Hotspots are common in every breed – and in mixed breeds – of dogs. They are symptoms of something else going wrong internally, and need to be looked at as such. There are many different causes of hotspots, such as food allergy, cancer, boredom. Your vet should help you pinpoint the problem. A change in …
Fleas are such a pain! In some parts of the country, they are a horrible menace, and in others hardly a flea is around. Here in Kansas, we aren’t overrun but we do get our fair share. Ticks are quite numerous here too, but again not as bad as certain areas of the country. Since …
Canine hip dysplasia is a terrible, painful disease. I wish that no dog would have to go through it, but we can make them more comfortable by diet, supplement, and lifestyle changes, with or without surgery. Here are some tips on helping your dog live with dysplasia, some I have used on my GSD …
Description There is a disorder (it may actually be two) in the canine similar to the “wobbles” in thoroughbred horses. Much has been written on this, with various descriptions such as cervical vertebral instability (CVI), cervical spondylopathy, stenosis of the cervical vertebral canal, and even the mouthful, caudal cervical vertebral malformation- malarticulation. It was once …
Any time a field dog works, he encounters many dangers, one of which is a potentially fatal envenomation from a poisonous snake. These can occur on land or in the water. There are approximately 15,000 dogs and cats bitten by poisonous snakes in the United States annually. The highest envenomation fatality rates occurred in Arizona, …
Here is a series of four articles I put together on the subject of ethoxyquin. The second article titled ETHOXYQUIN – AGAIN was the original article I had referred to. When going through my files I came across the other three articles and decided to include them as well. Note from John Macdonald - June …
Continued from Page 2 A Canine Revolution? The foregoing prescriptions may sound like a canine revolution. If so, the revolution would consist mainly of integrating many facets of the fancy which now exist in ghetto isolation, or of importing good ideas from other parts of the cynological world. In Europe, for example, many breed …
Modified from an article by Janet E. Steiss, DVM, PhD, and J.C. Wright, DVM, PhD, in the Winter 1995 issue of the Sports Medicine Program Newsletter. “Limber tail” syndrome is a condition familiar to people working with hunting dogs. Typically, young adult Pointers temporarily lose control of their tail to the extent …
“Nature prevails enormously over nurture” …English scientist Francis Galton in the late 19th Century. Natural Selection & Survival of the Fittest Hip dysplasia is not common in wild animals because of the continuous processes of natural selection and survival of the fittest. In an environment where society removes or …
Introduction This paper is the first product of an effort I have undertaken that was prompted by the discovery that our five month old Scottish Terrier suffered from Type III von Willebrand’s Disease (vWD). The existence of this genetic bleeding disorder was unknown to us until he suffered a near fatal …