Lovely Pet

Archive for July, 2010

1. First, identify your turtle by:

Finding out the gender of your turtles. Male turtles have much longer claws on front paws. The Cloaca on female turtles is closer to the shell than the male.

2. Prepare a comfortable place to live

We must prepare a place to live that is suitable with the needs of the turtles. If you have small turtles, then it is okay to put them in small place, but if your turtles are big, give them enough space by putting them in a place that is quite large. It is better for you to place them in a place that enables them to move freely so that the growth will be faster. The environment of the living place should also consist of water and land area. To maintain the cleanliness of the place where your turtles live, it is better for you to clean the place every other day. This must be done because turtles live in water, eat in the water and throw their waste in the water, then if the water in the aquarium is not clean, it will affect their health.

3. Foods that support growth

Just like caring for other pets, food is also essential to grow turtles. You can get food for your turtles in pet shops or places that sell food for fish.

4. Positive treatment

Remember, turtles are living creatures. If you want to make them as your pet, treat them gently.

Sunbath your turtles for a few hours a day in because it will help the growth of their shell, feed them every day and do not forget to clean their aquarium.

Pet hamster is actually a high reproductive rate. After the age of 3 months, female hamsters can give birth when united with a male hamster. Therefore, if you have male and female hamsters are put together in a cage, you should get ready to have a baby hamster, not just one, but could some baby hamster once. Here are tips on caring for baby hamsters:

Do not handle the new-born baby hamsters, because hamsters that had held the baby could be eaten by its mother human. This is due to a hamster is a unique way to protect children is by eating her own child. If you want to move the baby hamsters, use a spoon to lift it.

Do not separate the parent hamster with her babies because the baby hamsters need milk from its mother for about 2-3 weeks.

When the parent is in the lactating guinea-pig, not too often view the parent because the parent hamster will feel disturbed, resulting in disruption of breastfeeding a baby hamster is discontinuous.

Give powder paper or fabric to a baby hamster is not cold. During the two weeks since the birth of a baby hamster, do not clean the cage. If you want to feed, just place it and do not look at your hamster could get him distracted.