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Chinchilla Care Essentials
When keeping a chinchilla, never feed spicy or cooked food — many deaths come from bad diet. In hot summers, cool them down. The author shares more chinchilla care notes.
Symptoms of Canine Distemper
Canine distemper is a highly contagious disease in dogs. Once a dog is infected and shows obvious symptoms, it needs immediate veterinary care.
Can Cats Get Diabetes?
Diabetes is a multi-cause metabolic disease marked by chronic high blood sugar, from defective insulin secretion causing disorder of carbs, fat, and protein metabolism.
Do Cats Have Blood Types
Like humans, cats have blood types — but no type O. Cat blood is mainly A, B and AB. A is most common, B rarer, AB rarest.
Symptoms of Diabetes in Pets
Just as diabetes affects people, it is affecting more and more pets. Obesity is a factor — over 50% of pets are overweight, raising their diabetes risk. In fact, an obese cat is four times more likely to develop diabetes than a cat at a healthy weight.
How to Treat Canine Coronavirus Infection
Canine coronavirus infection, also called canine coronavirus diarrhea, is an acute infectious disease caused by canine coronavirus, mainly characterized by vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration in dogs.
What Is Canine Parvovirus Infection
Canine parvovirus infection is a viral infectious disease caused by canine parvovirus, characterized by hemorrhagic enteritis or non-suppurative myocarditis. It spreads quickly and has a high mortality rate.
Canine Rotavirus Infection
Canine rotavirus infection is an acute contagious disease that mainly affects newborn puppies, clinically characterized by watery diarrhea; adult dogs are usually subclinical. The disease spreads quickly where hygiene is poor.
What Is Canine Parvovirus (Parvo)?
Parvovirus is a DNA virus without an envelope and has an icosahedral structure. Puppies and young dogs with immature immune systems are highly susceptible, mainly through direct or indirect contact such as feces, urine, vomit, and saliva of sick dogs, or food and utensils they used, all of which are contagious. In group kennels the death rate can exceed 50%, and generally ranges from 30% to 70%.
Symptoms and Treatment of Canine Parvovirus
Canine parvovirus, also called 'dog turning intestines,' is a very serious contagious viral disease. But it is not untreatable - early detection and early treatment give a dog a good chance of recovery. Here are its symptoms and treatments.