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Cage Accessory Guide for Small Pets
Small animal pets are active and curious. Therefore, their home needs to contain fun cage accessories and toys. To stimulate your pet's interest and enliven his curiosity, accessories and toys should be carefully chosen.
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Chew Toy Buyer's Guide: Rodents & Rabbits
Providing your rabbit or small rodent with appropriate chew toys will help minimize costly dental problems in the future.
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Chichilla Food Comparison Chart
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Small Pet Guide: How to Choose the Healthiest
Before welcoming a new, furry friend to your home, we recommend that you read extensively to become familiar with your prospective pet's personality traits and care needs.
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Small Pet Selection Guide: Which One for Me?
The following table provides important information on the life span, weight, reproduction, and recommended environmental temperature for various small animals often kept as pets.
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Treats for Small Pets: Buyer's Guide
Small pet treats can prove invaluable as training motivators or as rewards to positively reinforce good behavior. They are also a fun, inexpensive way to show your rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, rat, mouse, chinchilla, or sugar glider.
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Cage Cleaning Schedule for Small Pets
A clean, dry, hospitable home is paramount to your small pet's health. Be sure your fuzzy friend has a spacious, secure, ventilated, chew-proof home containing the basics.
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Cage Cleaning Tips for Small Pets
Most animals are fanatic about the cleanliness and organization of their surroundings.
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Chinchilla
Profile: Learn more about the feeding habits, housing needs, diseases, and behavior of the Chinchilla.
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Chinchilla Facts
Chinchillas are special animals
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Chinchillas: Is One Right For You?
Here are some quick facts to help you decide if this is really the pet of choice for you.
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Coprophagy: Why Chinchillas Eat Their Droppings
Believe it or not, there is a good reason for this unappetizing behavior.
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Dental Care In-Depth: All Small Pets
The dental health of your small pet is much more important than many people realize.
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Dental Health Month for Small Pets: February
As part of National Pet Dental Health Month, the "Pets Need Dental Care, TooTM" program will challenge veterinarians and their clients to schedule regular dental appointments for their pets and establish a home dental care routine.
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Exercise Tips by Small Pet Species
Exercising your small pet is easy and much more advanced than an old, squeaky wheel.
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Eye Health: 10 Tips for Small Pets
To best maintain your small pet's eye health, look daily for these tell-tale signs of unhealthy eyes:
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First Aid Kits for Small Pets: What to Include
Since you never know when an accident will happen, keeping a pet emergency kit at your home is a good idea.
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Fun Facts: Chinchilla
A chinchilla has approximately 90 hairs per hair follicle; humans have 1-2 hairs per follicle.
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Habitat Tips for Chinchillas
Your chinchilla requires a clean, dry, hospitable home to stay happy and healthy.
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Hideaways for Small Pets, the Importance of
Whether your small pet prefers burrowing deep into bedding, holing up inside a hutch, or taking cover in a large toy, he hides for security and solace.
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Introducing Drs. Foster & Smith
Signature Series Premium Small Pet Foods
When your pet's health matters most, serve the veterinarian-formulated food from the name you trust the most! Drs. Foster & Smith is pleased to introduce our new Signature Series Premium Small Pet Foods for rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamster
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New Small Pet? How to Get Ready
To help you get off to a good start, here are some recommendations on what to do before you pick up your new pet, and care tips for the first month home.
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Nutrition for Small Pets: Timothy Hay is Essential
Dried from a natural, perennial grass, timothy hay is inexpensive and healthy. It aids digestion and helps wear down the constantly growing teeth of rabbits and true herbivores, such as chinchillas and guinea pigs.
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Nutrition Requirements for Small Pets by Species
You have to carefully choose what you feed your small pet each day, just like how you have to be careful to eat a balanced diet yourself. Here we talk about what food rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs, and other small pets need to eat every day.
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Odor Control Tips for Rabbits & Rodents
In captivity, animals need help to maintain a hygienic, healthy environment. The leading cause of odor is the buildup of urine and fecal matter in the cage.
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Sexing Your Small Pet
Correctly sexing small pets is more important than you know. If small pets are incorrectly sexed, you could end up with a surprise pregnancy. While this may sound somewhat fun, the truth is that you would then need to determine what to do with them.
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Small Pet Emergencies: When to Call Your Vet
Small pets, with their evolutionary history of being prey animals, will often mask signs of illness. By the time you notice something is wrong, the condition could be very severe.
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Stimulate Your Small Pet, How to
Exercise is important for your small pet's overall health. Here are some fun exercise ideas. Learn more >
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Travel Tips for Small Pets
Whether by foot or by car, traveling with your small pet can be fun, safe, and easy if you pack smart. The selection of small pet carriers and pouches grows every year, making travel with your small pet more comfortable than ever.
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