I bought 2 Chihuahua for $250. Sold one for $250, bought a male dog, had a litter of puppies and sold the puppies for $1150. I have the where with all for another litter and have already had 2 studs on the dog at $250!

I have Kitty litter instead of using the litter bags I use news papers and then dump it in the rubbish bags ready to be taken on rubbish day.

I brought kitty litter liners but the cat keeps making holes and driving us nuts with the noise of her mucking around with the plastic at night etc, so they not completely a waste of money I recycled the liners by using them to pick up cats poos and throw out or as rubbish bin […]

Kitty litter gets expensive and becomes a disposal problem. I now use wood shavings which can be used to help mulch the garden once used. There is no smell with this.

For kitty litter I use wood pellets, (the ones used in pellet fires). I find them very economical.

Put a glove of garlic into your dog’s drinking water – it keeps fleas at bay and works as a worm treatment. M.J. of Dunedin has a word of caution: Garlic and any member of the onion family is dangerous for dogs, as it causes haemolytic anaemia and can cause death or very expensive vet […]

Lavender, freshly picked and rubbed along a dogs back, keeps away fleas!

My cat suffers from skin allergies -maybe from flea bites, maybe something else – but I used to spend hundreds of dollars every year on vet visits and cortisone injections, as he would lick constantly and end up with bald and/or weepy/bloody patches. After researching online, I now give him a cod liver oil capsule […]

Flea treatments cost a fortune! What we’ve done with our two cats is to train them from kitten to be bathed and brushed regularly. We usually only get fleas on them if we go away for a few days (those who feed them don’t comb them), but a few vigilant weeks of bathing and brushing […]

This is a good and cheap flea remedy for cats and dogs that works. Mix 225 ml cider vinegar with 112 ml of warm water. Add 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda. Shake well, put into a spray bottle and apply.