Kennel Terminology

4. loose skin behind an animals next often used to handling and restrain animals
7. eating of feces
8. gnawing herbivorous mammals having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw one behind the other and comprising the rabbits, hares, and pikas.
9. meat eater
10. carnivore family that also includes weasels, mink, otter and skunks. Species in this family have scent glands that produce strong smelling musk.
12. a muscular organ that crushes the food up with the digestive juices into a fluid mass. The gizzard contains pieces of grit that the bird has eaten to assist the crushing.
13. is the band just above a birds beak where their nostrils are found
14. (Two words)ulceration of the foot pads and foot area caused by the animals body weight pressing down on the foot; commonly seen in rabbits housed on wire caged floors.

1. storage facility, it does not digest the food
2. (Two words) Rabbit nocturnal feces that is looser than normal and contains vitamins and nutrients the the rabbit consumes
3. group of parrot-like birds that includes parrots, budgerigars, cockatiels (among others) that have a strong curved beak and tow forward -facing toes and two rear-facing toes.
5. (Two words) when patches of fur is lost from the chinchilla coat to avoid predators in nature.
6. perching birds, most songs birds (finches, sparrows) have three forward facing toes and one rear- facing toe.
7. becoming active at twilight or before sunrise.
11. word derived from a Latin verb that means to gnaw.
15. any of several short-tailed South American rodents