Pet Health And Safety Tips – First Avenue Pets

Living in a house with more than one animal can run into money, especially if your pets are high maintenance animals like the ferret, or large enough to require more food than the average pet. But they can also lead to various health and safety issues, especially when pets belong to different species. Fights between animals create obvious health and safety problems for pets and can also be dangerous to any human who tries to step in. Many tips will tell you which pet combinations to avoid, such as a python and any animal that isn’t another python. But how does a pet owner ensure the health and safety of themselves and their animals if they already have two pets that are dangerously mismatched?
An obvious tip would be to give up one animal and keep the other. But even on behalf of a health and safety issue, not everyone is willing to do that. And depending on the species of the animal, you may have trouble getting rid of it. Pythons, for example, are a major threat to the health and safety of other pets as well as people, and they live much longer than the average dog. Other than keeping the python under lock and key, there are no tips that tell you how to keep other pets in the same house with this type of snake. There are no tips that tell you how to successfully give one away—as opposed to giving away the pet whose health and safety issues are comparatively non-existent.
Most people will not gladly take a python off your hands, even if you give it to them for free. In terms of health and safety and everything else, they are a huge responsibility and require a particularly knowledgeable owner, one who basically is familiar with every existing tip, good or otherwise. So, euthanizing the snake may seem like the only solution, and that’s certainly a threat to its health and safety.
In the case of a pet that was inadvertently paired with a python, if you opt not to give either pet away or set it up for possible euthanization, the only health and safety tip that doesn’t put both pets at risk is to lock up the python and do everything in your power to see that it never escapes.
Thankfully, the health and safety tips available for other mismatched creatures or breeds are much more accommodating to both you and your pets!
If your dog and cat don’t get along and you aren’t willing to give either pet away, one really good health and safety tip is to keep them separated when you aren’t home and apply close supervision when you are. Cats can be housed in the basement or second floor, but be sure to keep all windows closed if you choose an upper level. Another pet health and safety tip worth mentioning is to make an effort to teach the dog that attacking the cat is unacceptable, and reward him when he obeys related commands. If you choose to adopt a cat and a dog at the same time, adhere to one of the oldest health and safety tips in the book—choose both pets when they are very young.
One final health and safety tip is to avoid pairing dogs, cats, or ferrets with rodents. Of course, if you have already done so, you can follow the same tips suggested for dogs and cats, keeping in mind that small rodents, (when not locked in their cages) can easily escape even the most secured rooms, thus putting their own health and safety at risk.

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