Squirrels are wonderful little critters and I love them dearly. I have my doubts on how many people could live with a pet squirrel in their home. It certainly wouldn’t be fair to cage the pet squirrel. Their eating habits need polishing; they rarely will use a litter box. The Squirrel as a pet.

Pets and the Planet: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Pet Care - a Book Review. This book goes past the popular muddle of the green hype and tells us what really matters. It is obvious the author has done a great deal of research to educate us on safer choices. This book can help everyone.

Training the pet and taming the odor. Training an exotic pet to use litter boxes is only half the battle. Then you have to deal with the odor. However, what do you do with the icky smelly used litter once you scoop the box? It is too cold to run it outside each time you scoop. Litter box smell!

The mouse, or since they are very social, mice are great pets. Pet mice are intelligent and have a sweet nature. Mice are one of the animals that have been domesticated the longest; over 10,000 years. They are an immensely popular pet. Learn how to care for mice as pets.

How and what to feed a gerbil, what kind of cage for a gerbil, how to choose a gerbil, what kind of bedding material, gerbil food, food dishes that won't tip over, chew sticks to keep teeth worn down, be sure to keep genders seperated, if a gerbil is healthy, and how to bond and train a gerbil.

Hamster Pet Shop is where you can find safe cages, bedding, food, and toys for your pet hamster. In addition, excellent books on taking care of the pet hamster, teddy bear hamster, and training the pet hamster. Make sure you have plenty of chew sticks and chew toys to keep their teeth worn down.

An pygmy goat is one of the most animated and gregarious pets you will ever have. Pygmy goats are sweet and affectionate and will certainly add to you and your family’s enjoyment of life. Baby (kid) picture available! The babies or kids will weigh from 2-4 pounds at birth. The pygmy goat as a pet.

Of all pets, the skunk is the pet in the most need of serious public relations work. Here is a sweet, extremely intelligent, and delightful animal and people can only visualize the stinky spray and rabies. First of all there hasn’t been an incident of a skunk transmitting rabies since 1984.

I had put forth a question and perhaps got an answer I didn’t want to hear. Do we give up our exotic pets to eliminate the exotic pet trade? As I look at my pets and look into their eyes I know I can’t stop. They give me something I can’t get anywhere else.

Find what supplies you need for your exotic pet reptile, amphibian, and insect. All your ectotherms needs. Each and every pet lizard, snake, turtle, or praying mantis, has very specific needs, from heat, light, UB light, UVB light, humidly, very specific temperatures, and housing.