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What happens if a dog eats chocolate?
A dog that eats chocolate can be poisoned, showing nervous sensitivity, anxiety, excitement, excessive thirst, diarrhea, incontinence, rapid breathing, vomiting, intermittent convulsions, twitching, and a racing heartbeat. Large amounts can later cause cardiac arrest and death. Ordinary chocolate may not contain real theobromine but is still not recommended for dogs.
What happens after a dog gets an injection?
After a shot a dog may have pain, yelp and lick the site; timid ones get stressed, shaking or hiding. Some have allergic reactions with swelling, drooling or vomiting.
What happens if a cat catches a chill?
A chill can cause a respiratory infection with sneezing, runny nose, and coughing. Chilling the abdomen irritates the gut, causing diarrhea, vomiting, pain, and appetite loss. Give pet cold medicine, keep the cat warm, and feed protein-rich food; for gut symptoms give anti-inflammatory and anti-emetic meds and seek IV therapy if no relief.
What happens if a dog gets enteritis?
Enteritis causes frequent diarrhea, reduced appetite, lethargy, and fever, and severe cases may show bloody stool and vomiting. Treat with pet anti-inflammatory, gut-repair, and anti-diarrhea medication, plus probiotics about an hour later. Feed bland easily digested food and see a vet if there is no improvement.
What does parvovirus stool look like in dogs?
After parvovirus infection, dogs develop soft stool and diarrhea, and in severe cases watery and bloody stool that is soy-sauce colored with a strong fishy odor. Other signs include depression, appetite loss, vomiting, and fever. Unvaccinated dogs should be tested at a vet promptly.
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.
What happens if a dog is bitten by a venomous snake?
Dogs bitten by different venomous snakes show different symptoms. Common snake venoms are divided into neurotoxic, hemotoxic, and mixed types. A neurotoxic bite may cause little local reaction but leads to drooling, vomiting, locked jaw, rapid breathing, limb weakness, and rapid death after convulsions, while a hemotoxic bite causes swelling, severe pain, tissue necrosis, and symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and blood in the urine.
What happens if a dog holds stool too long?
Long stool holding releases toxins, causing bloating, pain, poor appetite and vomiting, and can lead to constipation and megacolon. Walk it morning and evening or train indoor relief.
What happens if a dog loses potassium?
Potassium loss causes lethargy, poor appetite, weak gut, constipation, weak limbs and slow reflexes; it can weaken the heart and cause arrhythmia. It needs urgent vet care.
What happens if a dog eats jelly?
A little jelly is mostly harmless but not recommended; sugar and additives burden metabolism and cause obesity. No icy jelly, and mash it to avoid choking.