Can’t Pay for Your Pet’s Care? These 12 Programs Can Help #1 – IMOM This all-volunteer 501(c)(3) charity helps people cover vet bills when they just can’t do it themselves. Also, they can help with spay/neutering and have a staff [...]

 Simple Steps to Boost Your Dog’s Immune System Keep your pup clean We all know how important proper hygiene is for our health. This applies to dogs too. Of course, dogs’ bodies have a different way of dealing with unclean things – [...]

 Most Common Poisons That Affect Cats What are the most common cat poisons—do you know? Back in 2006, an article published in Veterinary Medicine reported "The 10 most common toxicoses in cats" based on the 10 most common feline poisons reported to [...]

Hair loss is a common problem for canines. Sometimes, hair loss is restricted to a relatively small area, but it can also occur all over your pet’s body. Likewise, hair loss can be the result of a relatively minor ailment, [...]

  All dogs not protected with flea and tick medicine are considered susceptible to tick-borne diseases, which are passed on to pets through tick bites. How Tick Diseases in Dogs Work When a tick attaches to your pet to feed [...]

Hang on, did your dog just wink at you? Unusual winking, blinking, rubbing, or pawing at the eyes is your pet's way of telling you there may be something wrong. Eye infections in dogs are common and serious, and you [...]

 Talk to Your Vet About Your Diabetic Dog’s Diet When your dog is first diagnosed with diabetes, the first thing you should do is talk to your vet about the dog’s diet. Depending on your pet's current state of health, [...]

Cancer-Causing Dog Products and Household Supplies Aflatoxin Aflatoxins are well-known carcinogens, poisonous to dogs and humans. They're produced by a fungi that grows in soil, and are used in commercially produced corn, peanuts and cottonseeds (18). While it has been [...]

Help Your Dog Live Longer by Avoiding These Things Letting your dog gain too much weight According to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention, an estimated 53 percent of dogs were overweight last year. In addition to that, the association found [...]

Cat Pain: What We Know Veterinarians have come a long way in understanding pain in pets. With that understanding comes the knowledge that we are very likely undertreating pets for pain they are commonly experiencing. Arthritis, dental disease, urinary tract disease, [...]

Lymphoma is a blood borne cancer of a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte. Dogs can develop several different forms of lymphoma, with the most common presentation showing enlargement of external lymph nodes. Other manifestations include cutaneous lymphoma [...]

Hepatitis in Dogs: Hepatitis in dogs is a medical condition that is mainly characterized and identified by continuous inflammation of a dog’s liver. The infection is related to a buildup of inflammatory cells within the liver when there has been [...]

What to Do If a Dog Eats Rat Poison Rat or mouse poison is a very common substance used for getting rid of rodents in homes or backyards. It is very efficient in killing rats, but also in poisoning or ultimately [...]

What is dog Epilepsy? Epilepsy is the most common medical neurological disorder in dogs. The term epilepsy refers to recurrent seizures resulting from an abnormality in brain function. Seizure description is the most critical information needed for the diagnosis of [...]

Gingivitis in Dogs: Science-based Prevention and Treatment Gingivitis is an oral health issue that causes inflamed and sometimes bleeding gums. Gingivitis in dogs is one of the most common diseases, with a estimated prevalence being around 50–70% (Harvey, et al. [...]

When to Clean a Dog’s Ears Some dogs naturally have healthy, clean ears and may almost never need to have their ears cleaned, while other dogs require regular ear cleaning to prevent the buildup of dirt that can lead to [...]