Homemade Rabbit Litter Options.

FLEA DIP making a homemade flea dip for cats and dogz Without buying expensive petstore stuff?>>>>

What I would do is buy a spot-on treatment like Frontline Plus for all the cats and dogs in the household. Three treatments (3 one month doses) works best because the flea eggs can survive in the environment for a couple months, and may re-infest the animals. This is the most efficient way, because it is easy and will work. It can be more expensive to keep trying all different things that don't work and then having your pets need vet bills due to skin infections, tapeworms, and anemia due to fleas. Just a note: dog flea shampoos are not usually safe for cats!

A home treatment to try includes:
1.) Dish detergent as a bath (do it tail to head to chase all the fleas to the head, leaving them exposed to your ruthless vengence!) Note: not good for coat and may not kill fleas, it just makes them less likely to jump around, so you can remove them with a flea comb. Or you can retry the Hartz bath and leave it on at least 10 minutes, and using the flea comb afterwards.
2.) Vaccuum the heck out of everything every day for 3 months then setting your vaccuum bag in the hot sun or freezer to kill the fleas/eggs. Wash everything possible. Limit pet's living area to limit the flea's living area.
3.) Using flea comb daily on your pets (don't forget pet rabbits, ferrets, etc.
4.) Try diatomacious earth from a garden store. You can spread the dust all over your pet's bedding and living areas and it kills fleas by destroying their outer coating and cutting them to shreds! The dust is very irritating to lungs, so wear a mask, then wait a day or two and vaccuum it up. It kills all types of bugs-bonus! and its natural-extra bonus! Use some around the yard where your pets hang out to kill fleas outside. Remember to repeat weekly or so for 3 months to kill hatching eggs. Also, if your dogs have gone for a car ride, treat your cars and whomever's house they've gone to.

Fleas do not like garlic, so adding a little to your pet's diet or getting a pet food with it as an ingredient may help repel them. Hope this helps!

NOTE: DO NOT USE ADVANTIX FLEA DROPS-EXTREMELY TOXIC TO CATS. IT CANNOT BE IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD AS A CAT...EVEN IF YOU JUST USE IT ON THE DOGS!

Can rabbits be outside in the cold?

A little on the HOUSE Rabbit Option.

Our rabbit lives in the house all the time, and has free access to the garden when he wants it. He is extremely clean using a cat litter tray with old towel in it (A lot less messy than litter or saw dust). He runs about like a loon occasionally and usually sits with us on the sofa nudging the hand he wants to stroke his ears!

I have had cats and dogs in the past (And various small animals) but the House Rabbit is the best yet. No mess, no walkies, no noise in the night. Fab.

As others have said... if you bring him in be careful he doesn't get too hot. But Ours sleeps in his run (Converted space under a coffee table in the conservatory, and he is very happy there in temps down to 5deg. Any lower than that and we cover the box with a blanket (And put his heater on... damn he is spoilt!). He has towels and bits of old fleece in the box that he snuggles in and he's very particular about what goes where. Whenever we clean it out he watches and then goes in and throws stuff around to where he wants it.

ALSO slightly off subject... get one of those balls that comes out of a toy dispenser and put sunflower seeds in it with a hole cut in one end. They soon learn to chase it around the room 'winning' a few seeds now and then for their trouble.

If you want to keep him warm and have no money... just try an old cardboard box indoors full of shredded paper from the office or old torn up newspapers. They love to dig about in it and ours absolutely adores ripping strips off the box and eating it. Yes this is harmless... they chew and eat wood in the wild to control their teeth length.

Give a rabbit something to chew and he will not chew your house! Get boy rabbits done or they will spray! (Pew!) Keep them away from Cables or you may end up with a cooked bunny. Single rabbits will be more sociable with YOU than a rabbit that has a bunny pal. But if you have no time for him... get him a friend. Beware mixed sex or you'll have a house full of the perishers.

What newspapers are safe for rabbits and guinea pigs?

Non-colored newspaper is fine to use for pigs and rabbits. Do NOT use any paper with colored ink like is found in ads or pictures; the colored ink is toxic, especially to the pigs, if they chew on the colored pages. I recommend placing the newspaper on the bottom and then sprinkling some pine shavings over top of the paper. It makes cleaning up a snap because the whole thing rolls right up!

Since you mentioned that you're moving them indoors (I assume from outside), use caution when bringing them in. Make sure they are not too close to an AC vent, window, or fan. If it has been really hot outside, consider placing a beach towel or blanket partially over their cage until they get used to the cooler air. Pigs tend to be sensitive to temperature changes, especially drastic ones.

Also fyi, if you are using wood shavings, make certain you are using pine. Many people are tempted to use cedar becase it masks some of the odor, but it can cause cancer in rodents!! No one told me this until I had to have a cancerous leasion removed from one of my male pigs.

I hope this helps and good luck!

Can fly spray for horses be used safely for rabbits?

I have a rabbit living in an outdoor hutch, and though he gets his cage cleaned 1-2 times a week, flies & such still seem to like to bug him (no pun intended). He is litter box trained and I try to keep his cage as clean as possible, but so long as there's a single pellet lying around it seems the flies just don't relent.

He has developed some minor scabs on his ears that I assume are due to itching/irritation from insects. My question is, would it be a safe option to spray diluted fly spray (formulated for horses) around his hutch/a little on his ears? Or is this too risky? If so, what are some safe fly-repellents to use in close proximity w/ a rabbit? Thank you for any answers!

Are there any viable alternatives to dry cat food in my situation?

I own a beautiful young male moggy. He's about six months now. We live in Brazil, where non-purebred cats are held as kind of secondary, self-catering, just-feed-once-a-week pet. While most of my fellow moggy owners will often settle for the most economic and practical options - that is, no regular vet care, poor quality food, even poorer quality litter, and so on -, I truly wish to give my baby the best care available.
I have been reading on American and English sites about cat food brands and stumbled upon the question of dry food being highly unhealthy, which sounds very plausible to me. The problem is, he's still a kitten, and I would rather refrain from feeding him adult cat food until he's one year old. And I can only find canned food for fully grown, adult cats. There are also two options of food pouches, Royal Canin and Whiskas, which are absurdly expensive - it would be impossible for me to buy the amount it would take to feed him adequately, even if I were to opt for Whiskas.
Here in Brazil, brands such as Whiskas and Cat Chow are considered medium to good choices, quite expensive but decent, while Royal Canin and Science Diet are held as high-quality, premium brands - a luxury for the few who can afford it. That said, the poorer options are not even worth mentioning. In this scenario, I feel truly lost about what is good and what is not, and importing my cat's food is not a possibility.
Also, it's worth saying that I do not really trust chicken meat here in Brazil, given it's packed with hormones and other strange, very probably toxic stuff - nor fish meat, for that matter.
Are there any viable alternatives to dry cat food in this situation?
Is there a homemade diet that would meet and satisfy my kitten's nutritional needs?
Is there anything I can do to counter the negative effects of dry food?
Any help is appreciated.