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Tips, buying guides, and best practices for living well with a dog or cat.

Siamese cat drinking from the stream of a stainless steel water fountain on the floor of a bright hallway
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My cat is not drinking: how much water it needs, why it drinks so little, and how to get it to drink

The cat descends from a hunter that got most of its water from its prey: it drinks little, concentrates its urine strongly, and a cat fed wet food can go almost without drinking and come to no harm...

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My dog eats too fast: why, what it risks, and how to slow it down without frustrating it

A dog that empties its bowl in thirty seconds is not hungrier than the next one: it eats like a dog, fast, because nothing stops it. The price ranges from bringing up whole kibble to gastric dilata...