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Is Your Dog Sick If Its Nose Is Running
A dog with a runny nose is not automatically sick - mild cases often clear up on their own, so do not panic. But watch for loss of appetite, cough, vomiting, or loose stool, which mean something more serious. The discharge type is a clue: clear watery fluid suggests a cold or rhinitis; thick egg-white mucus points to an upper respiratory infection or bronchitis; yellow-white sticky mucus signals sinusitis; pus-like, pasty discharge suggests distemper, pneumonia, or bronchitis; and blood-tinged or foamy fluid warns of lung bleeding, edema, or congestion. If it is only a simple cold, keep the dog warm, give water, and a little children's-dose banlangen or antiviral oral liquid for about three days - but stick to a child's dose.
How to Discipline an Overly Playful Cat
An overly playful cat usually has excess energy or wants attention. Cats need daily activity; without it they act out to burn energy. A long-ignored cat may misbehave to draw notice. Beyond play and toys, punish bad behavior on the spot with fair, consistent correction, and consider spaying or neutering a hot-tempered cat, which usually calms it.
Best Cat Breeds for First-Time Owners
More people want cats but struggle to pick a breed. Good starter cats are hardy, affordable, and easygoing — this guide covers the British Shorthair (blue), Chinese Li Hua, American Shorthair, Siamese, and orange tabby.
Essential Medications to Keep on Hand for Your Dog
Illness or injury can strike at night, so every dog owner should keep a basic pet first-aid supply at home. This guide lists useful external, digestive and special-purpose medications to have ready.
What to Do When Your Cat Won’t Sleep at Night
Cats are nocturnal, but a cat that wrecks your sleep can be managed. Burn off daytime energy with toys and play, tire it out with a pre-bed session, and watch for illness if a previously calm cat suddenly stays up. Most cats settle as they mature.
Since this afternoon my cat has been listless and barely eating; it drank a fair amount of goat-milk formula just now, its urine is yellow, it keeps doing the ‘hen squat,’ ignores me when called, and its eyes seem unable to open
A cat in hen-squat with lethargy and unable to open its eyes may be having a stress reaction or illness such as gastrointestinal disease. If it persists, see a vet; if unvaccinated, rule out FIP and distemper. Yellow urine may be from low water intake or a urinary issue.
My cat is lying motionless with eyes closed, not sleeping, and won’t eat.
A motionless, listless cat is most likely sick. Check its body for abnormalities; if none show but it doesn't improve, take it to a vet. Long refusal to eat weakens it, so give glucose for water and energy, then get it to a vet soon.
Cat post-birth over a month, listless, won’t eat; before this I didn’t know what happened, often away; now home, haven’t eaten all day, ignores snacks. Related to birthing (1.5 months ago)? Also ate but stayed thin before – related?
Postpartum listlessness/refusal has many causes including stress and hidden disease; pre-birth low eating/thinness suggests consuming disease like FIP, parasites, liver. Postpartum hormone/env stress also; if favorite food refused, likely sick - uterine infection, severe malnutrition. See a vet.
Older cat was hit by a car and died; kitten keeps crying daily, sometimes refuses milk, has a smell, climbs on people.
A kitten crying after losing its mother may be fear, hunger, cold, or needing to eliminate. Give familiar-scented items and care. Also watch for other signs (lethargy, no appetite, shaking, fever) that mean sickness - see a vet.
2-year hamster very sleepy lately; plays then sleeps; wakes when touched but resumes sleeping. Old age or sickness? One eye opens only halfway.
Hamsters are naturally sleepy; if eating/stools normal, it's fine. If constantly sleeping, food untouched, thinning, it's sickness; half-open eye suggests eye disease/infection - clean, medicate, or see a vet.