Animiyo guides

Safe home and enrichment

These guides contain room by room checklists and instructions for building enrichment from common materials, with dimensions and build times.

25 guides

Open the guideBeginner30 min
Making your home safe for a pet left alone
A method to make your home safe for the hours a pet is left alone, when an accident you would prevent while present turns serious without you there.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Keeping the home safe for pets during the holidays
The holidays pack almost every household hazard into a few days: new foods, tempting decorations, distracted guests. Here is a practical list to enjoy the season without a scare.
DogCatAll species
Open the guideIntermediate35 min
Making the home safe for a newborn and a pet together
A newborn and a pet can live together perfectly well, but the home has to be prepared first, not after. Here is how to organise space, hygiene and routine calmly.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Making the bathroom and laundry area safe
The bathroom and laundry look harmless, but they concentrate poisons, small objects and mechanical traps. One survey and a few habits remove almost every danger.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner35 min
Keeping pets safe during home renovation and building work
A home building site multiplies hazards within days: new poisons, wide open doors and noise. Here is how to protect your pet before, during and after the work.
DogCatAll species
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Setting up a safe room to keep your pet secure when needed
In chaotic moments the door keeps opening and the risks multiply. A safe room ready in advance prevents escapes, accidents and panic, for your pet and for you.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Making the garage and storeroom safe for dogs and cats
The garage is the most dangerous room in the house and the least watched. It concentrates the fast acting poisons a dog or cat can swallow before you notice a thing.
DogCat
Open the guideIntermediate40 min
Making your home safe for a free flying bird
A free flying bird faces hazards no dog or cat knows, many of them invisible. Safety is built before you open the cage, not after.
Birds
Open the guideBeginner35 min
Making stairs and railings safe at home
Stairs feel harmless because we use them every day without thinking. For a puppy, a cat or an older dog they are one of the most dangerous spots in the home.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner45 min
Making slippery floors safe for your dog and cat
Smooth floors are a silent hazard: here is how to add grip around the home, care for paws and nails, and protect the most fragile animals from slips.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner35 min
Making the home safe for a kitten that climbs everywhere
A kitten climbs because it is wired to. This guide shows how to protect both the kitten and the home by making heights safe and offering safe alternatives.
Cat
Open the guideBeginner35 min
Making your home safe for a free roaming rabbit
A free roaming rabbit explores by chewing and digging. Making the home safe protects the rabbit from real dangers and your furniture from its teeth.
RabbitRodents
Open the guideIntermediate30 min
Make the garden safe against escapes and poisons
A garden seems the safest place and hides the worst dangers: gaps in the fence, toxic plants, slug and rat poisons. Here is how to inspect it zone by zone before leaving the animal loose there.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner25 min
Making electrical cables, sockets and chargers safe
A chewed cable is not just damaged electronics: it is a risk of shock and mouth burns. A few targeted protections remove most of the danger.
DogCatRabbit
Open the guideBeginner35 min
Stopping your pet escaping through the front door
The front door is where most pets escape, almost always in a moment of distraction. Preventing it is a matter of barriers and habits, not luck.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Preventing swallowed objects and foreign bodies at home
Many emergencies come not from poisons but from a swallowed sock, hair tie or thread. Prevention is almost entirely about removing the right things before it happens.
DogCat
Open the guideIntermediate30 min
Make the kitchen safe for a dog or cat
The kitchen packs more hazards than any other room. Here is how to move them out of reach with a zone by zone method, without forgetting any.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Protecting the home from summer heat for dogs and cats
Heatstroke does not only strike in cars or outdoors: a flat shut up in the sun becomes a trap. Here is how to prepare the home before the heatwave arrives.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Keep medicines and cleaning products out of your pet's reach
Many household poisonings start with a dropped pill or an open bottle. A thoughtful tidy of the home removes most of these risks for good.
DogCatAll species
Open the guideIntermediate60 min
Getting the home and the pet ready for fireworks night
What to do three weeks ahead, how to build the refuge in eight steps and the timetable for the night itself, with the volume ladder for sound work.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner45 min
How many litter boxes you need and where to put them
Before talking about behaviour, count the boxes and measure them. Number, size and placement solve a large share of elimination problems.
Cat
Open the guideIntermediate120 min
Making balconies and windows safe for pets
A cat does not fall because it is careless: it falls because it is chasing something. The right mesh, the right fixing, and tilt windows made safe.
CatDog
Open the guideBeginner90 min
Adapting the home for a senior dog or cat
Three days of observation, then ninety minutes of work on floors and heights, with the measurements for ramps, steps and litter trays and a review calendar.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Making your home and balcony plants pet safe
A method to catalogue your home and balcony plants, decide what to remove and what to move up high, with the steps to follow if ingestion is suspected.
DogCatAll species
Open the guideBeginner120 min
Making the home safe before a puppy or kitten arrives
The full pass through the house in ten steps, with a room by room risk table, the measurements that actually matter and a plan for the first seventy two hours in zones.
DogCat