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What Medicine to Give a Dog With a Cold
As temperatures drop and daily temperature swings widen, dogs with weaker immunity can catch colds, with sneezing, runny noses and fevers. This article explains how to recognize a dog cold and how to treat it safely based on the dog's weight.
Why Does My Cat Have a Runny Nose and Breathe Through Its Mouth?
Cats prefer nasal breathing and only mouth-breathe when truly unable, so a runny nose with mouth breathing needs prompt care. This article covers the causes and treatments.
Can a Parrot’s Cold Heal on Its Own?
A parrot's cold, like ours, can come from temperature change or bacteria. Never give human cold medicine. Whether it self-heals depends on the cause — viral and bacterial colds usually cannot. Learn the symptoms and care.
What to Do When a Mother Cat Breathes Rapidly After Giving Birth
Rapid breathing in a mother cat after birth is often normal in the first 2–3 days, as delivery drains her energy and nutrients. Support her with nutrition and rest, avoid baths, and see a vet if symptoms persist or worsen.
Why Is a Kitten Drooling?
Kitten drooling can be normal (grooming, food stimulus, stress) or a disease sign (oral disease, heatstroke, respiratory infection, poisoning). Keep the environment calm to reduce stress; brush teeth regularly, feed a balanced diet, avoid toxic plants and chemicals, and see a vet if other symptoms appear.
Can a Hamster Die from a Cold, and How to Treat It?
A plain hamster cold rarely kills if caught early, but unchecked cold plus low temperature can be fatal. Mild cases need warmth and rest; worse ones may need banlangen or, for severe cases, amoxicillin—see a vet if no improvement.
Difference between cat stomatitis and calicivirus?
Different diseases in symptoms, cause, treatment. Stomatitis is oral inflammation from tartar/bacteria/virus, treated by cleaning, meds, diet. Calicivirus is contagious viral; early signs resemble stomatitis but add respiratory, conjunctivitis, pneumonia; treated symptomatically/supportively.
While I Was Out, My Parents Hit the Cat; I Came Back to Find a Protruding Eyeball and Trouble Closing the Eye—What’s Wrong?
Eye-closing trouble can be trauma, eye disease, or respiratory illness. If hit, it's likely trauma with bacterial infection—clean with eye drops. If also sneezing/tearing, suspect cat flu or bacterial conjunctivitis; use antibiotics and an E-collar, and get an eye exam if the eyeball is abnormal.
Watery eyes, clear runny nose, occasional sneezing, mouth-breathing
These signs have many causes; most common are feline rhinotracheitis and calicivirus upper-respiratory infection, not ruling out bacteria, mycoplasma, chlamydia. If unsure, do a respiratory PCR panel. Heart/lung disease (heart disease, pleural effusion, pulmonary edema) can also cause them. Bloodwork, fSAA, chest X-ray, cardiac ultrasound may be needed; only by identifying the pathogen can you treat well.
My free-roaming cat returned after two weeks, breathes through its mouth with a rattling sound, but eats and plays normally – is it sick?
Mouth breathing with phlegm suggests upper respiratory, lung, or infectious disease. Given stray exposure, see a vet to identify the cause.