Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Does your dog need to be vaccinated? Are you pro vaccinations or do you refuse to consider them? In the past, dogs routinely received vaccination against just about anything we could think of. The reasoning was the off-chance of exposure, in which case the vaccine should protect the dog. Today, we recognize that vaccines can have a downside as well. …
Every medication or preventive has the potential to cause an adverse reaction. After all, you’re introducing a foreign substance into the body. Even though drugs are tested for safety and common side effects are usually mild to moderate, a tragedy can occur. Further, sometimes a drug can be safe on its own but not in combination with something else. For…
Vaccinations save lives. But sometimes, severe adverse reactions can be nearly fatal. What is a pet parent to do? Adverse reactions are likely to get progressively worse. If your dog had a reaction to a vaccine, think long and hard about what is the best thing to do. Lilly’s story Lilly Elizabeth Hawn of Champion of My Heart is a…
Acute kidney failure is different from kidney disease. Even though chronic kidney issues can remain under the radar until 75 of kidney function is lost, it is a gradual process. Further, the new kidney function test, SDMA, can detect kidney disease well in advance. Acute kidney failure happens fast. It can be a matter of days or even hours. Potential…