Pet Adoption

The Austrian dog has invented a secret of an eternal youth! A dog whose nickname is General Edi is 22 years old! Questions of the surprised veterinaries and admired journalists were answered by the owner of a dog. On his assurances. The secret of long life of General Edi is very simple: the dog adores eating of… cigarettes! Who has imparted to a dog such strange habits, it is not known. General Edi “destroys” 10 cigarettes per day, eating a paper and tobacco, accurately spitting out filters. And in fact it is accepted to consider cigarettes �harmful habit�.
Coffee is harmful habit too. But how can Kira understand this? Kira runs on kitchen faster a lightning when I open bank of coffee. I cannot pour coffee only to myself. Kira will not forgive it to me. And it is not important for her whether I drink coffee. It is important, that coffee would drink Kira. She can drink coffee from the bowl, can from cup or even to lick it from a saucer. The sandwich to coffee is not obligatory. And even it is possible without cheese. Kira is ready to refuse much. But not coffee. I know the favorite recipe of coffee �from Kira� - cold sweet coffee with cream. Kira even can work as good girl for a cup of such coffee. I think that this �harmful habit� is very useful for Kira.
Varvara has �harmful habit� too. Chocolate. It is possible are sweet. It is possible bitter. It is possible black. It is possible dairy. With impurity. Without impurity. My strong Varvara become very weak when she saw chocolate. She is ready to elicit chocolate from those who does not guess to treat with her. She can loudly elicit chocolate from those who convinces Varvara, that chocolate is harmful for dogs. She can even steal a bar of chocolate from a table. And only after all chocolate is eaten and the piece of paper is licked, Varvara start to conscience. If you saw that especial happy look of Varvara, when she eats chocolate you would never name chocolate a harmful habit.
And if these habits are not too harmful, I will go on kitchen. I shall cook to myself coffee. Take chocolate! Is a pity, but cigarettes are not necessary for me. I do not smoke. And not eat cigarettes!

Comment of Kira: and I with you…

Well, with whom there was no such case: you walk - and suddenly your eye “falls” on plaintively mewing or whining fluffy lump. Forty times you passed by homeless kids, repeating yourself, that it is impossible to regret everything, on forty first - have not sustained. And now you go with the find, having bought a pack of milk and a package of forage for it. The first reaction is to feed a hungry animal. Wait! What are you going to give him? This forage? It is impossible. You think, the kid could find in street “Pedygre” or “Wiskas”? Start better with finely cut boiled meat, a boiled rice on the diluted milk (the pack was useful!). You can give a little bit cottage cheese or kefir. Also observe reaction of an animal to each item of the menu! Absence of appetite during the first moment can be caused by nervous stress. But if appetite is not present and after a pair of hours of stay of an animal in the house, there is an occasion to reflect on, whether the animal is healthy. Take it temperature, glance in ears - whether there is no there an inflammation, observe its behavior. Slackness and absence of reaction to an event around should become an occasion for immediate visit in hospital! And if with it everything is normal, give it medicines against intestinal worms and banish fleas.

It’s necessary for dogs and cats to give them medicines against intestinal worms ten days before inoculations. Generally these medicines are recommended four times a year, but before an inoculation it is absolutely necessary. And with approach of heat season animals are in need of protection from attacks of fleas and ticks.
All chronic illnesses become aggravated at animals in the spring. So preventive course of treatment in the spring, quite probably, will prolong and will improve a life to an old dog or a cat. Also will help you not to spoil holiday by sad cares.

Tritons are very interesting, unusual and beautiful essences. Besides their name is rather romantic. Triton was name of Posejdons son in Greek mythology. Triton is an amphibian. And it means, that it will lead a half of life in water, and a half - on land! Tritons leave native lakes after will finish the marriage period a throwing of caviar. Staying in water is dangerous to a health of a triton at this time! If you have decided to take this dear essence in the house, equip aquaterrarium according to its way of life: a superficial reservoir for water and some land should be there. There should be plants in a reservoir and on land. Female will leave caviar on leaflets of seaweed. In a ground phase of a life tritons are awake at night, and are hidden in dark damp places in the afternoon. Put on a land dry layer of a moss, ceramic pieces or something like this. Tritons will choose to themselves secluded places and with pleasure will while away days there. And one more: do not hold large individuals and small tritons in one terrarium: big tritons can easily eat small one!

Each amateur of an aquarium knows that snails are necessary in an aquarium for maintenance of balance of ecosystem. But how to be, if these snails have awfully bred? To collect them one by one – business senseless and very long. To cope with it is faster, take a small dish, put there forages, cover a plastic glass with the cut apertures and put in an aquarium. All snails appear in a glass very soon.

These small singing birdies are loved by experts on a “feathery vocal”. But, to make a canary real “singer”, it is necessary … to train it to sing. Candidates for “opera divines” are carefully selected: the degree of talent of the pupil and its heredity is taken into account. Canaries of the different countries sing on different voices. In Russia, for example, the sonorous tune is characteristic for canaries. In suburbs of German city Harz the breed of canaries singing low and gruffishly was invented.

Do you want, I shall tell you about your world?
From Kira: frequently it seems to people, that they know well enough about the world of dogs. That you understand our life. That you can give us the recommendations. That you can make comments on our acts. You consider that having lived sixteen years together with a dog it is possible to consider yourself the expert on the dog souls. Instead of would you like to listen to a dog that all her life lives with the people? First, for me it is absolutely unclear, what for to complicate the life so? What for are there so much not necessary things? Everywhere in the house a thing, a thing, a thing … What for to litter the dwelling so? If there is less furniture in a room, there is more place for games. In an empty room it is possible to run, jump and play a ball. It is possible for one. But it is better with other dogs. I understand – a sofa a good piece. It is possible to lay on it. It is possible to jump on it too. It is warm on it in the winter. In the summer - is closer to an open window. But what for chairs? What’s bed in a floor? What for to drag behind itself “a support under itself”? In fact it is easier without it. Where has wanted – there and sit. It is possible near a bowl. It is possible near to the friend. It is possible to sit on the friend. All it is good and cheerful. And what for your lying on a sofa and watching TV. What for to you moving pictures which do not smell, which cannot be caught, with which it is impossible to play, which are useless? You can go on street at the desire. Why do you absolutely do not appreciate it. There the sun which heats. There a wind which smells. Many familiar dogs and people with whom it is possible to communicate. It is possible to go to a new place and to find new friends. Certainly, the house is necessary for each person and each dog. The house is a place where your friends and a bowl full of meal wait for you. But the house is necessary not for constant repair. Smelly banks of paints, rolls of wall-paper with which it is impossible to play, another’s people in your house … Is it good? What for it to you? What pleasure you receive from it? Tell us. Please. Maybe we do not know and we miss the chance. Then share this pleasure with your pets…

Comments from owner of Kira: without comments …

Polar explorers love their pets - penguins very much. And care of this birds. There is a special work at polar station: “The person who overturns penguins”. The problem consists in the following. Penguins are very curious. And rather silly. They are not able to make a conclusion. Their natural conditions of life are not variety. Therefore, presence of people is dangerous for them. If the penguin has fallen to a back, it cannot turn over. It is arranged so anatomically. In natural conditions it falls only on a stomach. The penguin appears in a difficult situation when it has fallen to a back. But their curiosity is stronger than fear of danger. They come whole the company on station to observe, when something occurs at station. All is safe, if the car passes or the plane arrives. The problem arises, if the plane flies up. Penguins observe of plane when it flies up very attentively. Penguins that are at the rate of the plane fall on a back when the plane passes a point of zenith. And “the person who overturns penguins” is hurry to help poor birds.
This history is pleasant to me very much. Even if it is thought up.

What is pleasant in home duets? That it is possible to do this work every day and it does not come to an end. For example: to feed small children. You like to feed small, disobedient, inaccurate children? And our dog Masha very much liked to do this work. The child requires that his hands frequently should be washed. Especially kid requires it during a dinner. She had a possibility to do it with her tongue. Cleared babies hands of a dirty, traces of porridge and crumbs of bread. At the same time she cleaned “removed” slices of sausage, cheese and a sandwich from hands. The small child drops something on a floor very often. It is necessary to clean it too. Sweets, apples, a cake. Masha did it very quickly. As a real professional. As a result my children have learned to eat quickly and to be accurate during a dinner. Masha watched it strictly.
Lada is very glad of spring. She knows that we replace indoor plants in the spring. And Lada likes to help to do it very much. She helps to get plants from old pots. Also she does not understand, why we throw out those plants which she has got. Plants cannot simply go through “massage” which Lada makes them. My family go in park for all the day every spring. Go without me. They take only Lada. These trips are good for everybody: for me, family, Lada and for indoor plants …

Comments of Kira: It is possible to meet the grandmother when she comes on a visit with delicacy. It is possible to make together with mum a dinner. To work as the taster at this time. There is always a lot of work in the house.

Today I have read very amusing article in the newspaper.
The farmer from Northern Wales whose name is Emlin Roberts has rescued a lamb from death and has grown up it together with sheep-dogs in one house. As a result at a lamb whose nickname is Rolo strongly pronounced dog habits have developed. It likes to watch TV together with the owner and to guard ducks. The farmer has trained the sheep-dogs, and together with them Rolo to force to enter ducks in a special shelter at his court yard. “It grows precisely the same as a dog. It is possible to tell, it perceives itself a dog. It jumps through a hoop and is rolled from a hill, as a dog. It is very clever sheep, not such as all others”, - the farmer speaks. As he said, the sheep became omnivorous. It eats everything that is given to it, especially likes nuts. Rolo eats dog forage with pleasure. Even barks sometimes …. My God, as I want to have such sheep! And even to try to bring up caw together with cats. And children with pigs. Though, it seems to me, my children and without this experience are excellent “pigs”!