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Old English Sheepdog: Price and Buying Guide
The Old English Sheepdog — a medium-large, shaggy herder that's both a joyful companion and a skilled sheepdog — runs roughly 3,000–15,000 yuan for purebreds, with pet-quality ones around 1,500 and regional prices varying. Pick on bloodline (look at parents and siblings across generations), judge the standard square build and thick coat, and know the trade-off: a 2-year 'destroyer' phase and 2+ hours of weekly grooming in the heat.
Can Dogs See Color?
Dogs are not fully colorblind but are red-green blind, seeing shades of blue and gray while unable to tell red, orange, yellow, and green apart. They trade color detail for superior night vision, motion detection, and peripheral sight.
Silver-Point vs. Silver-Shaded British Shorthair: What’s the Difference
Silver-point and silver-shaded British Shorthairs both belong to the shaded color family, but the silver point is a pointed variant with much lighter hair tips and blue eyes. The fastest way to tell them apart is eye color — blue means silver point, while green or yellow-green means silver shaded — and the silver point also carries a noticeably paler coat.
How to Tell If Your Cat Is Sick
A sick cat hides its discomfort, so the earliest clues are changes in sleep, litter-box habits, appetite, weight, coat, and water intake. Red flags such as vomiting, diarrhea, labored breathing, a head tilt, or straining to urinate need a vet, and routine checks also catch fleas, hairballs, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, and urinary disease.
What to Do If Your Schnauzer Gets Eczema
Eczema is an inflammatory skin reaction of the epidermis to an allergen, showing as red patches, papules, blisters, weeping, and crusting with heat, pain, and itch. It is linked to allergies, irritation, excess carbohydrates, heat and humidity, and poor nutrition, and it appears most in China from May to September. Keep the skin clean and dry, use a flea collar, and treat with antibiotics and steroids plus an Elizabethan collar to stop self-trauma.
Why Dogs Itch and How to Treat It
Itching can come from allergies, weather, bedding, diet, nerves, or internal disease — and once parasites are ruled out, corticosteroids often calm it fastest. Find and remove the trigger (switch shampoo, fix diet, control fleas) and see a vet for whole-body or unexplained itching.
Why Are White Dogs Prone to Deafness?
Not all white dogs are born deaf - this hereditary deafness appears in 85 breeds, but any all-white dog is more at risk. So what is deafness?
What Is Dog Folliculitis?
Folliculitis means inflamed hair follicles. Professionally, bacteria infect the follicle and the body inflames the spot to self-repair. Mild cases go unnoticed; most are a tug-of-war needing meds.
About Feline Epiphora (Excessive Tearing)
Epiphora is abnormal tear overflow, caused either by blocked drainage through the nasolacrimal system or by excessive tear production beyond what drainage can handle.
What to Do When Your Dog Has Eczema
Usually dogs develop eczema in summer and autumn (May-September), generally on the skin's epidermis and nipples. The above owner's dog was confirmed by a pet expert to have eczema. So during the high season for eczema, what should we pay attention to?