Among nonexperienced and skilled dog’s owners there exist many myths. They do not have any basis, but many people accept them as an axiom. In practice, these myths sometimes cause not so small troubles to people and their pers. We offer you to familiarize yourself with some of these myths and with realities, disproving it.
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Plenty of people have a cat or a dog, but not everyone knows at least some basics about illnesses of their pets. If you do not want to do a lot of harm to your animal, you should learn a lot about medicines, which can help your puppy or hurt it.
Dog’s organism is not like [...]
Chronic bronchitis.
The cough, also known as infectious tracheobronchitis of dogs, is easily transmitted from one dog to another. It is believed that this illness is caused by some viruses and the bacterium Bordatella Bronchiseptica. Symptoms of the disease are: intermittent dry cough with expectoration from a nose, or without it. Such cough poses a threat [...]
Qualitative composition of dog’s food: presence of proteins, carbohydrates, mineral substances, vitamins must be considered. Hypersensibility to one or another substance in a diet is described in medical and veterinary practice. Such allergic reactions as a diarrhea, vomiting, stomachache, eczema, asthma, headaches and even hyperactivity are already learned.
However, allergic reactions to some foodstuffs are [...]
Caries is a gradual destruction of tooth tissues beginning from tooth enamel. Unfortunately, dogs suffer from it, quite often. However, sometimes owners confuse caries with dark (brown or yellow) stains on teeth of a dog, not leading to tooth destruction.
Primary cause of caries is a metabolic imbalance.
Caries can appear after an infectious disease. The most [...]
If you see, that your dog is lame, it is necessary to examine a leg. Matted hear between pads must be cut off carefully, as it disturbs a dog, like a stone in your boot disturbs you. If your dog hurt itself, delete fragment of broken glass or bur with forceps. Leg must be disinfected [...]
Whatever type of arthritis your dog has, correct diet makes wonders. This diet can be recommended for all dogs with any form of arthritis. Remember that your dog must stick to this diet for the rest of its life. Do not worry, it is not expensive. What you need to do is a few efforts [...]
Correct housing and feeding is the basis of dog’s health. If the owner wants his cocker spaniel to be healthy, he should not forget about special preventive measures for dogs. So, for example, the whole problem is long ears of a cocker. This prevents ears from ingress of foreign bodies in external ear canal, but [...]
Health of every critter depends on three major factors: food, physical activities and sound sleep. Let’s start with speaking about healthy food for dogs.
Problems originating in faults in feeding are widely varied. There are diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal system and the so-called “illnesses of civilization”, infections connected with [...]
The foundation of your dog’s health is its feeding. By its nature, every dog is a carnivore (dog’s progenitor is a wolf), however it does not mean that it should only eat meat.
One of the main features of a dog is the ability to adapt to life with people, that’s why it can adapt to [...]