Getting a pet from the SPCA may cost more than a free to a go home animal but pets from the SPCA are already de-sexed (or come with discount for de-sexing) and have been vet checked and vaccinated already.

A small pure bred dog that barks is the best burglar alarm.

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 […]