Our neighbors named us as the guardian for their two dogs in their will. We were honered but hoped we never had to add the care of their dogs to the care of our own dog. We searched for ways to assure our own dog would receive lifetime care if it became an orphan, compiled the information and...

I have a 12-14 yr old, 40lb heeler mix who about 3 weeks ago sneezed blood out his nose and now seems to be permanently congested in his nose. He seems to breath out his mouth OK though. He is still doing OK in that he still enjoys his walks and life in general. Sleeping though is a very noisy...

Hi, I have a 4 years old female maltese. She is losing hair on the back, around the tail area. I took her to the vet and he used hydrocortisone (I think) which temporarily fixed the problem, but still she has thinning hair in that area. The vet said that she needs to be on strict diet, but we...

i have a 11 mothes old cross yorkye jackrussel she is verry unstable on here back leds she is full of energy but it is like she is 2 dogs the front legs go in one direction and the back are still trying to find out were the front legs went it is like she is drunk but just here back legs she is a...

Hi -- I have a seven-year-old male Lab mix who has developed a bone tumor in his right front leg, just above the wrist joint. He had been limping off and on for several months (he'd limp one day, be fine for weeks, limp another, etc.). The vet chalked it up to overexertion (these are active...

I am a big fan of feeding dogs homemade food, including what used to be called "table scraps". Having just adopted a wonderful young Tibetan Terrier from the local SPCA, now placed with my elderly mom, we are working on a diet for her. The stew Mom made for her other dogs included onions, which...

Puppies as old as *how many weeks or months* can safely be given their first heartworm preventative (I use ivermectin) without first testing for circulating heartworm microfilaria ? Joe

I have a approximately 10 year old male cocker spaniel who is taking Thyroxine for a thyroid problem. The vet said he would measure the thyroxine level 3 hours after the drug was taken. Is this the correct time to do this? I have read on various internet resources that it should be 4-6 hours. The...

I have a male dachshund, age 14 1/2 years. He is diabetic and had surgery for a ruptured disc a couple/few years ago. He recovered from that quickly. He has always been active as I take him for long walks daily as weather permits. He has been having symptoms of canine dementia for the last year...

Hi. My friend wanted me to come over and take pictures of her new dog, she kept at me and I really felt like this was becoming a pain. I finally went over. I had never seen an English Bulldog befor and what a doll Skidder is. Here is a link to a small slide show. This dog...

Hope you can help me with this. I promised the breeder of my dog that when he reached two years of age I would get his hips and elbows x- rayed and the films read and rated by the experts at OFA. I just found out that this would cost me roughly $700! Ouch! Since the information provided by OFA...

First let me say that it's really awesome to see a place that appreciates the importance of properly training your dog and has such love and compassion for dogs. You guys will definitely be seeing me around here more often :-) There's this dog park I go to every weekend and I've been trying...

We are thinking about teaching our dog the trick we see on T.V. you throw something off a running dock and the dog jumps into the water for the item. Then they are judge on far the jump was. Our dog is german shepherd , collie and he loves to swim and he runs very fast. We have the pond but dont...

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I've seen a few posts about natural diets for pets and I agree they are good. We actually found one food in Canada that is dried buffalo and a few vegetables mixed it. Then our Pug got Inflammatory Bowl Disease (IBD) so we put her on The White Diet: White Fish and White Rice. This is to make sure...

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My dog got both heartworm and ticks fever at the same time and now being taken medicine .He get thinner and thiner as he not willing to eat any food although I gave him meat and chicken.He got thiner and thiner and I dont think he cant affort more than 1 weeks. So what can I do with him? I know it...

Bandaging every other day will not be a problem. I've gotten REALLY good at bandaging, because I've already had to do it many times over! Yesterday, I was going to be gone all day (7.5 hours) and decided that with the tail issue, Marcie was better off crated (she has not been crated in weeks)....

Please take 10-15 mnutes of your time to be an anonymous participant in a research project that I am performing for school. You will be asked to answer a series of question and view up to 4 short video clips upon which some of the questions are based. The research involves the level of...

Greetings All! Things are unfolding much faster than I expected on annual rabies laws in the country, sorry for the frequent posts, but I do want to keep you updated. Kris WYOMING Rabies Laws--ACTION ALERT!!! Following a 3/22/08 article entitled Vaccine overkill? in the Wyoming News Wyoming...