Pet Health is Essential For Every Animal and Every Size

by Thompson Rivers

If you have a pet then you will know that it can take up a lot of your time and energy in caring for it. That's why keeping an eye on your pet's health is important, because it could reduce the long term possibility of illness, vet expense and distress for you, the pet owner, and indeed the pet.

Give Your Pet Some Attention

Pet health is essential for every type of animal, from your goldfish to your guinea pig. However, each animal requires individual attention in order to identify their weaknesses and if they might need veterinary treatment. Your pet might just need minor treatment, but if it can be avoided by doing your own pet health checks, then all the better. Knowing where to look and what to look for is an important part of conducting health checks for your pet, so some helpful hints might be just what you need.

Large vs Small Animals

There is information available on the web which details what you need to look for as part of your daily or weekly pet health checks, so use this information wisely and make a note of what you need to do. Larger animals like dogs will often require day-to-day pet health checks due to their size and the fact that they have more areas that possibly need to be checked. When it comes to smaller animals like rabbits or gerbils, these might only require a weekly check, but it is important to ensure that it is a thorough one and conducted properly. Because your pet dog might always be under your feet and making itself known to you around the house, it is often easier to conduct a pet health check because you can monitor him more closely and any changes in his temperament or mood will be more easily identified, therefore knowing if there is something not quite right, i.e. your dog doesn't feel well.

Smaller animals probably won't have you spending as long with the pet health check, naturally because there is less surface area for which to feel, but that doesn't mean that smaller pets should require any less of your attention when it comes to their long term health. Just looking out for little things like an overgrown claw or an accidental cut are important to sort out, so that they don't cause further problems.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Pets mean everything to their owners and they are often considered to be members of the family. In this case, just like you would look after your child's health, it is also important that you look after you pet's health. No pet should be neglected, and you should always make the time to give your pet a health check. Owners often forget that animals can't express how they feel verbally, so a pet owner's responsibility is to pick up on changes in mood and any visible changes like skin conditions, so that something can be done about it. Every animal, of every size, deserves a proper pet health check, and if you sense that something might not be quite right then speak to a vet for advice.

Author Mark Woodcock is a Webmaster of a wide variety of online speciality shops including a very popular site on Pet Health. Visit http://pethealthinfo.org.uk/ today.

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Why Chiller Hire for County Shows is Essential to Animal Welfare

Cattle farmers sometimes hire chillers (large, powerful cooling machines) to keep their saleable produce stored at the right temperature. In spring and summer, organisers of agricultural events, such as big county shows and smaller regional shows, also rent chillers, to keep valuable cattle cool in the holding pens and the main arena. It’s not that surprising when in the UK, individual cattle can be worth over £1,000, depending upon the cow’s breed, age and productivity and prime breeding cows reach six figure sums (according to the Livestock Auctioneers Association.).

Agricultural events – ‘shop windows’ for cattle farmers

In the UK the agricultural shows and events calendar gets busier each year. The Devon County Show, The Royal Cornwall Show, The Great Yorkshire Show, The Royal Norfolk County Show (and many others) is where the business of farming is showcased. Each show is a shop window for the county's locally produced food and drink.

Along with thousands of members of the public; farmers, herdsmen, retailers and other professionals use the shows as an opportunity to see the best dairy and beef livestock, equipment, products and services available in the UK market. Farmers promote their own businesses there: showing their cattle, seeking to impress, to network and make connections in the industry. All this can often result in sales on the day and boosted trade later.

It is essential, therefore, that their cattle look and feel healthy. One of the biggest threats to this is heat stress.

How cows can be affected by heat

Whilst cattle do have a fairly large ideal environmental temperature range, cows that are simply too hot can:

be unable to produce milk (high-producing cows are most sensitive to heat stress because of their high feed intake)
have difficulty in becoming pregnant
be susceptible to heat stroke, which can sometimes cause death. While cattle dying from heat stress is more common in the USA and South America than in the UK, it is still a threat here every summer [particularly in more enclosed spaces], and something farmers need to protect their cattle from

 With all this, it is understandable that hiring chillers from a good chiller hire company, to keep livestock cool, is an option that agricultural event organisers (and the cattle farmers themselves) are grateful for.

 About chiller specialists

Rented chillers are basically massive air-conditioning units – incredibly powerful cooling machines that provide volumes of cool air that air conditioning units simply cannot. Some chillers possess the capacity to cool large-sized buildings, such as huge office blocks and high-production dairies, etc. What is good about portable chillers is that they can be rented temporarily (for both indoor and outdoor use).

So, at a county or regional show, organisers can cost-effectively lease chillers for the event’s duration only, without having to heavily invest in chiller units that will basically be unused for a great part of the year (creating an additional problem of where to store them in between events and the event season, which runs from May to September).

The best chiller rental specialists have depots all over the country (stocked with a full range of modern chiller models). This means agricultural event organisers anywhere in the country can have the most suitable chiller units they need delivered quickly, from a local supplier.

Farmers must have confidence in event organisers

UK cattle farmers are already among the most efficient in the European Union, with breeding, feeding and management improvements seeing average milk yield per cow increasing year-on-year over the past decade, according to industry trade publication, The Farmers Guardian. The dairy and beef industry is still highly competitive, however. County and regional shows are an essential part of every cattle farmer’s business. But if there is a risk of heat stress to their herds at the shows, farmers will understandably be reluctant to attend.

For event organisers being able to source temporary chillers from a good chiller hire company quickly, easily (and surprisingly affordably) means they can virtually guarantee that the right environmental conditions for livestock will be provided on site.

Article submitted by Carl Webb, Specialist Hire Director at Andrews Sykes. Andrews Sykes is the UK's largest specialist in chiller rental services to the agriculture and events hire industries. Andrews Sykes provide chillers to virtually all industry sectors using machinery sourced from the world’s top manufacturers.