People often write to us about their pets that they have adopted from us to let us know how they are getting on.

We have also been given great and helpful hints and tips on all kinds of things.

Here are a few handy hints we would like to share with you.

 

If you would like to tell us your handy hints and tips just drop us a line at kathy@petrehome.org

 

Thank you

 

 

 

Kath A -  Says that giving her cats Greek yogurt for breakfast has made their fur so silky and shiny and it sure seems to have worked for Sofi & Lucy.

 

 

 

 

Spring will be here soon and the ticks will soon be showing their heads.

Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets.

Give it a try it really works!

This is great because it works in those places where it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers:

 

Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton wool ball.  Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20).  The tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.

It is much less traumatic for the patient and easier for you.

 

Unless someone is allergic to soap I can't see that this would be damaging in anyway.  Please pass on.  Everyone needs this helpful hint and it's good enough to pass on.