The holidays are rapidly approaching, and if you're like 90% of our readers (most current poll results as of Dec 1), you buy your pets gifts for the holidays. However, with the economy the way it is right now, this may not be the year you want to go out and splurge. Fortunately there are many cheap (or free) options for gifts that your pets will be sure to enjoy, as Sue Novak writes.
Novak offers the following suggestions for different pet types:
Cats – paper grocery bags left on their side or cardboard boxes with holes cut in them
Dogs – cardboard that they can rip up or a toy made of strips of t-shirts braided together
Birds – new things in their cages, including bells, ladders, mirrors and treats
Small mammals – old cloth for chewing or a new exercise ball or wheel
These are great economic suggestions. Pets are great recipients of gifts – they're happy to get anything unexpected, so it's easy to please them. If you have any ideas of your own, please leave them as comments!
The holidays are rapidly approaching, and if you're like 90% of our readers (most current poll results as of Dec 1), you buy your pets gifts for the holidays. However, with the economy the way it is right now, this may not be the year you want to go out and splurge. Fortunately there are many cheap (or free) options for gifts that your pets will be sure to enjoy, as Sue Novak writes.
Novak offers the following suggestions for different pet types:
Cats – paper grocery bags left on their side or cardboard boxes with holes cut in them
Dogs – cardboard that they can rip up or a toy made of strips of t-shirts braided together
Birds – new things in their cages, including bells, ladders, mirrors and treats
Small mammals – old cloth for chewing or a new exercise ball or wheel
These are great economic suggestions. Pets are great recipients of gifts – they're happy to get anything unexpected, so it's easy to please them. If you have any ideas of your own, please leave them as comments!