Pet Nutrition Level 4 Course Certificate - Hard Copy Reviews

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“Very bad inaccurate information. I feel like this was put together by a Pet Store Employee or someone who misread the first link that came up on Google. DO NOT RECOMMEND! - It says dogs should not eat fish AT ALL as it contains thiamine. Where as all research points to fish being a risk of thiamine deficiency (lack of) and vitamin B1 (aka thiamine) is water soluble meaning that it does not build up or stay in their system like other vitamins do. This course says it causes seizures and death? - According to this course Rabbits are omnivores....I don't know how exactly because you should never feed any insects or meat to a Rabbit. Is grass animals now? - It also says hamsters are considered omnivores but they don't really eat meat, rather they eat nuts...Which is very untrue. A healthy hamster diet should include insects daily (mealworms etc). Also feeding too many nuts to hamsters, especially the Russian Dwarfs, can lead to obesity and diabetes which is a very common health issue in Russian Dward Hamsters. - It also suggests that a tank of multiple hamster cages joined together are good for hamsters. (Aka a tube type cage.) Firstly the tube cages are TERRIBLE for hamsters. They need unbroken flat floor space. Tanks are great BUT hamsters need a large enclosure of 100x50cm with at least 15cm of bedding, a wheel of 20cm+ (species dependant) AND A SAND BATH. IF your hamster is trying to escape constantly, chew the bars or climb; this is a stress behavior. (Female Syrians will do this however as they are difficult to make happy.) People have come to learn these behaviours are normal because pet stores sell tiny cages and simply don't care, but it's basically a hamster going insane. - I was also EXTREMELY alarmed when I read the part about fish care. It says you should fully clean the tank monthly (explaining how you should remove the fish, all the water, clean the decorations and then refill with clean water again). OMG NEVER DO THIS! A tank should be cycled before you add fish, a process that can take a month and you basically need to add bacteria in order to grow beneficial bacteria. THS beneficial bacteria is needed to keep the fish alive, the main reason fish die after they are added to a new tank is because people skip this step. SO when you then full clean a tank, change all the water and put everything back in you reset that cycle, remove all beneficial bacteria and if the stress didn't kill the fish. THIS DEFINITELY WILL! You should use a gravel vacuum weekly to remove a small amount of water and replace it wish fresh water AND only clean decoration/filter with tank water when needed. - I don't know much about Reptiles myself but I felt like this course was generalizing a lot when it said things along the lines of "Herbivore Reptiles should have a diet of 50% pellets". There are SO many species of Reptile and there isn't a one size fits all. I feel like that is very misleading and potentially dangerous. You should research each species by individual. Honestly very disappointed by this course, I don't feel like they asked any vets, or experts of did a Google search to even find any info and instead looked inside books from 20+ years ago. I would suggest to people to do their own research into animal nutrition and not use this course to learn anything.”