Saturday, August 7, 2010

How To Tell the Mood of Your Pet

So, my really bothered cat(he hasn't gotten his night time dinner yet) told me to write on how to tell the mood of your pet.

Sometimes the mood of your pet is very obvious. If your cat yowls or pees on your stuff when he's not incontinent, that means he's mad.

But sometimes you can't figure out just what your pet is feeling. Did you know a purr can mean the cat you have is either frightened or happy? If it is frightened, it usually hides when people try to pet it. If it is happy, it lets people pet it.

Snakes are moody animals also. If they don't eat, they are sick, shedding, not hungry, breeding, or irritated. If a snake is not shedding and it has gotten used to its surroundings,and it eats on a schedule and has no other non-sexed snake in its cage, it is probably sick and should be brought to the vet. If it gets really fat around the middle and it is a girl snake while its companion is a boy, it is probably breeding. It would probably be best to take the snake to the vet in this instance also.

If snakes breed and are bothered, they can get really angry and bite. That's another way you can tell a snake's mood.

Of course, if a rattler rattles, it is warning you off. A rattler for a pet is crazy, some of you say. In California, it's legal to own a rattler for a pet.

A dog can growl when either happy or irritated. If it is irritated, the growl will be low in the throat, it will stop wagging its tail, and hair will stand up on the back of its neck in an extreme instance.

A happy dog will have a less throaty growl, and will wag its tail. I have a dog named Diamond. She uses this body language while she growls all the time. She loves being petted.

Have fun using this knowledge.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Simple Questionsand Answers About Pets

The snake is here telling me that it's his turn to pick the daily topic. He picked the topic of simple questions and answers about pets.

Q: Should I help my snake shed?
A: Try not to. If you help a lot, it won't figure out how to do it by itself. On some occasions, though, you have to help a snake shed.

Q: Can you put a live animal underneath a microscope to see little features on it invisible to the human eye?
A: I have actually done it. I put a fish between two slide glasses. I put it underneath a microscope and could see the blood going through veins in the fish's tail. It was awesome. And for those of you who are wondering, yes, the fish was okay after.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Some Really Interesting Questions I've Been Asked About Animals - - Answered

Truffles thinks she wants to have some pet questions answered today, so I am going to do that.

Q: Can snakes eat spiders?
A: They can,and will if they are hungry, but things such as minnows and rodents have lot more nutritional value for a snake.

Q: Can dogs have a four foot long tongue?
A: No, they can't.

Q: Can snakes eat other pets?
A: They can, and will, as long as the snake is hungry and has big enough jaws to eat it. Remember, snake jaws unhinge, and this makes more room for the snake to grasp and swallow something.