wild in November 28th 2008

Threat to the existence koala population to encourage Australia to do some research efforts to prevent the recording of all communications with the animals through the phone. Researchers will install a number of mobile phone in the trees where koala habitat.

Like This news24.com, Thursday (27/11/2008), the researchers install monitoring equipment in a number of koalas in St Bees Island, northeast Australia. Researchers use the tools that connect with satellites to monitor the behavior of koalas and is used for voice phone that will light every 30 minutes, and able to record all communication koalas for two minutes.

Mobile-phone installed in the trees that use batteries and said the sun and each recording can connect and download directly on the computer of the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

“Koalas are able to communicate from a short-range voice, clear voice to long for one minute, the average communication takes place in the middle of the night, so we need tools to monitor their communications,” said researcher Bill Ellis.

Ellis said, previous studies revealed the form of voice communication by male koalas are used to mark his territory and is used to entrap female koalas married during the season.

“During the season marry, the male is seen as active in the movement seemed attentive but slow,” said Ellis.

Ellis added, research and sound and behavior of koalas can help to know the behavior of koalas, so if at any time habitat of Australia’s pride is threatened, the determination of the location of evacuation koalas can be easily determined in accordance with the ‘desire’ koalas, the koalas. Koala population is increasingly threatened by urban development that is increasingly rapidly.