Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / April 2005

Over the last two week or so the normally pink tummy skin of my puppy (5
month old toy poodle) has begun to darken considerably.  While he spends
some time licking it, it doesn't seem like too much time (though this is our
first dog, so it's a bit unclear).  Further he doesn't ...

Yesterday I got a kitten, about 2 months old. Physically he's fine, but
we're having some "adjustment problems". Yesterday he didn't make a sound,
wasn't crying, wasn't afraid, and acted very normal for such a small kitten.
But here's the problem. I have quite a large garden, so ...

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   Today I was given an order to open up a guinea pig, because the
diagnosis of ileus.As a young doctor, I sometimes have to do what I am told,
without asking too many questions :-).I was only given an information that
gp didn't eat and didn't defecate for three days. Anyway, I ...

I took in a very pregnant "foster" cat in. She is about 2 years old. We
named her Sadie. She was found outside, someone was feeding her, and she had
a flea collar embedded in her neck! it was so tight, we almost had to have a
vet remove it. Isn't that sad!! Well she's really ...

Historically I have been a large dog owner, and I never had to have their
teeth cleaned. My current dog is a 10 lb poodle mix. (I got her from a
rescue as an adult dog). She needs a cleaning once a year because the plaque
builds up in a major way, even though I feed her dry food. ...

2 of my furbabies are going in for teeth cleaning for which the vet puts them out.  They
are like 3 years old.  I have a 4 and a 11 year old that also need to be done.
Dr. Tina, their vet, (http://vethealthcenter.com/) recommended Friskies Dental dry catfood
mixed like 1/2 - 1/2 ...

I have a written perscription from my vet can anyone recomend a
reliable and trustworthy online company to purchase from. I just dont
want to buy bad medicine! Thank you

I figured I'd see if I could poke around and get some ideas of what may be
going on with our 10 year old Dalmatian, but soon found myself unable on
google to come up with anything worthwhile to describe.
So we've been noticing that our 10 year old Dalmatian has been breathing

I'm new here, so I hope this topic is of interest.
I've been accepted to veterinary technician/technology programs at 3
different Ontario colleges (Seneca, Ridgetown and St. Lawrence) and I'm
wondering if any of you know anything about the academic differences

my friend's cat had big nodes. Her local vet took them away and sent
them for analyze. They think it is "GIANT CELL TUMOR OF SOFT PARTS".
After less than a month, the nodes are back, quite small but slowly
growing and spreading. The vet is a bit confused and doesn't really

Hi......new to this group......and I am hoping someone could give us some
advice or maybe just an opinion.....my wife and I had our cat Tess(14
yrs),to the vets on monday,because she started drooling,and was not eating
well.....she is very finicky to begin with....but this was ...

Hi, i was wondering if anyone here any type of info or help.
  I have a 8 year old tabby cat(think garfield but dumber) who has been
diangnosed with Mega(meca?) Colon, its been causing some sever blockage,
cat cannot seem to take a dump to say his life. Vet has prescribed

Occaisionally my dog would start snorting, like she was trying to clear out
her nasal passage. It happened infrequently but frequently enough to cause
me a bit of concern. Usually it would happen when she was eating, I think
because she bolts her food down very quickly. I mentioned ...

Hi!  I just found this group and was wondering if anyone here has any
experience with canine asthma and/or chronic tracheobronchitis.  I have a
chihuahua (his name is Chico) and he has been suffering from an unrelenting
coughing heave, which is largely unproductive.  The only truly ...