Lifestyle

We fill animal shelters with the inconvenient, messy, costly, tiring, worrying and wonderful. They wait there for the one choosing a lifestyle, not a pet.

Real Estate hunting doesn’t have to be frustrating or intimidating. Call me, Wiggles LaFollett, when you’re ready to find your new house! Cavy Realty! It’s not a hut! It’s your home. 

There’s four points to inventory for your dog’s weight loss and healthy weight management. Food, exercise, water, and you. It’s that human piece that quietly invades how our dogs eat, and how much. Speaking from experience and successes.

Once you think like a dog, it all makes more sense. And that's what we're really talking about, scents.

Dogs are grosser than cats. Dogs are grosser than parrots. Dogs are grosser than rabbits. Oh, you’re surprised I brought up nature’s fluffy friend from field and fauna. I can prove all this in less than 700 words.

Cats want to feel safe, clean, calm, and comfortable. Which is what any human trying to go poop wants as well. Things went sideways when HGTV got involved. What you need to know about your cat's litter box to know what you don't need in a cat litter box is, cats are not complicated. They just have opinions. (See point 1)

The way to save money, time, and your sanity from fur, drool, and that thing the cat dragged in. Not all slipcovers are created equal. If you’ve got to wrestle, it’s a hassle. If the slipcover is a hassle, it’s not doing the job. Here's 7 excellent quilted, washable, no wrestling needed, water-proof slipcover ideas.

Not all dogs run fences because of fear, or aggression. Angus Lee runs his fence to get the attention of the human on the other side.

We give companion parrots many materials not native, natural, or occurring to their wild cousins. Parrot folk shop with maximum effort. So, a list of safe woods is helpful for the humans spending the money to keep their parrot busy, happy, and healthy. Let's stick with what is safe. Let's keep parrot lists simple. Safe trees for parrots (listed in alphabetical order).

Parrot proofing a home is tricky business. Flying beings are tricky business. We don’t fly, so we can’t think like a flyer. If you don’t have the superpower of flight, you can’t know what it’s like to use it. Take that fantastical superpower, put it in a brain filled with densely packed neurons ready to fire, and release them in a house. 

Your life will change when you bring home a parrot. Some of those changes may give you pause. You can’t successfully live with a fully mobile, choice driven toddler using divided attention. You can’t build a good relationship either. Your life will change if you’re doing right by your parrot. Do or do not. There is no try. Parrots know this already.

Like a human, every parrot is an individual. Each relationship and flock have their own abiding truth for themselves. There are a few absolutes that must exist in all. Empathy is first.