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Ten Taboos for First-Time Dog Owners
New dog owners often make the same mistakes, from bathing too soon to feeding human food and using the wrong shampoo. Avoid these ten common taboos to keep your puppy safe and healthy.
Cat Arthritis: Symptoms and Treatment
Arthritis is a painful inflammation of the joints. We often see it in the elderly and it's common in dogs — but cats get it too, and it's often overlooked.
Why Do Dogs Sniff Each Other’s Butts When They Meet?
That awkward butt-sniffing greeting is actually how dogs exchange a full ID card. The anal glands carry info about health, diet, mood, and social status that only another dog can read.
How to Help a Constipated Cat
A cat should pass stool once a day. If your cat hasn't gone in 48-72 hours, it may be constipated. The most common cause is dehydration, but constipation is often a side effect of diseases including diabetes, kidney disease, hyperthyroidism and anal blockage. It can affect any age but is more common in older male cats; obese cats are at higher risk. Untreated, it leads to worse problems.
How to Handle Cat Urethritis
If a cat suddenly urinates less, the best fix is water — if that fails, a diuretic (half a tablet, twice daily for 3 days) helps. If appetite is normal, a herbal stone-expelling supplement can be increased by 1-2 tablets for faster effect.
Why Cats Get Feline Panleukopenia
Feline panleukopenia, also called feline distemper, feline infectious enteritis, or feline parvovirus infection, is an acute, highly contagious disease of cats caused by the feline panleukopenia virus. It shows as sudden high fever, stubborn vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and severe leukopenia, and is one of the most important feline infectious diseases.
Why Is My Cat Coughing (Wheezing)
The reasons a cat coughs or wheezes include the following conditions.
Diseases Dogs Easily Catch in Autumn
After autumn, big day-night temperature swings, cold/flu season; low immunity hurts people; same for dogs - owners beware.
How to Treat Pneumonia in Dogs
Lung inflammation affects a lobe or the whole lung, split into lobular and lobar pneumonia. Main signs are fever, labored breathing, and dullness on lung percussion. Here are the causes and treatments of dog pneumonia.
Causes and Treatment of Cat Black Chin (Feline Acne)
The black chin, a beauty killer for cats, spares no cat - better wrong than miss. From my experience petting many cats, 90% can't escape it! Let's examine this trickster~