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Advice and stories
What we learn looking after animals, written down so it is useful to someone else.
Care
Your perfume is not neutral to them
A dog reads a room with a nose tens of thousands of times better than yours. Ventilation, then ventilation, then ventilation.
08 Aug 2026 2 min read
The microchip is only as good as the phone number
Most chipped animals that are not reunited have a chip that works and a registration that does not.
07 Aug 2026 1 min read
Safety
Summer in Amman is harder on them than on you
Small details to us. Life or death to them. The parked car is only the famous one.
07 Aug 2026 2 min read
What to send with a boarding animal
Its own food, its own bedding, and the medication written down rather than explained at the door.
06 Aug 2026 1 min read
Behaviour
Why your cat goes mad at three in the morning
The zoomies are not a fault. They are a hunting cycle with nowhere to go.
06 Aug 2026 2 min read
A cat that hides is not a cat that hates you
Hiding is what a cat does with a room it has not finished assessing. Rushing it is the one thing that makes it last longer.
05 Aug 2026 1 min read
Care
The food bowl is probably the wrong shape
A cat that leaves food around the edges and eats from the middle is not fussy. It is avoiding its own bowl.
05 Aug 2026 1 min read
Bringing a rescue dog home
The first three days, the first three weeks, and the three months it actually takes.
04 Aug 2026 1 min read
Safety
Never put tea on a kitten's eyes
It is the most common home remedy in Jordan and it is the one that costs kittens their sight.
04 Aug 2026 1 min read