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What happens if you underfeed a Teddy dog?
Underfeeding affects development, causing weight loss, lethargy and rough coat. Long-term malnutrition lowers immunity and invites disease, and chronic hunger can damage the stomach and cause gastritis. Occasional overfeeding can also cause acute gastroenteritis.
What is the tailless cat like?
The tailless cat is gentle, very friendly to humans and enjoys interacting and playing. It is intelligent and can learn commands like a dog, but its lifespan is only 10 to 15 years due to genetic defects causing arthritis and urinary issues. Care requires controlling diet and dental hygiene.
How to feed an Old English Sheepdog?
As a large breed, feed large-breed kibble. If cost is high, after weaning give homemade food of chicken, pork, beef, duck, vegetables, corn and wheat flour, olive oil, and a little salt, cooked and cooled. Avoid onions, leeks, and chili to prevent poisoning or gastroenteritis.
What happens if a Teddy eats spicy food?
Spicy food irritates the gut, causing vomiting and diarrhea, possibly acute gastroenteritis. Unused to spice, the dog may jump, drink wildly, and bark. Do not feed spicy food; give water to ease reaction and see a vet if symptoms appear.
What happens if a dog overeats?
Overeating usually causes a bloated belly, abdominal pain, restlessness, vomiting, and hiccups. The dog may keep changing posture to relieve the bloating, and the vomit is mostly undigested food. Give a little pet probiotic to aid digestion, then withhold food for half a day and see a vet if vomiting persists.
How is the saw-edged box turtle?
The saw-edged turtle is hard to keep: it may refuse food when new and has a fragile gut prone to gastroenteritis. Keep it warm and humid at 25-30 C.
What is a normal cat stool like?
Normal cat stool is brown, short and cylindrical, firm and intact. Loose or pellet-like stool suggests hairballs or dehydration; watery stool signals serious illness.
Won’t eat, drinks a little water, has difficulty defecating, seems to pass blood, hind legs weak, dry heaving.
Many diseases cause anorexia; if mild, probiotics and soft food help, but dry heaving and difficult defecation may mean a bone or foreign body causing constipation or obstructive enteritis needing X-ray and possibly surgery. See a vet.
My dog’s stool was normal at first, but last night it had water mixed into the poop.
Watery stool is diarrhea, possibly from parasites, indigestion, or gastroenteritis, not necessarily parvovirus. Fast half a day with probiotics and light diet; if no improvement, use medication or vet testing.
My dog has diarrhea with blood but is still very active; it ate a little sunflower seed shell and vomited it out.
Bloody diarrhea can be gut scraping by a foreign body, parasites, hemorrhagic enteritis, or virus. If active and seed shells were eaten, it may be mild; fast and give probiotics, then meds if no improvement, or see a vet for foul-smelling stool with other signs.