3904 West Eisenhower Blvd.

Loveland, CO 80537

Phone:  (970) 635-1850

Fax:  (775) 587-9173

Email: help@aspenwing.com

General Pet Care

General Care Considerations

Annual examinations of your birds and other exotic pets helps ensure their health.  It also keeps you informed of updated information of your pets care and feeding.

Use safe solid exercise wheels for hamsters and gerbils.   The open wire wheels cause leg injuries.

Keeping your cat inside is safer for the cat and the wildlife.

Guinea Pigs: Be sure to feed a high quality pig pellet such as oxbow cavie cuisine.  Do not use a grain mix, this may lead to Vitamin C deficiency and obesity.

Having a hard time getting your bird to eat its veggies?... Try a kabob.  Stack veggies such as snow peas, yam slices, brussel sprouts, squash slices and leaves of kale.  Now you have a  toy that's a nutritious treat!  You can also make a kabob-toy by adding pasta wheels, junk mail or wood blocks.

Note wing trims are not guaranteed to prevent the bird from flying. This is especially true for small parakeets.  Too often stories come in involving a bird flying from the owner just after a wing clip.  Often these birds are never found once they get outside.

Provide shelter and fresh water for your pets throughout the cold winter months

 

Poisonous Plants

A great link for safe plant information;http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/

Safe Gardening

Wendy C. Brooks, DVM, DABVP
Mar Vista Animal Medical Center

ARE ANY OF THE PLANTS IN YOUR YARD POISONOUS TO YOUR PETS?

Poisonous plants can mean disaster for the family pet. Check this link to: The Cornell University Toxic Plant Index. All pet owners should bookmark this site, which has photographs of plants that are poisonous to pets.

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