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06/09/2025

These clips always make me laugh 🤣

06/09/2025

Would you just look at these gorgeous young cats... all looking for special indoor only homes ...
😍Marbles is 4 years old, very cuddly and loves nothing more than climbing up onto your shoulders!
😍Speckles is 3 years old, super sweet and gentle.
😍Pixie is 8 months old, with a lovely calm and quiet character.
😍Garfield, a shy and sweet chap is just a year old.
These very special cats are all looking for homes with no other cats, where they can stay indoors as they have FIV+
For more information on FIV, please click on the link below: 👇
https://www.cats.org.uk/help-and-advice/health/fiv-in-cats
To look at more information on these fab four, take a look at our website👇
https://www.cats.org.uk/downhammarket -all
https://www.cats.org.uk/downhammarket -all

06/09/2025

Mast Year

A mast year is a natural occurrence when trees, particulary oak, chestnut and beech produce a larger quantity of seeds than they usually would. It is a sporadic event that occurs when the weather conditions are correct for seed production. A warm spring and favourable seasonal conditions lead to the over production of seeds, it is thought that this over production is strategic on the trees part in order to overwhelm wildlife that consume the seeds to ensure that some of the seeds avoid predation and are able to germinate.

But what does a mast year mean for our pets?

Acorns and beech nuts contain tannins and conkers contain aesculin both of which are poisonous to dogs. If eaten these can cause gastric upsets such as vomiting and diarrhoea, and eaten excessively can cause kidney and liver failure. Acorns and conkers can also cause blockages requiring surgery.

Symptoms of acorn, beech nut and conker poisoning include:
🍂vomiting
🍂diarrhoea
🍂abdominal pain
🍂loss of appetite
🍂dehydration
🍂collapse
🍂lethargy or tiredness
🍂wobbliness and tremors

What can you do to prevent your pet from eating acorns, beech nuts and conkers?

🐾Don't encourage your pet to play with or catch
🐾Use a suitable toy to distract your pet if they are known to forage
🐾Teach a command such as 'drop' or 'leave' in case they pick anything up that they shouldn't
🐾In the event that your pet does pick anything up, if it is safe to do so and your pet allows it, remove the item from their mouth

If you are worried that your pet may have eaten, acorns, beech nuts or conkers and is showing any symptoms of poisoning you can call any of our teams for advice

04/09/2025

September’s idea is a hack rack. Stay with me if you are thinking ‘but I already have one’ … one of the behaviours that rabbits should spend most time engaged in is moving around grazing. That action of eat and move is absolutely vital for their health. Moving (as your doctor may have told you) is important for fitness, you shouldn’t sit at a desk all day and your rabbit shouldn’t sit in one spot grazing. Hoping about is also really helpful to mobility in rabbits’ digestive system (avoiding stasis) and keeping calcium in suspension in their bladder to avoid issues around bladder sludge.

How do you encourage a rabbit to move? Multiple feeding stations. Make these really simple hay feeders and spread them about in your rabbits’ space your rabbits will then move from place to place to graze. You can add tasty herbs or the odd pellet to give them some extra encouragement.

If you don’t have a cable tie you can use a peg or piece of string or even just pop the box on the floor. I’d love to see some more hay rack examples to inspire other people!
Make sure you are following The Rabbit House for next months enrichment idea.

03/09/2025

03/09/2025

02/09/2025

🤣

Good morning to absolutely NOBODY
because once again I had to claw my way through the abyss of neglect, alone, starving, and betrayed

At 5:01am, I awoke
At 5:02am, I realised I had not consumed a single crumb since prehistoric times
(or roughly 11pm)
By 5:03am, I was a Dickensian orphan rattling my food bowl, whispering,
“Please sir may I have some more?”

So began my crusade

Step one the nose probe
A delicate shove of my cold, damp snoot directly up Dad’s nostril
Subtle?
Yes
Effective?
Absolutely not
He snorted like a broken trumpet and rolled over

Step two the sonic yowl
I unleashed my most operatic, echo chamber meow, somewhere between
dying opera singer and air raid siren
Mum stirred
And whispered, Felix shhh
How dare she 😾

Step three the unholy ritual
I climbed onto the dresser, locked eyes with them, and began systematically shoving items into the void
Book
Pen
Remote
Spare change
All casualties of war
Still they slept on tho 😾

So finally, I launched the final attempt
I launched myself onto Dad’s chest, turned 180 degrees, and sat squarely on his face
Direct hit
He gasped
Flapped like a man being exorcised

Mum?
She laughed so hard she cried
She called me “a demon in a tuxedo”
Which is fair

By 5:18am, I was fed
By 5:19am, I was sprawled like a Roman emperor across the sofa
But the trauma?
The betrayal?
Still fresh

If I perish tomorrow from lack of sustenance, please carve my gravestone to say
“Here lies Felix
Gone too soon
Taken not by illness, but by parental neglect

Felix 😼 Chaos in formalwear
Hahaha

01/09/2025

🌟Meet our lovely Cassie 🌟
This amazing girl has been in care for a whopping 8 months and really deserves a loving home of her own.
Cassie is a sweet and gentle girl who adores affection and will weave around your legs, looking for some love. A peaceful environment in a rural location is her ideal with an adult family so that she can lead the good life, coming and going as she pleases, finding the sunny spots to laze away her days. While she hasn’t quite shown her lap-sitting skills with us just yet, we believe that with some time and a cozy home environment, she’ll feel comfortable enough to curl up on your lap. She would like a pet free home so she can soak up all of the love and affection she deserves. If you think you can provide this sweet lady with her forever home, don’t hesitate to reach out today!
https://www.cats.org.uk/downhammarket -40970

01/09/2025

Genius for internal doors 👍

01/09/2025

Posted 10am Monday, 1st September 2025

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