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Common Illnesses of Red-Eared Sliders
Red-eared sliders face several common illnesses: white-eye disease (a white film from poor water), gastroenteritis (odd red-green stools), pneumonia (wheezing, head held high), skin rot, calcium deficiency (soft shell), shell rot, and colds. Most trace to water quality and temperature swings, and many respond to antibiotic soaks or ointments plus warmth and sunlight.
Rabbit Viral Hemorrhagic Disease: Symptoms and Prevention
Rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease (RHD, or 'rabbit plague') is a highly contagious viral infection with up to 100% mortality and no specific cure. Control relies on the semi-annual RHD vaccine, strict hygiene, and disinfecting feed and water contaminated by sick rabbits.
Caring for a Roborovski Hamster
The Roborovski (or 'father' dwarf hamster) is tiny and timid, so it needs a warm acrylic cage, a calm adjustment period, and a varied but careful diet — avoid loquat, peach and spicy food. Watch for cheek-pouch inflammation and clean the scent gland regularly.
Feline Hepatic Lipidosis: Causes and Treatment
Fatty liver, also called hepatic lipidosis, is an endocrine disorder from impaired liver cells. In cats it's often triggered by anorexia, obesity, or stress. This article details it.
Rabbit Bronchitis: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Rabbit bronchitis, common in old and weak rabbits, brings cough, nasal discharge, and chest rales from cold, dust, mold spores, or irritant gases. Acute cases shift from dry to wet cough with breathing trouble; chronic ones cough after exercise or in cold air. Treat with antibiotics, cough suppressants or expectorants, and herbal tablets.
Rabbit Stress: Causes, Signs, and How to Avoid It
Rabbits are timid and sharp-eared, so strong or repeated shocks can stress them severely, even fatally. Causes include changed water or feed, weather, noise, light, moves, and strangers; signs are raised pulse and breathing, restlessness or hiding, refusing food, and does crushing or rejecting kits. Avoid stress with steady routines, fixed light, temperature control, quiet, and gradual feed changes.
Rabbit Mycotoxin Poisoning: Symptoms and Control
Mycotoxin poisoning in rabbits comes from moldy feed, peaks in hot humid summer, and hits lactating does hardest with no contagion and poor drug response. Acute signs are appetite loss, irregular stools, staggering, and death in 2 to 4 days. Prevent it with strict feed storage and anti-mold additives, and treat by stopping the moldy feed and giving glucose, vitamins, and antifungal drugs.
What Environment Suits a Pet Turtle?
Turtles are semi-aquatic, cold-blooded animals that breathe with lungs and live in lakes, ponds and rivers — active and feeding in water by day, foraging on shore at night, and very timid. Below 10°C they hibernate in mud or burrows until water rises above 15°C in April. They eat a wide diet (feed about 5% of body weight), and their color shifts with the habitat as natural camouflage.
Preventing and Treating Rabbit Pasteurellosis
Pasteurella multocida lives quietly in the nasal and tonsillar tissue of many healthy rabbits and strikes only when stress or poor husbandry lowers resistance, spreading through secretions and contaminated feed or water. Control it with strict sanitation, regular vaccination, and prompt antibiotic or antiserum treatment.
Preventing and Treating Rabbit Bordetellosis
Rabbit bordetellosis, caused by Bordetella bronchiseptica, is a chronic respiratory infection that hits young rabbits hardest, especially in spring and autumn. Keep it out with closed-herd breeding, strict sanitation, and biannual vaccination, and treat outbreaks with isolation and Gram-negative antibiotics.