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If Your Cat Keeps Scratching Its Ears and Biting Its Tail, Does It Have Skin Disease?
Persistent ear-scratching and tail-biting often signals skin disease — commonly mites, fleas, fungus, or allergies. Prevent it with regular grooming, a dry clean coat after bathing, a sanitized living space, and scheduled internal and external deworming.
Common Eye Diseases in Dogs and Cats: Conjunctivitis, Keratitis and More
Eyes are vital to dogs and cats; disease lowers their quality of life and can cause blindness. Learn the signs and treatments of the most common eye conditions.
What Causes Respiratory Disease in Cats?
Feline respiratory disease comes from infection (virus, bacteria, fungus), inflammation (asthma, COPD), congenital defects (Persian brachycephalic), tumors, cardiovascular issues, inhaled injury (smoke), and parasites. Find the cause to treat it.
Causes of Rabbit Respiratory Disease
Rabbit respiratory disease strikes any age in any season and hurts breeders most. This guide covers the four cause groups — feed, environment, climate, and pathogens — so owners can avoid them.
Comprehensive Prevention of Rabbit Respiratory Disease
Respiratory disease is common and harmful, so prevention matters. This guide gives seven farm-level measures — siting, drainage, management, quarantine, disinfection, vaccination, and water medication.
Eight Factors Behind Farm Respiratory Disease
Respiratory disease is common and harmful. This guide lists the eight farm-level factors — density, cold, dryness, stress, drug abuse, ammonia, mixed pathogens, and heat — to fix.
Upper Respiratory Diseases in Dogs and Cats: Types and Treatment
Upper respiratory disease is common in dogs and cats, with sneezing, tearing, low appetite, and breathing trouble, and it often triggers secondary infections. This guide covers colds, nosebleed, rhinitis, laryngitis, and tonsillitis, with the drugs that help each.
I adopted this cat and did not know it was sick; its neck is scratched and losing hair on both sides — is this a serious contagious disease?
The photo of the cat's neck is blurry and skin details cannot be seen, so it is hard to determine the exact skin condition; a definite answer cannot be given yet. Shave the fur around the area, keep an Elizabethan collar on, disinfect with povidone-iodine, and take the cat for a skin test.
Dog has severe skin disease, often bites and scratches, heavy hair loss at the spot, red fleshy bumps; is it mites, fungus, bacteria, or eczema, and what medicine do you recommend?
From the brief description, the skin disease type cannot be confirmed; many need microscopic and stain exams. Most cause itch, hair loss, and red bumps; mites, other parasites, fungus, and allergic dermatitis itch more. For severe cases, take it to the vet for a basic skin exam to identify the type, then treat accordingly.
My dog is inexplicably very itchy and scratches constantly, going on half a year, but exams show no skin disease and allergy shots barely help. Are there any better solutions?
Itching without a diagnosed skin condition points to food allergy, parasite bites, or contact allergy. Allergy shots only suppress symptoms temporarily, so identify and remove the trigger, switch to a hypoallergenic diet, and keep the environment clean with regular deworming.