From a strange cat to a dog with a cough – your pet queries answered
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HE is on a mission to help our pets . . . and is here to answer YOUR questions. Sean, who is the head vet at tailored pet food firm tails.com, has helped with owners’ queries for ten years. He says: “If your pet is acting funny or is under the weather, or you want to know about nutrition or exercise, just ask. I can help keep pets happy and healthy.”.
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Q) MY seven-year-old cat, who I took in as a stray, is lovely – but does some strange things. Lois has always been very strong willed and demands food. If I don’t feed her quickly enough, she will bite my ankle. Sometimes a normal noise, like getting cereal out of the cupboard, will make her eyes bulge and she dives through the cat flap at super speed.
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What’s making her do it?. I live near farmland and wonder if she previously had a semi-feral life. Patsy Davison, Anglesey. A) If you don’t know your pet’s history, their strange antics can fall firmly in the “my pet is just a weirdo” category. Sounds like Lois is a complex character, and I could give you a list of a dozen possibilities why she might be behaving certain ways.
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Maybe she had a rough start and doesn’t fully trust humans, so she will either run away or lash out if she feels you’re being unpredictable. Q) JUST before Christmas, my dog Benson developed a rough hacking cough that sounds like a goose honking. When we go on a walk, he pulls really hard and I wonder if this has caused the cough by damaging his airway.
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