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Castration should be considered if you are keeping a male dog as a pet. It has many advantages and few disadvantages.
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Over 90% of infected wounds in cats result from cat bites sustained during a cat fight. An abscess is a pocket of pus usually under the skin causing a swelling, fever and discomfort.
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Cat scratch disease, or cat scratch fever, is a disease of humans, not of cats. A cat scratch is often associated with the disease, however this is not believed to be the means by which infection occurs. Recent evidence suggests that the major route of infection is by flea bite. The disease is caused by a bacterium-like organism called Bartonella henselae. Bartonella henselae is sensitive to a number of antibiotics.
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Losing weight is often a difficult process and animals, like people, often take weeks or months to shed those unwanted pounds.
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There are many reasons, why an animal may do the same thing again and again. It may be a response to something specific which triggers the behaviour.
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Punishment is the application of a stimulus that decreases the chance that a behaviour will be repeated. It should coincide with the undesirable behaviour, and must be unpleasant enough to deter the cat from repeating that behaviour.
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During exploration and play, kittens (and some adult cats), will chew on a variety of objects. Not only can this lead to damage or destruction of the owner's possessions, but some chewing can be dangerous to the cat.
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Some cats are active at night or awake very early in the morning. Since many owners are out at work or school during the day the cat may spend the daytime hours in rest and relaxation, especially if it is the only pet in the household.
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There are many reasons why cats develop fears, for example there may have been limited exposure to people and other animals when the cat was young.
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Most cats do not need to be actively trained to use a litter tray with an appropriate and appealing substrate in it.