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Cleaning products and disinfectants: risks for pets at home
The risk of cleaning products is not only direct ingestion but also residues on floors and bowls. Here is how to clean the home without exposing your pet.
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Home and environment
The home environment is the factor you can change at the lowest cost with the highest effect. Here you will find how to make a home safe, how to enrich it so the animal has choices, and which weather conditions call for specific precautions.
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Cold and winter indoors: which thresholds matter and who suffers most
Cold does not weigh the same on every animal. Here is how to adapt the home for those who suffer most, manage winter outings and when action matters.
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Creating a safe resting zone at home for dogs and cats
An animal that rests well has a place to retreat to and knows no one will disturb it. Building that retreat matters more than the bed model you choose.
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Slippery floors and grip at home: protecting the joints
Where the paw slips, the body compensates with strain on hips and back. Here is why smooth floors are a problem, who is most exposed, and how to restore grip at home without ripping anything out.
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Litter boxes: how many, where to put them and how to manage them
The right litter box is not a matter of scented litter but of number, placement, size and cleaning. Here is how to set them up thinking like a cat.
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Preventing falls and escapes at home: windows, balconies and doors
A cat lacks the sense of the void we credit it with, and a frightened dog opens doors we thought safe. Here is how to secure the routes for falls and escapes.
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Fireworks and thunderstorms: preparing the home and the animal in time
Preparing for fireworks starts weeks ahead, not at seven in the evening. Here is what you can change in the environment and what takes time and method.
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The air at home: smoke, diffusers and scents seen by the animal
An animal breathes faster, lives near the floor and cleans itself by licking: the same air you find tolerable can weigh far more on it. Here are the sources that matter and how to reduce them.
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Cat-safe balconies and windows: nets, screens and falls from height
Cats do not always land on their feet and fall even from low heights. Here is how to make balconies, windows and terraces safe by closing every opening to the outside at the source.
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A safe garden for dogs and cats: what to check
A garden seems the most natural place for an animal, but it brings hazards a home does not have. Most are prevented by the setup, not by constant supervision.
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Heat and humidity indoors: which thresholds actually matter
Two homes at twenty eight degrees are not the same home. High humidity collapses heat loss, and the risk threshold drops for every species.
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Vertical enrichment: designing a home in height for your cat
A sixty square metre flat can offer a cat twice the usable space without moving a wall. It takes designing the height, though, rather than filling it with furniture.
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Moving house: how to prepare an animal for the change
For an animal a house move is not a change of address, it is the deletion of the map it navigates by. The work happens in the preceding weeks.
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Houseplants and balcony plants dangerous to dogs and cats
Not all toxic plants are equal: some cause pain that passes, others destroy kidneys or liver within hours. Telling the two apart changes how you react.
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