Your cat has vanished from inside the house. He either got outside when you opened the door and you weren't quick enough to catch him, or he
- I have 3 10wk old puppies. One got sick and vomited several times on Sunday and recovered by the next morning. The other 2 puppies got up this morning as usual and started to eat when I fed them at 7:30am but did not finish their food. By 8am both were vomiting clear bile. They continued this way until we went to open our store at 10am. When we arrived at the store they laid down to sleep. It is now 3:20 and one of the puppies is still sleeping but seems to be resting and breathing okay. The other puppy got up to pee and poop. Her poop was all light brown liquid with an ending little clump that included grass and a 1/4" white worm. They have been wormed twice already. Do you have any suggestions?
- I have a 5 month old female, not spayed yet, and whenever see comes near me she pees a little, also whenever I try to pet her. She does not do this with my roommate, I am female and he is male. The dog is part Greater Swiss mountain dog and Golden Retriever mix. Does she dislike me or is she afraid of me? I feed her half of the time, I try to play with her, but she just starts to pee. What can I do?
- When using Revolution, is it alright to also use Frontline Plus for ticks?
- We have a 1 yr old rot/lab mix that is very active and playful. Just tonight she vomitied up her last feeding which we noticed there were worms in the vomit, what is this? I though worms were in the stool?
- Our Vet diagnosed our dog, a four year old Welsh Corgi, as having "reverse sneezes" which he has quite often. He really did not explain exactly what causes these spells and if they can be cured or what to do when the dog has these bouts? I would appreciate any information you can provide to me. Thank you! Delores Walmer email: dawalmer@verizon.net
- I have a Shoo-Poo. She is almost a year old, weighs 10 pounds. She has been vomiting about once a day for a couple days. Other than this she seems fine, she plays and acts normal. Should I take her to the vet just to be on the safe side? Thank you.
- My dog has a fetish for eating feces! Does she have some kind of vitamin/mineral deficiency? Is there anything I can give her to stop her from doing it?
- Is tylenol safe to give to dogs?
- I have an 11yr old Jack Russell. She has just recently starting to have seizures. We have been to the vet who has not indicated epilespy and discouraged neurological exam due age. We have been also told that she may have parasites in her brain that are difficult to remove. Our dog's seizures start with nose tremors, drools, shakes and last less than a minute. She has had 4 about 3hours apart. Then none for a few weeks. She DOES NOT urinate or deficate during seizures. Since the episodes she has walks around in circles, favoring one side--the left . She bumps into things and seem to loose balance when she focuses on something. She does not seem to react to things as she use to. Not excited when we arrive home. Interestingly, she hasn't barked since the seizures, and when in situations upsetting to her she manages to make a weak howl but not bark. To compound to her situation, she has been diagnosed with degeration in her left eye and cataracts in the right. Could the eye lens issue and focusing cause the loss of balance? We have been treating her for vertigo, parasites and seizures homeopathically with help of our holistic vet.
- our 12 year old dog has suddenly lost weight, she eats whenever it is time to eat and she is still active, is this common?
- My Yorkie is 5 yrs 3 mths old. Lately he is licking his front paws top and underneath several times a day. Is this a problem to be concerned about?
- I have a six month old male pit bull who has lost his taste for food the last two days and his face appears yellowish. Not sure what the problem could be.
- my 8 yr. old Boston Terrier has "herniated" eyes. That is the best description I can think of. The pink under eyeball skin is protruding and almost covering her eyes. Is there a name for this condition and ,if so, what procedure can remedy it?
- I AM THINKING OF GETTING A AMERICAN ESKIMO MINATURE, FEMALE. THE OWNER SAID THE FEMALES DO NOT SHED. JUST THE MALES. IS THIS TRUE? THANK YOU DIANA
- My dog was recently bitten by my uncle's dog. Its not very bad, but he has three puncture wounds on his left side, near his hind leg. Its been three days and he's still not moving around very well. Now he is getting red spots on his stomach. I was wondering what the red spots were from and when he will start getting better.
- What exactly is mange? Are there any home remedies to treat mange?
- My Rat Terrier is overweight and I want to change her food to lite Science Hill Diet. Should I wait to see her Vet?
- My dog is 14 1/2 years old in very good shape. The problem is she is constantly licking her paws and biting at herself. I have had to take her to the vet several times for shots but I don't really want to keep doing that. She weighs 16 lbs and I tried the suggestion of 1/2 of benedryl.
- I want to put my dog on dry food, what is the best kind to use.She weighs 13 lbs. and is 8 years old.Thanks
- Can I give my dog vitamin E for his dry skin?
- My 10-year-old pincher during our morning walk will attempt to urinate about 6 times in a period of 1 hour. At first there is a normal stream with no blood.After she begins to squat and strain herself as though she need to deficate. She may emit a few droplets or none at all. Otherwise she seems to be full of energy but is hungry all the time. Normaly she eats once a day (for the last 10) I gave her Drontal and Frontline. She doesn't seem to have worms, ticks, or flees. Does she have a kidney problem or is this urinary behavior normal for her age?
- I just received a puppy with coccidia (Almost seven days ago) and she has had diaherra since her arrival. How do you clean the areas on rugs and wood floors to insure that the parasites are not still alive?
- My dog waits for treats or table food and does not eat a lot of his dry food, maybe 3/4 cup per day. He was a shelter dog and he ate dry food there. Should I just put his food down and wait for him to eat? He is a Basenji/Beagle mix and weighs 21 lbs. and is 20 ins. tall at his shoulders. He seems thin to me.
- My 10-year-old old boxer has a patch of hair missing on his ear. It is a little bloody and growing. We live in North Carolina and there is no sign of fleas. Please help. Thanks.
- My dog is tilting his head to the right; shaking his head repeatedly; yapping when you touch the base of his right ear; he has an odor in his ear and wondering if it's just because we didn't clean it; when we did clean his ear, he yapped for a while and just shook it off. I know it isn't normal for him to do this and I really don't want anything to happen to him. HELP!
- I have a 12-year-old female chow. She has been on Prednisone 2x for a period of a week and a half. It's been about 3 weeks since she has been off the medication. Why is her belly getting so big now and she is always excessively thirsty? After drinking water or ever eating her dinner she is always vomiting. Are these side effects from the prednisone or is their something else wrong with her?
- I have a 12-week-old Tibetan Terrier, His hind legs have shed their fur. Is there a particular reason for this? He has been flea treated with advocate and there is no evidence of mites. Can you help?
- Every night when my german shepard is sleeping he shakes really bad and sounds like he is having trouble breathing. I know that animals dream but this has got to be far more than that. Should i be worried?
- My 12-week-old pup has been diagnosed with demodectic mange. The vet said giving him a mitaban dip was best, but now I am not so sure. His skin seems pinker and more irritated after the dip. Is this normal? Should I switch to another treatment?
- My Rott had her rear left leg amputated and was sent home the same day. How long should she have stayed in the hospital?
- I have a female shih tzu about 6 years old and about to have puppies. Is it important to get an x-ray before birth or not? And is it true that small dogs may need a c-section to give birth?
- I guess my main question would be what diseases could cause a bubbly itchy skin rash and a red belly. My dog is seeing an internist now, but they aren't really sure what is going on. They suspect autoimmune, but I have been searching on the internet for any autoimmune that causes that. She has been on different steriods for days and now just put on antibiotics as well and she seems to be getting a little closer to better...the only concern is her low blood platelets and proteins and her a little more than high white blood cell count. I did pay for a skin biopsy and will have results maybe monday. I just am so lost. She is a baby to me and was thinking of any suggestions I can toss their way.
- I adopted a beagle about 6 months ago. She will be staying at my parents house for next week and half. She has been to this house before, but this time I am not with her. The past 3 days she has been there she has urinated on the floor. In the past she has been treated for incontinence with Proin, but it hasn't posed a problem in a while. My parents have been taking her out at least 6 times a day, and when she is with me she can go up to 8 hours without being let out or an accident. What might be causing this behavior and how can I prevent it in the future? Thank you!
- My dog has been to three emergency rooms since Thanksgiving. She had what looked like hives all over and her stomach has a blood red rash on it. She has been treated for allergic reaction to no avail. Now they suspect auto immune, her platelets and proteins are low and her white blood cells are higher. Any idea or direction?
- How do you feel about raw meaty bone diets?
- My dog has diarrhea. Should I be worried?
- My dog is vomiting. The vomit is yellow with tiny red spots in it. What could this be? His stomach has been turning all day long, but he has vomited 3-4 times in the past 4 hours. now he is hiding under the bed.
- I’m having some problems with my dog he is black Lab Mix. He keeps licking and biting his paws especially around the nail beds (there are no visible deformities or growths, but the skin between the toes will sometimes become swollen and a oily to puss like discharge) and also seems to be scratching his muzzle excessively causing some light bald spots, here is a little history on him; 04/08 took him to the Vet for the above; they did a scraping from between his toes and muzzle. The Vet said that it showed that he had some kind of hair follicle mite and suggested 6 monthly treatments of Promeris for dogs. Though he disliked having it applied more and more (it seemed like it really irritated him for a few hours after application) he stopped scratching his muzzle (hair grew back), stopped biting his paws and the licking decreased a lot. 11/08 The biting, licking and scratching returned with a vengeance, we went back to the Vet (different Vet same office) and told him what was going on. He didn’t seem to be too concerned because his paws did not look to bad, actually looking back it seemed like he didn’t examine them too closely but took a scraping from the top of his paw and said that it showed no mites like before. He suggested that it might be some type of food allergy (he was on a low grain food diet for over a year) and suggested a grain free food also to use Benadryl 50mg & Cephalexin 500mg if the paws looked like they were getting infected. We have changed his diet to grain free dry food and sweet potato & fish can food 6 weeks ago but there has been no improvement. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and or do you think I should push to have the Vet do another scraping this time between the toes or around the nail beds, thanks Mitch itchie694@sbcglobal.net
- I have a Hungarian Viszla that has numerous problems currently...she first had these weird episodes where she would fall over and couldn't get up. She would lose control of her bladder and pee during this time. They were lasting only about 15 seconds and then she would get right back up and act fine. My vet started her on Phenobarbital for seizures. Shortly after I started her on the meds she started bloating up. I had scheduled her to be spayed and took her in for that appointment. When the vet cut her open fluid poured out of her abdomen. She came through the surgery ok, but was still draining fluid. My vet then put her on Lasix to help absorb the fluid and we stopped the seizure meds. She told us at that time that the previous blood tests had shown low protein levels. It has been about a week and she now looks like skin and bones except for her belly area, which looks like she is taking on fluid again. In the past two days she has had 2 of those weird spells/seizures as well. Any suggestions???...
- my dog is having a bout of diarrhea. can i give him pepto bismol to sooth his stomach?
- Can I change my English Springer Spaniel's dry food to wet food instead?
- Can you give a puppy cranberry juice for bladder infection?
- What should I know about Cushing's Disease in dogs.? Our vet thinks our dog has it.
- dog is coughing/choking all night. sounds like a geese honking and looks like he wants to vomit. outside he runs around barking like nothing is wrong. comes in and starts the coughing/choking. we were up all night listening to this...HELP! Thanks
- Why does my dog eat feces?
- I have a 9 month old F2 Goldendoodle. He high energy but pretty well behaved for his age. When the weather is good we will walk for 1 1/2 to 3 hours a day. He can run loose so he covers a lot more miles than I do. When the weather is bad I run him on a treadmill for an hour or even a little more at about 5 miles per hour. He gets on easy and runs without a leash. I can even leave the room for a short time and he continues to run. My question is, am I pushing him to hard on the treadmill?
- How do I get rid of fleas for a 7-week-old puppy without using harmful chemicals?
- I have a 19 lb mini dashhound. He has a sprained back. He is also constipated. I had picked him at the vet yesterday. He had spent the night there. They give me medicine to give him. An antiinflamatory med. and a ulcer medicine. He still hasn't gone poo. He is also dehydrated and had been running fever. Is there anything else that I could possibly do for him.
- I have a 10 year old Lab she has flaking dry skin her coat doesn't look as full as it used to it has also started falling out in clumps. My wife has noticed she is also getting skinny. what could this be and what should I do?
- Should I neuter my two male lab puppies?
- I have a puppy about 3 and half months old. He doesn't travel very well, even for short distences. He drulls and uselly vomits before we reach our destanation. People are telling me to give him dramamine for the motion sickness. My question is can I give it to him and how much? He weighs about 23- 25 lbs.
- My 8 wk old puppy has a lump on her belly button, could this be a hernia and if so, what could I do?
- My bulldog mix has a rash on his face and it keeps getting dry and red and starting to bleed. Just wondering what it might be?
