YOUR EVERYDAY FIELD GUIDE
The everyday joys, honest questions, and little things that make a life together.
Life With Pets / Getting Started
Cats are usually fastidious about toileting, consistently using a litter tray indoors or loose soil outdoors when it’s available. Discovering urine or faeces somewhere else in the house is understanda
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Life With Pets / Getting Started
Nobody quite prepares you for how disorienting the first fortnight with a new dog can be, even if you did all the reading beforehand. Here is a grounded, unglamorous guide to what actually matters in
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Life With Pets / Getting Started
A simple rule of thumb applies here: if it feels too cold outside for a person, it is probably too cold for a pet as well. A fur coat does not mean an animal stops feeling the cold, and keeping pets w
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Life With Pets / Getting Started
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being a new dog's only point of contact for absolutely everything: feeding, walking, training, emergencies, entertainment. It is unsustainable,
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Life With Pets / Behaviour
Anyone with both a dog and a garden in India has eventually stared at a patch of yellowed, dying grass and wondered what exactly their pet did to deserve blame. The answer, as it turns out, has less t
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