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Below are some awesome articles to help you adopt and care for a horse, rabbit, bird, guinea pig, hamster, turtle, pig, or other pet.
- Why there is a Fee For Adoption
- Giving Pets as Gifts
- How to Avoid Picking the Wrong Pet
- Adopt a Senior Pet
- 10 Reasons Pets Are Good For Kids
- Renting with pets
- 9 Ideas to Make Pet Costs Less Frightening
- Most Popular Pet Names
- 250+ Fun Pet Names
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Birds
- How to Adopt a Bird like a Parrot
- What is Wrong with the Step-Up Command for Parrots
- What To Do If Your Flighted Parrot Escapes
Happy new year from all of us at Adopt-a-Pet.com! We just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a peaceful and joyful year! Let’s renew our commitment to helping animals in need. Let’s reinspire each other and save more lives together. Let’s resolve to carry out our mission and make this a wonderful new year for 
Big parties, crowds, fireworks, and… fun? New pet owners often don’t realize that the noise and festivities that often accompany New Year’s Eve – even if you’re staying home and watching them on TV – aren’t much fun for most pets! My dog, like many dogs, is terrified of fireworks. He doesn’t know the ones exploding on the surround sound system aren’t the real thing lighting up the corner of our living room. He barks at dogs barking on the TV too – I like to think he’s very “sound aware” but my other pets look at him like, “Dude, its on TV.” When the fireworks and happy screaming people are on TV, obviously its easy enough to turn the volume down. But what can you do if you or a close neighbor are having a New Year’s Eve party with noisemakers and revelry? Here is our NYE countdown of tips to help your pets enjoy Auld Lang Syne safely:
Deck the halls with boughs of…rescued Dachshunds?! Don’t we wish! Perhaps the only thing better than adopting one dog is adopting two, and this bonded pair is no exception to the double-the-love-cuteness! Cassidy and Colby are super sweet senior brothers saved in the nick of time by Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, an entirely senior-focused rescue group located in San Francisco, CA. These Doxies are incredibly affectionate and spry, love being the center of attention, and love each other! They’re known to cuddle, groom one another, and play like pups. Cassidy and Colby are also great with other dogs and kids, and they’re so adorable that they’re the stars of the latest 
This seemed like an appropriate post for the Boxing Day holiday! What do cats like more than a cardboard box? How about multiple cardboard boxes attached together with cutouts creating tunnels and multilevel fun! We love what this awesome cat-loving owner did for his cat Rufus, to make up for having just gone through a painful ear infection. We were inspired to make a mini cardboard box cat castle for our foster cats holiday present, and though it wasn’t worthy of millions of views on YouTube like Rufus’ video received (you can watch the video below) it was a huge hit in our catio! What a great way to recycle large gift boxes or those inevitably huge online shopping boxes that arrive with the ordered item hidden inside of reams of packing paper. If you don’t have any boxes readily available, often a search of your local Craigslist can turn up people cheaply selling or giving away moving boxes, often just after the 1st or the 15th of the month, the most common moving dates. Please make sure your boxes weren’t used for anything that might not be good for your cat, and use nontoxic glue or tape to attach them together. The cardboard box cat castle configurations — and fun — are almost endless! Watch the Rufus Tower video below to see what we mean.
Simon’s cat is adorably troublesome in his Santa Claws video climbing the Christmas tree, knocking the ornaments off one by one, and… well, I won’t spoil the whole thing so you can watch it below! But for non-animated real-life cats and other pets, holiday decorations can pose a real hazard, not just a decorating frustration. Vets report that the most emergency room visits, is from pets eating people food, is tinsel, ribbons, or other wrapping or decorating items. Especially tinsel and ribbons can form blockages that require complicated emergency surgery to save the pets life! There are plenty of pet-safe ways to make your holiday home festive and bright. If you have a dog, cat, or other pet that likes to chew, the safest thing is to keep all ornamentation and lighting completely out of reach — or the pet out of the room! Just like kitten, puppy or child proofing your home year-round, the holidays are a time when pet owners and families with pets visiting can avoid an expensive or tragic vet visit with a little planning and common sense. Now, enough with the serious warnings, and enjoy Simon’s cat antics in his silly little cartoon video!
We all love adorable animals, whether they’re our own pets or the cute little rabbits and squirrels that are scurrying around our neighborhoods. But what happens when those cute critters start destroying your yard? Winter is prime time for a variety of animals to be digging through your trash or tearing up your shrubs. A general misconception is that most critters hibernate during the winter. However squirrels, rabbits, skunks, possums, and deer (among others!) are active all winter long. Animals can be even more destructive in the winter because food is scarce and they’re more desperate to find it. So what can you do? You don’t want to hurt the poor things! You just want them to leave your yard alone! Here are some humane ways you can stop the destruction: