Emergency Dog Health Care : How to Tell if Your Dog Is Sick
Learn the proper way to take your dog’s vital statistics and tell if your dog is sick in this free pet health care video, with tips from a veterinarian.
Expert: Dr Adrienne Mulligan
Bio: Dr. Adrienne Mulligan graduated from veterinary school at North Carolina State University in 1993, and now owns the Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic in Camp Verde, Arizona.
Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler
Duration : 0:3:11
My dog has skin problems and the breeder guarantees her health. Should I sue her?
I’ve taken my dog to the vet and they can’t figure out what is wrong with my dog. Possible allergies. I’m going to be spending lots of money on this poor dog. She is my first dog ever and now I can’t even breed her because she might pass on her skin problem. Should I sue the breeder? She told me I could trade her in for a new one! Yeah right she is a year old now.
I went through the same thing with one of my dogs, the problem was mainly my fault. I was shampooing my carpets and was using a little bit more dosage than required in my shampooer cause I have a high traffic home, I also used the same thought process for mopping, well alas, all that residual cleaner was getting into my dogs skin and reeking havoc. I have since learned to use much caution when it comes to products that will be in contact with my pets fur. I even use hypo allergenic stuff if it’s available for the required task at hand, yes, even for their baths and their bedding. I would try going that route first before pursuing more expensive avenues. As far as law suits in skin related issues, I was told you have to have proof it is the breeders fault, so, find out if any of the other litter mates have skin issues, (if she is willing to give names and numbers) and go from there. Good luck.
Are Commercial dog foods(canned and dry) responsible for the rapid deterioration of dog health since the 70’s?
Vets report more disease and much greater level of dental decay in dogs over the last 20 years. I hear in US they even have dog dentists for god’s sake!
This coincides with the introduction of the widespread use of commercial dry and canned food.
I often work in the country and I notice dogs fed on meat, bones and scraps seem to be in superior health to those feed the convenience diet of a can or some dry.
Some country vets have told me the natural, unprocessed diet is the best.
Can man produce food in some factory as good as nature or is he just having him self on?
Some owners who feed the commercial stuff tell me their dog likes it and he seems ok but I wonder about the long term effects on a dog of a diet that may be internally foreign to him.
I encounter a lot of old dogs who develop degenerate diseases which some vets suggest is due to a processed diet with is unbalanced and deviod of a lot of enzymes.
CDF is convenient, cheap and less work for the owner.
Many dogs may live longer but it is usually not a quality life.
Emmy duck I am looking for the truth and sane and rational debate. I will keep asking questions until I get that.
Thank you Adriel I will check that resource and your observations. Much appreciated!
Mustanglynnie that is not truthful. Dogs are not living twice as long as in the 70’s. Maybe longer but twice? Dogs in my area lived till 15 years plus in the 70’s. Are you saying they are living to be 30 now?
Diet does play a part, because people tend to buy the cheap quality foods such as Pedigree, IAMS/Eukanuba, Dog Chow, Alpo, etc. These foods don’t contain the proper sources of protein..they are laden with corn, wheat, soy, beet pulp, by products and some even have dyes and chemical preservatives. Dogs aren’t designed to be grain eaters or to derive proper nutrition from grains.They aren’t designed to process grains, they are meat eaters. Dogs fed these cheap foods have more allergies, UTI, bladder/kidney stones, etc. Studies are also leaning towards corn and soy as being responsible for unexplained seizures in dogs.
Good quality foods that contain at the very least 2 meat protein sources and no corn, wheat, soy, beet pulp, dyes, preservatives are much healthier and dogs fed these types of foods have far fewer health issues.
In an ideal world dogs would be fed raw diets or homecooked diets, however this isn’t feasible for a lot of people,therefore they need to find and feed the best quality foods that they can..those with meat sources as at least the first two ingredients and that don’t contain corn, wheat, soy or beet pulp.
Also the reason it seems there is a rise in pet illness is because within the past 20-25 years more and more people are seeking medical attention for their pets and are seeing their pets as family instead of just dogs out in the back yard. Also veterinary medical advances have come a long way. I’ve worked in the vet field for 34 years and I’ve seen a lot of changes.
What should I name my dog training service?
I train dogs and help people find the breed that suits their lifestyle. I give information on good locations to obtain a dog [breeder, shelter] and how to care, etc. But this service is mainly about training and pet finding.
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