Expert Pet Care Tips for a Happy, Healthy Pet

The Labrador is the dog everybody pictures when they picture a fat dog, and it is the one breed with a famous obesity gene to explain it. So here is the awkward part. In the largest study of its kind, run across more than 22,000 dogs in British vet clinics, the Beagle and the Golden Retriever both turned out more likely to be overweight than the Labrador. The gene is real, it is measurable, and i …

There is a particular kind of guilt that comes with owning a good doer. Everybody else at the agistment is feeding hard to keep condition on. You are rationing hay, muzzling at spring, and still your pony looks like it has been inflated overnight. It feels like you are doing something wrong. You are not. You are managing a body that was built by two and a half thousand years of scarcity, and then …

Ask a stockman how many times he rewarded his young Kelpie in this morning's session and the honest answer is somewhere north of a hundred. Ask a suburban Border Collie owner doing shaping work at home and the number is not much lower. Now hold that against the arithmetic every vet uses, which says a treat budget for a dog this size is roughly a hundred calories a day, and you can see the problem. …

Every Australian dog owner has had the moment. You are at the barbecue, the snags are on, and there is a set of very persuasive eyes staring up at you. So here is the list nobody writes for Australians: 40 foods you will actually find in an Aussie kitchen, sorted into green, amber and red, against the advice of RSPCA Australia and the Animal Poisons Helpline. Corn cobs are not toxic, they are th …

Blog › Dog Christmas Outfits ? Updated 4 August 2026 ⏰ 8 min read ✅ Reviewed against RSPCA Australia guidance A full stocking carries all of the festive spirit and none of the overheating risk of a costume. Huds and Toke Cat & Dog Christmas Stocking. Search "dog Christmas costume" and almost everything you find was written for a Northern Hemisphere Christmas, in the middle of a Northern …