Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Medical decisions that might include surgery are always difficult. Surgery is invasive and carries risks. Should your decision process change when your dog becomes a senior? While I always lean toward the most natural solutions, I recognize that there are times when surgery is the ideal solution. When we adopted my Rottweiler Cookie, she was a year-and-a-half old. She’s been…
The causes behind your dog’s sudden collapse include anything from an electric shock, poisoning, to endocrine disease and everything in between. Spoil your dog like there is no tomorrow. Because you never know when there won’t be one. Let your dog sniff that fire hydrant. Let him do all the doggy things he wants to do. Let him get dirty.…
What does it mean when your veterinarian diagnoses your dog with gastroenteritis? Isn’t that a mouthful? Sometimes it seems the vets use these terms specifically to baffle us! In their defense, medical terms are actually highly descriptive once you figure out how to decipher them. Frequent diagnosis If you own a dog, gastroenteritis is a term that you might run…
Summertime brings with it a number of health hazards for dogs. Among them is the danger of poisoning from blue-green algae. Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, are common in stale or stagnant water. Consequently, it can appear in ponds, lakes, reservoirs, and other bodies of standing water. Waters affected by blue-green algal blooms are usually of poor water quality.…
If your dog is lame, do you think it is important to know why? What difference would it make? The list of potential causes of your dog’s lameness is long and most likely suspects depend on: how quickly it came on how long it’s lasting the breed the dog’s age the dog’s lifestyle other variables Those criteria make certain possibilities…