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The most frequently presented pets include...

Rabbit

Features:
  • Sociable animals
  • Herbivore
  • Teeth grow for life
Feeding recommendation:

  • Hay, fresh food, fresh water, no dry food!

Veterinary recommendation:
  • Vaccination: against rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) and rabbit plague (myxomatosis).
  • Castration of female animals, as many uncastrated female rabbits develop uterine changes that can be fatal.
  • Regular dental check-ups (at least once or twice a year).
Common diseases:
  • Infection with Encephalitozoon cuniculi (E. c.)
  • Rabbit snuffles
  • Dental diseases
  • Formation of urinary stones or urinary gravel
  • Diseases of the digestive tract
  • Ecto- and endoparasites

 Guinea pig

Features:
  • Sociable animals
  • Herbivore
  • Teeth grow for life
Feeding recommendation:
  • Hay, fresh food, fresh water, no dry food!
Veterinary recommendation:
    • Castration to prevent reproduction
    • Regular dental check-ups
    • Claw shortening
Common diseases:
  • Dental diseases
  • Diseases of the digestive tract (diarrhoea)
  • Skin mycoses
  • Ovarialzysten
  • Ektoparasiten
  • Harnstein- bzw. Harngrießbildung
Chinchilla Features:
  • Living in family groups
  • Herbivore
  • Teeth grow for life
Feeding recommendation:
  • Hay, very little fresh food, fresh water, no dry food!
Veterinary recommendation:
  • Castration to prevent reproduction
  • Regular dental check-ups
Common diseases:
  • Dental diseases
  • Injuries caused by conspecifics
  • Diseases of the digestive tract
  • Uterine inflammation
Degu Features:
    • Keeping in family groups
    • Herbivore
    • Teeth grow for life
    • Active during the day and at dusk
Feeding recommendation:
      • Hay, low-sugar fresh food, fresh water, no dry food!
Veterinary recommendation:
      • Castration to prevent reproduction
Common diseases:
    • Dental diseases
    • Diet-related diabetes mellitus
    • Diseases of the digestive tract
    • Injuries
Hamster Features:
  • Solitary / kept in pairs
  • Omnivorous - plant food predominates
  • Only incisors grow for life
  • Nocturnal
Feeding recommendation:
  • Hay, fresh feed, balanced grain mix, occasional insects, fresh water
Veterinary recommendation:
  • Castration to prevent reproduction
Common diseases:
  • Dental diseases
  • Uterine inflammation
  • Skin diseases
  • Abscesses
  • Diseases of the digestive tract
  • Ectoparasites
Mongolian gerbil Features:
  • Keeping in family groups
  • Herbivores and seed eaters
  • Only incisors grow for life
  • Diurnal & nocturnal
Feeding recommendation:
    • Hay, fresh feed, balanced grain mix, occasional insects, fresh water
Veterinary recommendation:
      • Castration to prevent reproduction
Common diseases:
      • Abdominal gland tumours
      • Diseases of the digestive tract
Colour rats Features:
  • Group animals
  • Omnivorous - plant food predominates
  • Only incisors grow for life
  • Twilight active
Feeding recommendation:
  • Hay, fresh feed, balanced grain mix, occasional insects, fresh water
Veterinary recommendation:
  • Castration to prevent reproduction
Common diseases:
  • Respiratory diseases (mycoplasmosis)
  • Tumore
  • Ektoparasiten
Farbmäuse Merkmale:
  • Gruppentiere
  • Allesfresser – pflanzliche Nahrung überwiegt
  • Nur Schneidezähne wachsen lebenslang
  • Dämmerungsaktiv
Fütterungsempfehlung:
  • Ausgewogene Körnermischung, Frischfutter, gelegentlich Insekten, frisches Wasser
Tierärztliche Empfehlung:
  • Kastration zur Vermehrungsverhütung
Häufige Erkrankungen:
  • Hauterkrankungen
  • Atemwegserkrankungen (Mykoplasmose)
  • Tumore
  • Ektoparasiten
Frettchen Merkmale:
  • Gruppentiere
  • Fleischfresser
Fütterungsempfehlung:
  • Proteinreiche Ernährung (Frettchenfutter), Fleisch, Eier, Küken, Insekten, hochwertiges Katzenfutter
Tierärztliche Empfehlung:
  • Staupeimpfung
  • Kastration weiblicher Tiere zur Vermeidung einer Dauerranz
  • Kastration männlicher Tiere zur Vermehrungsverhütung
Häufige Erkrankungen:
  • Zahnerkrankungen (Zahnstein)
  • Fremdkörperaufnahme
  • Tumore
  • Erkrankungen der Nebennieren
  • Herzerkrankungen

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