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.

How To Choose Whether or not To Declaw a Cat

Many of us with cats have wondered whether or not to declaw a cat. Milo my shorthair cat wanted meto give advice on this subjectbecause he believes anything having to do with cats is of utmost importance.

Here is the facts of what the vet does when he declaws a cat:
It's very simple. In order to declaw a cat, he has to remove the first joints of the cat's paws. Then the claws are gone, and can grow back no more.

You should ask yourself whether or not you want your cat to go through this surgery. It would be like the doctor you go to cutting off the half tops of all your digits.

Some people declaw cats because they want a nice looking house or couch - - no claw marks in the drape or couch, etc.

For some people they are lucky if they declaw their cats. Their house does stay nice because it has no claw marks.

Others aren't so lucky. Some cats have easily bothered paws after declawing and havetheir paws hurt because of scar tissue when they go in their litter boxes. Therefore, they use everything but their litter boxes to eliminate on.

Now, if you have a cat that scratches your legs or other body parts very badly, it might be good to declaw your cat. Or you can return it and get another, nicer cat.

Go ahead and choose whether or not to declaw, since you now have all the information you need to make a decision.