Plenty of people have a cat or a dog, but not everyone knows at least some basics about illnesses of their pets. If you do not want to do a lot of harm to your animal, you should learn a lot about medicines, which can help your puppy or hurt it.
Dog’s organism is not like yours, that’s why it is not necessary to give it such medicine, as paracetamol. Effect of one tablet can lead to a fatal outcome. Resultantly, dogs die directly on hands of their owners after using …

Chronic bronchitis.
The cough, also known as infectious tracheobronchitis of dogs, is easily transmitted from one dog to another. It is believed that this illness is caused by some viruses and the bacterium Bordatella Bronchiseptica. Symptoms of the disease are: intermittent dry cough with expectoration from a nose, or without it. Such cough poses a threat to the life of a dog: many dogs make complete recovery in some weeks. However, puppies and small dogs need special care. Any animal with such cough needs to be placed in warm damp conditions …

Among nonexperienced and skilled dog’s owners there exist many myths. They do not have any basis, but many people accept them as an axiom. In practice, these myths sometimes cause not so small troubles to people and their pers. We offer you to familiarize yourself with some of these myths and with realities, disproving it.
Warm nose is a symptom of an illness.
It is one of the most widespread myths, which gives owners and vets a lot of troubles. Who from skilled dog breeders was not awakened early in the morning …

Qualitative composition of dog’s food: presence of proteins, carbohydrates, mineral substances, vitamins must be considered. Hypersensibility to one or another substance in a diet is described in medical and veterinary practice. Such allergic reactions as a diarrhea, vomiting, stomachache, eczema, asthma, headaches and even hyperactivity are already learned.
However, allergic reactions to some foodstuffs are not so often in veterinary practice, as in medical one. Almost all allergic reactions boil down to skin manifestations, diarrhoeia and asthmatoid conditions.
Researchers distinguish two big aetiological groups of food allergies: food hypersensitivity (an …

Caries is a gradual destruction of tooth tissues beginning from tooth enamel. Unfortunately, dogs suffer from it, quite often. However, sometimes owners confuse caries with dark (brown or yellow) stains on teeth of a dog, not leading to tooth destruction.
Primary cause of caries is a metabolic imbalance.
Caries can appear after an infectious disease. The most destructive effect on teeth has distemper. By the way, because of this, it is not recommended to do an inoculation against distemper during changing of teeth. In the best case there will be yellow stains …

If you see, that your dog is lame, it is necessary to examine a leg. Matted hear between pads must be cut off carefully, as it disturbs a dog, like a stone in your boot disturbs you. If your dog hurt itself, delete fragment of broken glass or bur with forceps. Leg must be disinfected and bandaged, in more difficult cases it is necessary to consult a vet.
Probably, every dog’s owner was worried about the health of its pet. Sometimes illness begins suddenly and sharply. And sometimes its initial …

Whatever type of arthritis your dog has, correct diet makes wonders. This diet can be recommended for all dogs with any form of arthritis. Remember that your dog must stick to this diet for the rest of its life. Do not worry, it is not expensive. What you need to do is a few efforts for your dog. It is worth the effort, believe me. The diet will raise the level of health of your dog. You will see how manifestations of arthritis will be reduced.
So, you need:
№1 – your …

Correct housing and feeding is the basis of dog’s health. If the owner wants his cocker spaniel to be healthy, he should not forget about special preventive measures for dogs. So, for example, the whole problem is long ears of a cocker. This prevents ears from ingress of foreign bodies in external ear canal, but it also blocks normal ventilation of an ear, which can cause an inflammation in ears.
In anticipation of an inflammation ears should be cleaned every week, because inflammation arises as a result of accumulation and …

Health of every critter depends on three major factors: food, physical activities and sound sleep. Let’s start with speaking about healthy food for dogs.
Problems originating in faults in feeding are widely varied. There are diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, urogenital system, cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal system and the so-called “illnesses of civilization”, infections connected with weakening of immunity, endocrine abnormalities, emotional discomfort and many other illnesses.
Food is that basis, on quality of which depends the health of your puppy.
State of health depends on functions of organs and systems, …

The foundation of your dog’s health is its feeding. By its nature, every dog is a carnivore (dog’s progenitor is a wolf), however it does not mean that it should only eat meat.
One of the main features of a dog is the ability to adapt to life with people, that’s why it can adapt to our food. The main thing is presence in food of all the necessary nutrients.
The basic nutrients, which your dog needs are:
• Proteins
• Fats
• Carbohydrates
• Mineral substances
• Vitamins
• Water
Proteins are irreplaceable components of cells of …