Pet Corner

Hello lovely peoples of PS.com! I come to you for your assistance, and really and help would be appreciated. I have a male kitten who is around 6 months old now, and up until now I haven't had any problems with him apart from a few minor things that were overcome quite easily. But recently he has decided he likes playing with wires, and as such I have either fixed or replaced cables on 3 seperate occasions. I see everywhere that can cats chew because they are bored, but he has plenty of stuff to amuse him and gets loads of attention from me and the other half. So really I'm looking for people who have either had this problem or know of a possible solution, really any h…

Hi!! I have just got myself a new puppy! and I need to get him insuranced, can anyone recommend any insurers?

OK, so the time has come for us to find a new dog. Our last dog Pebbles literally dropped dead of old age in front of us, and some mourning time later we would like to give another dog a happy and loving home. But my wife wants to get a dog from one of these adoption agencies but this worries me. Why does this worry me? Well our cat seemed to come out in sympathy and died at the grand old age of 18 within weeks of our dog departing so we attempted to adopt a cat but they wanted to come round and check the security of our fences so that it couldn't get out of the garden. But I said "You what? it's a cat, it will climb up a fence no matter if it is 20' high" so we didn'…

I have started taking my dog (A 1 and a bit year old female working cocker spaniel) out regularly. She refuses to accept the fact that she is on a lead and pulls as hard as she can, and she's very strong! She is starting to behave a bit better when there's no distractions such as my younger brother who she always plays with. I started saying "Walk nice" and praising her when she doesn't tug. I even had her "Walking nice" off the lead beside me! However this is only when she feels like it, and all I can do is keep praising her for doing the right thing, I also have developed saying "ah ah ah!" or "Tsh!" or "KIM!!!!" when she starts tugging or going ahead of me, sometimes…