Every day.Every day I'm subjected to "cute" or "funny" videos of pet birds interacting with cats or dogs or ferrets. For the last time internet people:
These.Are.NOT. Cute.
No matter how trained the animals are or how "friendly" the interactions look to humans-and they frequently are not- anyone who's making these is actively endangering their bird- and possibly also their dog/cat for likes.
Cats and dogs are not only predators, they can easily kill a bird through normal play behaviours as well- one hard smack from a cat can be enough to kill or severely injure something like a budgie or a cockatiel.and I'm not even talking about things like play biting here.
And even the friendliest best trained most passive cat might not be able to resist their natural instinct to chase birds. One slip up is enough.
On top of that cat saliva contains bacteria that are toxic to birds.
Please stop. Don't like these, don't reblog these, and most definitely do not make these.
I have a genuine question for ythose of you who, like me, live in an area that has winter and fall and food scarcity during those seasons. Mohawk is very underweight (2 pounds/0.95kg), you can feel his bones, he's been underweight all 3 years we've had him and was underweight when the rescue got him, before he was 2.2lbs(1kg) but lost weight the last time we were at the vet.
In an attempt to help him gain weight we give him a lot of fruits and veggies alongside his pellets and hay. Usually it's cucumbers, strawberries, carrots, broccoli stems and leaves, romaine lettuce, kale, apples and anything else that a quick google search tells me is safe for guinea pigs to eat. However, as mentioned, he lost weight. This may be because of the antibiotic and anti-inflammatory meds he's taking for his paws (he's very sick) but nonetheless it is very concerning and I don't have access to the same amounts of fresh produce I have during the summer.
I give him vitamin C cookies, carrots and broccoli stems right now, but I know he needs more probably. I keep his hay constantly full and he always has pellets, but what do you do for an underweight animal??
Video of him getting nose scritchies in his hut
also, he's started responding to me calling him and tapping on the table when I need him to come to me!