Time to visit the pet shop again!

Well winter does seem to well and truly be here and with so much cold and wet weather your pet is sure to be spending a lot more time indoors this season, which may be mean a few extra visits for you to your local pet shop. With your pets settled indoors this means that they will be spending less time playing and running around the garden or chasing bugs or cats around. But they will still have a lot of energy building up and will need a way to get it all out, hence the wonderful trips to the pet shop.

Before your dogs get stuck into chewing up your slippers or before your cats take to scratching at your furniture there are some ideal ways to keep your pets entertained even when they are sitting inside. A pet shop will stock a wide range of toys, scratching posts and other innovative pet things to keep them occupied and out of mischief.

The great thing about a pet shop is that it will even be able to give you a fresh outlook on the sorts of things that your pet may enjoy – on your visit to the pet shop you might even discover new treats and toys that your pet will absolutely adore!

Pets need toys too!

As annoying and as time consuming as it may be I am generally quite amused by my cat’s shredding up of a toilet roll or newspaper. However, it can be a pain and a great hassle to clean up and may not seem worth the effort if you are not as amused by the mischief as I am. You might think that distracting your cat or kitten from the toilet rolls, tissue boxes or newspapers with a pet shop toy may do the trick to stop them from shredding but in some cases you may find that the newspaper and the tissues still appeal to your cat far more than a specially designed ‘cat toy’.

In this case you need to put some ingenuity into practice. Start by making the newspapers inaccessible and by turning your tissue boxes upside down and put the toilet roll on the holder so the flap doesn’t hang down but rather rests on top of the roll. This will make it a lot harder for your cat to get a hold of the toilet paper. And after a few unsuccessful attempts to get to these shredable items your cat may stop trying, return to playing with their pet shop toys and you will be able to turn your tissue box over again.