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Pet Care

5 Lies Told By Dog Food Makers

Author Byaqilrl

In this fast moving world, everyone needs to be smart and intelligent in order to run their business and reach the heights of success. Even the marketing strategies need to be smart enough so as to attract the potential buyers.

Dogs are considered as the best friend of humans and they do require much attention and care as humans do. When it comes to feeding your dog, you are very much particular of the diet they take and check the ingredient label carefully before making purchase.

Many pet food manufacturers fool us with the labeling and the ingredients and force us to continue with their product. The shocking truth about the dried, tinned and processed pet food is that it can harm your pet and even make them serious or fatal.

Here we are going to know about the possible secrets pet manufacturers try to squeeze past and you may not even notice that.

Lies Told By Dog Food Makers

1. Made With Human Grade Ingredients

Pet food manufacturers often use the term ” made with human grade ingredients”, but the finished product is NOT human grade at all. The ingredients used in making the product is basically fit for the humans to consume it, but when it reaches the pet food plant, it gets processed according to the regulations of feed grade product in a way that it is no more in a position to be consumed by humans and cannot be called as “human grade” any longer.

2. Organic

The word organic is another marketing strategy used in order to attract the customers, but the fact is that there is no formal definition of organic pet food. Organic means food that is made without the use of chemicals. Organic food of pets is based on humans standards, but these human standards may not apply to pets as well. These are all eye catching claims made to market the product.

3. Holistic

Holistic is another term which is mentioned on the dog food labels in order to attract the dog parents and this works in their favor. There is no legal requirement for something to be called as holistic on pet food products.

4. First Ingredient

The first ingredient which is mentioned on the pet food label may not necessarily be the primary ingredient. If the first ingredient mentioned is 75 percent meat, then this does not mean it is true. The food needs to be dried and processed as a result the meat content will end up to 10 percent.

5. Made With

Don’t get fooled if the pet food label reads, ‘made with’ so and so, this means only three percent of that content is present in the food. This can be organic meat, real meat or anything else.

5 Lies Told By Dog Food Makers

Pet Care

Avoid Fleas And Ticks With This Amazing Remedy

Author Byaqilrl

Fleas and ticks are unwelcome guests in many houses and dealing with these little blood suckers is an inevitable part of pet ownership. Every pet owner knows how annoying it would be dealing with them.

These tiny insects can easily multiply in numbers and easily infect your pet from head to paw. These will not only cause irritation, but it leads the pets to experience inflammation and even open sores with skin sensitivities or flea and tick allergies.

Sever infestation of these pests can even lead to fur loss and patchy coats as well as anemia. Fleas and ticks can also transmit diseases not only for the pets they bit even for the humans too.

The exact disease can vary depending upon the species of flea and the common transmitted include sleeping sickness, tungiasis, typhus, lyme disease, rocky mounted spotty fever, tapeworms and different types of plague.

However, there are many treatments to keep these tiny blood suckers at bay such as flea and tick collars, topical solutions, sprays but they are highly poisonous and dangerous to use it on your pets.

The highly toxic chemicals in the sprays will cause severe health problems in pets which include organ failure, nerve damage, endocrine disruption and even cancer too.

So, do we find any alternative rather than chemical filled sprays or medications for pets to get relief from these tiny pests? Yes, it is always better to opt for natural solution that provides no side effects.

Here are some natural remedies to treat fleas and ticks.

Natural Remedies For Fleas And Ticks

Fleas and ticks can easily spread and can cause real damage in very short time. For instance, a flea can live more than 18 months and during that time, a female flea can lay more than 5000 eggs.

The below is one of the effective remedy which is made of three powerful ingredients that helps to prevents pests completely.

Herbal Flea And Tick Powder

Required Ingredients

  • 1 cup of food grade diatomaceous earth
  • ½ cup of Neem powder
  • ½ cup of Yarrow powder

Directions To Use

  • Mix all ingredients in a container with shaker top. And apply this powder on your pet dry fur and brush it in to ensure that it comes in contact with the skin of your pet.
  • Avoid putting this powder near the ears, mouth and face of your pet, because it acts as an irritant especially at these places of your pet.
  • You need to do this at least 3-4 times in a week to prevent the fleas completely.
  • You can also sprinkle little amount of this mixture on bed of your pet and carpet area and leave for few hours, then simply vacuum it.

Benefits Of Ingredients Used In This Amazing Remedy

  • Diatomaceous Earth

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This is a sedimentary mineral rock derived from the remains of diatom, ocean single cell algae. Diatomaceous earth exactly looks like a talc powder with white color and contains fossilized minerals. The active ingredient called silica grains in this powder is harmful to insects and effective in preventing them.

  • Neem Powder

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From ancient years, neem has its own special place especially in ayurveda to treat many types of skin and health issues. This is also used as an effective herbal repellent for fleas, insects, lice, mites, ants and mosquitoes.

Neem contains a compound called salannin which acts exactly as an insect repellent and even helpful for dry and itchy skin. Neem also contains anti bacterial properties that can help prevent any infections from flea and tick bites.

  • Yarrow Powder

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Yarrow powder is known for its anti bacterial and anti inflammatory properties and even for pain relieving properties. This herb is effective in preventing fleas and ticks easily and even soothes the irritated skin caused by bites of flea and ticks.

Other Alternatives For Preventing Flea And Ticks

You can even use essential oils like lemon essential oil, clove oil, lemon grass oil and cinnamon oil to prevent blood sucking insects as they posses anti inflammatory and anti bacterial properties.

All these oils can also acts as wonderful insect repellents without any side effects, you just need to mix any of the above essential oil with 3-4 parts of water and spray it on your pet on regular basis to prevent the pests completely.

Avoid fleas and ticks with this amazing remedy

Pet Care

Home Remedies For Fleas On Cats

Author Byaqilrl

Fleas are small species that feed on the blood of mammals and birds and most commonly seen on cats and dogs. Well, owners of cat and dogs know how frustrating and irritating it can be sometimes handling with them.

Do you know that there are more than 200 species of fleas in the world and they can jump higher than any other insect? It can jump 295 feet across and 165 feet high.

Fleas on cats can cause lot of discomfort by showing symptoms like hair loss, scratching, excessive grooming, red skin lesions, lethargy, muscle loss, red spots on your cats bedding, and reddish, brown or black insects in cat’s fur.

Just a single flea can lead to hundreds within short time. If you don’t provide proper treatment for your cat it can become anemic and weak.

If you find this problem on your cats, here we are with best home remedies to get rid of them completely on your pets.

Home Remedies For Fleas On Cats:

1. Use Flea Comb For Your Cat:

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Flea comb comes in handy and the small teeth of this comb will help to remove flea from the hair of your cat.

What You Need To Do:

  • Just comb your cat everyday with flea comb at least once in a day or each time your cat comes in from outdoors to prevent infestations.
  • Place flea comb in the solution of mild lemon scented dish soap with a cup of warm water and comb your cat.
  • Check the comb after each stroke and remove egg, larva by dipping the comb in water.
  • When the comb do not catches any fleas then bath your cat thoroughly. Repeat this process twice in a day to remove fleas completely.

2. Apple Cider Vinegar:

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Apple cider vinegar is not only effective in treating all types of skin and health issues in humans, but it is also helpful in  preventing fleas from your cat easily. It doesn’t kill the fleas on your pet, but it makes them to jump off from your pet easily.

What You Need To Do:

  • You just need to mix equal parts of apple cider vinegar with water. Pour this mixture in a spray bottle and spray this on your pet every day.
  • You can even add few drops of any essential oil to this mixture to work more effectively.
  • You can also spray this solution on wooden floors, furniture’s, carpets and other places where you may suspect fleas. Do it regularly to prevent them completely.

3. Dish Soap:

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Liquid dish soap is effective in killing fleas on your cat and is particularly good for kittens.

What You Need To Do:

  • Take a bath tub and fill it with warm water by adding little amount of dish soap. Help your cat to sit in the bath tub for 10-15 minutes.
  • The fleas will simply fall off from the cat when you rinse them with soapy solution.
  • Repeat this twice or thrice in a week to prevent them completely.

4. Flea Collar:

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Flea collar is another effective way to protect your cat from these tiny insects. You can get two types of flea collars in the market, one helps to kill fleas and the other is used to release a substance that seeps through the fatty layers of the cat skin and make them fall off easily.

What You Need To Do:

  • All you need to do is put flea collar around your cats neck and if you don’t want to use chemical one then make a natural version.
  • For this, you want a nylon or cotton pet collar. Pour little amount of vodka mixed with one drop of geranium essential oil and let it dry.
  • Refresh the collar weekly, cut the collar into four pieces and place them under your pet’s bed to get rid of fleas in bedding as well.

5. Lemon:

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The acidic nature and citric acid in lemon helps to kill fleas easily. It helps to get rid of flying fleas and avoid the eggs that have been laid on your pet.

What You Need To Do:

  • Cut 2 lemons into slices and keep them in a pan of water.
  • Boil this water for few minutes and turn off the heat and let it steep overnight.
  • Strain the solution in the morning and pour it in spray bottle.
  • Spray this solution on your pet and comb thoroughly using a flea comb.
  • Repeat it as much as necessary.
  • You can also add one cup of lemon juice for washing your cats bedding to prevent any fleas that are still left over.

Home Remedies For Fleas On Cats

 

Pet Care

How to Treat Cats with Cystitis

Author Byaqilrl

Cystitis most habitually happens as a part of a collection of bladder and urinary problems, which is commonly called as (FUS) feline urological syndrome or (FLUTD) feline lower urinary tract disease.

Generally cystitis is caused because of the infection or irritation, which makes cat’s bladder inflamed and it also affects urinary tract. The attacks of cystitis along with the inflammation of the urinary tract can possibly cause tenderness of lower abdomen in cats. If the cat’s urine is alkaline, then it is much easier for urinary crystals to form in the both male and female cats.

There is a common form of cystitis that occurs in male and female cats. This disease affects the urinary bladder of cat’s which results in the production of tiny crystals as well as bloody urine. Some cat’s frequently urinates when compared to the normal cats.

Cats are more prone to developing cystitis when compared to dogs. Usually this is only because of their shorter urethra that makes it easier for the harmful bacteria to come up from the perineum into the bladder.

What are the clinical sings of cystitis?

All the types of cystitis have similar clinical signs, not all this clinical signs are essentially observed in every case of cat’s cystitis. The following are clinical signs of cystitis.

  • Bloody urine
  • Repeated visits to the litter tray
  • Passing very small amounts of urine on the litter tray
  • Urination in unsuitable places
  • Painful urination
  • Some cats are even not capable to pass urine.

Home Remedies for cats with Cystitis

The following are the home remedies for treating cats with Cystitis:

Apple Cider Vinegar

How to Treat Cats with Cystitis

For bladder health of animals and people apple cider vinegar has been widely used for generations. Using apple cider vinegar daily will result in quick resolve of urinary bladder in cats and also it will reduce the inflammation.

Whenever we are suing apple cider vinegar for health issues in animals and peoples, we should keep in mind that we use raw and organic apple cider vinegar.

Remedy:

  1. Take a small mixing bowl
  2. Add ¼ teaspoon of raw and organic apple cider vinegar
  3. Add ¾ teaspoon of water and mix this well
  4. After that take a syringe and fill this into it.
  5. Now inject this into your cat’s body with syringe.
  6. For good results do this same process 2-3 times in a day.

Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil is extremely nutritious and healing oil for both animals and people. As coconut oil is anti-inflammatory, it is easily concealed in the food and given to your cat. You can also put this oil pea sized amount onto your cat’s paw to lick off.

Remedy:

  1. Take fresh and organic coconut oil
  2. Add this oil onto your cat’s paw
  3. You can also add this oil in your cat’s food or directly add coconut oil into the mouth of your cat.
  4. For good results do the same at least 3 times in a day.

Turmeric

Turmeric is natural ingredient that has the natural properties of anti-inflammatory. Turmeric powder can be easily found in the spice section of your local grocery store or health food store.

Remedy:

  1. Take turmeric powder
  2. Mix 1/8 teaspoon of turmeric powder in your cat’s food.
  3. Now give this turmeric mixed food to your cat
  4. For good results do the same process twice a day.

Corn Silk

Corn silk is a mild tasting tincture and natural herb which can be easily mixed into food of your cat and even you can give this tincture with the help of syringe.  Corn silk tincture works really well for urinary bladder problems.

Remedy:

  1. Take a bowl add ¼  teaspoon of corn silk tincture
  2. Now add ¾ teaspoon of water into it and stir well.
  3. Take a syringe and fill this mixture in syringe
  4. Inject this into your cat’s body.
  5. You can also add this mixture to your cat’s food.

Parsley

Parsley is well-known for its remedial effect to the urinary bladder. You can use parsley either in the form of tea or it can be added into the food. Parsley is enormous and effective natural herb. The following is the remedy for treating cats with cystitis by parsley.

Remedy:

  1. Take a bowl add water one cup of water
  2. Boil the water and add 1 teaspoon of parsley
  3. Steep this for at least 15 minutes
  4. Now you have to strain out the herb
  5. After straining it, now you give tea to your cat
  6. If your cat does not drink it, then you can also add this to your cat’s food.

How Cystitis is diagnosed?

As you already read the clinical signs of cystitis. To know exactly which type of cystitis is distressing your cat, a general physical inspection of your cat is needed and further you may have to do some tests, such as urine analysis, blood test that will give you the exact reason.

Treatment

The treatment of cystitis generally consists of pain relief, relaxation of the cramped bladder muscle and glucosamine’s that seems to relieve the sore inside the layer of your cat’s urinary bladder.  One should encourage their cats to drink water with small amounts of somewhat like, tuna.

In some cases, if the dilemma has been ignored for a little while in your cat’s, then intensive care may become compulsory for few days and unfortunately not all cats with this condition manage and come out of this severe condition.