Posted on 17th May 2023 by Green Lane Farm Team
If you’re thinking about getting a pet, whether as a companion for yourself or as an extra member of your family, you may be undecided whether you’re better off getting a cat or a dog. For some, this choice may come down simply to which they prefer – we all know...
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Posted on 21st April 2023 by Green Lane Farm Team
Humans like to think of themselves as the most intelligent creatures on the planet. But there are many different ways of measuring intelligence, and in some ways our animal friends have got us beaten hands down. For example, if we were to be taken somewhere unfamiliar and left to find...
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Posted on 16th March 2023 by Green Lane Farm Team
If you’re a dog owner, you’ll almost certainly have been stared at by him or her on numerous occasions and wondered what was going on in their head at the time. If we’re feeling cynical, we might interpret it as suggesting that they are after something, probably food. If we’re...
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Posted on 17th February 2023 by Green Lane Farm Team
For many of our customers keeping birds, such as chickens, geese and other domestic fowl and poultry, these will be worrying times. Europe and the USA are currently suffering the worst ever outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, with some 160 million domestic birds having been killed...
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Posted on 13th January 2023 by Green Lane Farm Team
With the notable exception of Bigwig from Watership Down, rabbits are not generally noted for their bravery. As potential prey for many larger animals and birds in the wild, it’s perfectly understandable for them to be by nature cautious and on high alert for any threat or signs of danger....
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Posted on 16th December 2022 by Green Lane Farm Team
Dog owners have it easy when it comes to working out what their pet is thinking: you can never be in any doubt whether your dog is happy, excited, scared, sad or guilty – every possible emotion is written clearly on their face and reflected in the way they behave. And...
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Posted on 14th October 2022 by Green Lane Farm Team
Just because you love dogs, it doesn’t mean everyone has to. Many people are scared of them, and if they had a bad experience as a small child it’s hardly surprising that they might be – at the very least – wary of an over-exuberant dog. Meanwhile, if your dog jumps...
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Posted on 16th September 2022 by Green Lane Farm Team
Most things involved with keeping a pet remain unchanged: you feed them, you stroke them, you take them for walks and occasionally you have to take them to the vet. But while our lives seem to change every day with each new development or invention, it sometimes seems that microchip...
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Posted on 19th August 2022 by Green Lane Farm Team
There’s a lot of responsibility involved in looking after any kind of animal, and one of the most important things to consider is making sure that you’re providing the right kind of diet. With common pets like cats and dogs, that’s generally not too much of a problem, because there...
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Posted on 15th July 2022 by Green Lane Farm Team
If you’re planning on having a dog and a cat in the same house, you’ll understandably be worried about how they’re going to get on. Alternatively, if you’re already in that situation and they’re not getting on, you may be wondering what you can do about it. This month, the...
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