Health
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- Choosing a Pet Diet - Page 3
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- No Chocolate for Fido!
- If you're like many pet owners, you probably like to share a little of your food with your dog--but if you're considering giving him some of your Valentine's Day chocolates, think again. Sharing Godiva chocolates with your four-legged friend on Valentine's Day could find you both spending the night at an emergency veterinary clinic. Read on for more on the dangers of mixing canines and chocolate.
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- Coping with Loss Pt. 1: Diagnosis and Care
- Learning that your pet has a terminal illness can be devastating for a family. Working with a veterinarian you trust to confirm the diagnosis is the first step.
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- Coping with Loss Pt. 2: Pet's Passing
- The word euthanasia, meaning good death, makes people wince. Ending a pet's life is a difficult and personal choice. Families caring for a suffering pet can get help in deciding whether and when to make this choice, and support afterwards.
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- Coping with Loss Pt. 3: Recovery and Grieving
- Grieving and recovery from the loss of a pet applies to the entire family: adults, children and other pets. "A pet's death hurts so much because pets are a source of unconditional love and appreciation. When a pet dies, we lose a part of ourselves," says Enid Traisman,M.S.W., C.T, C.F.S., and Director, DoveLewis Pet Loss Support Group.
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- Taking the Labor out of Pet Pregnancies
- Unless they are breeders, most people spay or neuter their pets to avoid pregnancy. But if they wait too long, or miscalculate a pet's age, they might be faced with a pregnant pet. Taking the proper steps during a pregnancy will make the situation less stressful for owners and pets alike. Read on for tips on caring for your pregnant pet.
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- Canine Vaccinations: A Shot in the Bark
- Getting annual boosters for your dog is just part of being a good owner, right? Well, some veterinary scientists asked why dogs have annual boosters when people's vaccines lasted a lifetime, and new research has shown surprising results! Read on to learn about the latest studies and find out how often your dog really needs his booster shots.
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- Pets with Disabilities Series: Blind Pets
- Most happy pet owners struggle with housetraining the dog, or keeping the cat from scratching the couch. It is easy to take for granted the things that they can do, like hearing or seeing, while correcting or learning to endure the things they cannot, namely obeying a few basic commands.
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- Pets with Disabilities Series: Deaf Pets
- When you stop and consider how similar animals are to humans, their capacity for love, their ingenuity (usually when food is involved), their survival instincts and intuition about people, it should come as no surprise that in the face of adapting to a challenge like hearing loss or deafness in an animal, one of our greatest resources for understanding their new needs and recognizing the extent of their capabilities lies in the fundamental realities of life as a deaf adult, who can see, move, think, love, laugh and thrive as well as anyone else.
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- Pets with Disabilities Series: 2- or 3-legged Pets
- Pet owners fondly refer to their animals as their four-legged friends, but sometimes they come with only two or three functioning limbs. Sometimes animals start out with four, and then accident or illness results in paralysis or sufficient damage to render some of the legs useless.
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- Feline Sense Series: All Ears
- Okay, face it . . . cats are cute and those little triangular ears perched atop their heads are merely icing on the furry cake. But those ears are not just pretty decorations; they are a powerful set of investigative tools used by felines to hear what humans would find unimaginable. They can hear extremely high as well as extremely low frequencies. In other words, in the art of hearing, a cat's ears are an astonishing machine.
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- Feline Sense Series: Touchy Feely
- Whenever you touch your cat, you may not realize that the skin underneath all that fur is quite sensitive. And the fur that covers kitty is specialized sensory hairs. Researchers have not figured out much regarding how the hairs on kitty's body are used except for the whiskers - who many people do not even realize constitutes itself as a type of hair on felines.
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- Feline Sense Series: A Matter of Taste
- This is to test the home page DL section - Don't forget to feed your cats!
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- Feline Sense Series: Nosing Around
- For the felis catus - the scientific name for domesticated or house cats - all of the feline senses are rather acute, but their sense of smell is perhaps its main source for identifying individuals, objects and prey in its surroundings. Read on to learn more about how your cat's sense of smell impacts their day to day world.
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- Feline Sense Series: Anatomy of a Cat Eye
- It's a myth that cats can see in complete darkness. The part of the feline's retina called the "tapetum lucidum," acts like a reflector in the eye and bounces light to the back of the retina, thus the appearance of "glowing" eyes which a cat exhibits at night when their eyes are struck with a beam of light, such as car headlights.
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- Is It Time to Say Goodbye?
- Living with a pet can be wonderful - except for the fact that generally we live longer than our canine companions do. That, plus our ability to end our pets' suffering through humane euthanasia, puts enormous power into our hands: the power of life or death over our companion animals. Having that power is an enormous responsibility - a responsibility that any loving owner wants to live up to.
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