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What are the symptoms of a sick parrot fish?
A sick parrot fish may eat less or stop, show breathing difficulty, and have sneezing, coughing, or runny nose. It becomes sluggish and less active. Raise the temperature and soak in 1% salt; if no improvement or worse, use medicine.
Why should you not supplement calcium for a Scottish Fold cat?
Do not freely add calcium; Scottish Folds have cartilage dysplasia in the tail, ankles, and knees, and extra calcium speeds cartilage calcification, triggering or worsening disease. You may add chondroitin; do not lower dietary calcium, just feed normal food.
What happens to an alligator snapping turtle if the water is too hot?
They tolerate 3-35 C, but above 40 C they may have body dysfunction, poor appetite, breathing trouble, and heatstroke. Hot water also speeds bacteria and parasites, raising risks of fungus, mouth ulcers, and enteritis. Keep water about 28-30 C and adjust by season; keep it clean.
What happens if a dog bites a toad?
A toad bite can poison a dog; toad skin and fluids hold toxins that enter via saliva, causing drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, breathing trouble, fast heartbeat, fever, mouth inflammation, and pain, even death. The toxins can also irritate airways. Rinse the mouth with lots of water and go to the vet at once.
Its whole body is covered in these black spots
From the photo the dog's belly has black spots, likely folliculitis or superficial pyoderma from bacteria, often from a damp environment; confirm with a skin scrape. Clean with saline, disinfect with diluted peroxide or iodine, apply antibiotic ointment, and use oral antibiotics or medicated baths with an Elizabethan collar; disinfect the environment.
My cat has been breathing fast lately, about 55 breaths; appetite and spirits are fine, but it panted through its mouth a few times
Fast breathing with normal appetite and spirits may follow exercise, or signal lung or heart disease. Panting after exertion is normal and settles with rest; but at rest or persistent, think pneumonia, pulmonary edema, or heart disease and see a vet.
My duckling keeps lying on the ground and its legs cannot support it
Weak legs may be immature balance, or sudden inability to stand means calcium deficiency or disease. Calcium deficiency softens bones; Staphylococcus infection can swell joints and cause soft, painful, limping legs needing medicine.
My dog was bitten by a bigger dog on the chest and hind leg; it hurt to walk and to touch at first but later could be touched; how do I tell if a bone is hurt?
Being bitten and limping is serious; see a vet to catch hidden problems. Clean and disinfect the wound with saline or iodine, bandage if bleeding, and get a rabies shot if unvaccinated. Walking difficulty also warrants an exam.
My dog has a pimple on its left leg with a little scab, and blood in its stool
Bloody stool usually comes from gut disease, viral disease, or parasites, such as a gut foreign object or severe gastroenteritis, and distemper or parvovirus often include it. Get a full vet check to find the cause; do not let it worsen.
No dandruff but a bit red and swollen
Ringworm usually brings patchy hair loss, redness, itching, and dandruff. From the photo the cat has hair loss and redness; besides ringworm it could be folliculitis or bacterial/parasitic infection. If it worsens, see a vet to confirm and treat.