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Aging Dog Care: How To Handle Your Dog's Emergency Heat Stress
Both obesity and advancing years reduce a dog's tolerance to extremes of heat. The brachycephalic breeds (those with the pushed-in face) are particularly susceptible, due to their normal respiratory difficulties. It is through respiration...
Aging Dog Care: Changes In Your Aging Dog
Aging dogs are less adaptable to, and more adversely affected by, stress and change. Yet so many dog owners do not take this into consideration when making plans involving their older dog. For example, for years you and your dog enjoyed those races through the woods or around the playground. You may still enjoy it now, but your older dog possibly finds it di...
Aging Dog Care: Changes You Can Expect As Your Dog Gets Older
Your dog's body takes a beating throughout his life. Muscles are pulled, joints stressed, and organs scarred by infection. Cell structure breaks down, decreasing the efficacy of organs and tissues. All of these traumas cau...
Aging Dog Care: How To Determine If Your Older Dog Is Sick
You and your dog have been together for many years and have shared many good and bad times. When you were a child, you could tell your parents if something hurt or was not well with you. Even as a baby you could at least cry to indicate that something was wrong. However, our beloved pets cannot...
Aging Dog Care: Signs Your Dog Is Aging
Foul Breath, Plaque, & Gingivitis: All of these are common in old age, especially if you have not taken care to keep your dog's teeth clean throughout her life. Regular dental checkups may be necessary to ensure that any serious problems ar...
Aging Dog Care: Is Your Dog Loosing His Hearing?
One sign of your dog aging which can be very upsetting if you don't fully appreciate what is truly happening, is an increasing inattentiveness and apparent loss of obedience training. When you call to him, your dog seems to be ignoring you, or els...
Aging Dog Care: Does Your Aging Dog Have Lymphosarcoma?
Accounting for better than five percent of all tumors known to occur in the dog, lymphosarcoma is the commonest malignancy seen in aging dogs, especially those in the eight to twelve-year range. Its cause is unknown and is relentlessly fatal, but early diagnosis combined with one or more of the therapy modes just described can comfort...
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Dog and Master Related ArticlesDog Health - Mouth And Tooth Disorders If your dog is showing sings of excessive drooling then it may be caused by a salivary cyst, a periodontal disease, tongue injury, or simply a foreign object. Salivary cysts look like large blisters that occur under the tongue. If your dog has periodontal disease then the cement that holds his teeth in place gets destroyed. Tongue wounds can ... Continue Reading... Dog Health - Anal Sac Problems In Dogs Something that you may not have understood about your dog before are his anal sacs. These two sacs are located in the muscle tissue on either side of the anus at the five and seven o'clock positions. An intensely malodorous secretion, usually brownish and watery in appearance, resides within the sacs. The anal sac fluid, which emerges through two... Continue Reading...
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