World Wide Whiskers

The following article is important because allergies and skin problems are daily bread in the clinic for dogs and cats. Not incidentally, more than a third of adveras reactions to food develop during the first year of life. In addition, food allergies are the third leading cause of skin disease in dogs after hypersensitivity allergy to flea bites and atopy.

Adverse food reactions are the body’s reactive responses to different foods. These reactions can be immune or not. The former are called “food allergies” or “food hypersensitivity” and only they can be considered as such if and only if there is an immunologic mechanism involved. Read the rest of this entry »

Signs of aging

As decreases the ability to regenerate tissues, and are very slight wounds may take longer to heal than before, and reduced ability to fight infections and even increase the incidence of diseases like cancer.

The first signs that your dog is reaching old age are the graying, mainly in his mouth and his legs, the hair is thinner, like his skin, calluses are formed mainly on the elbows, chest and thighs from rubbing hard surfaces, your muscle mass will be decreased and thus their movements become slower and less agile, especially large breeds. Read the rest of this entry »

There are factors involved in the aging process such as:

Nutrition for older dogs:

Obesity is a factor that reduces life expectancy in dogs, which at this stage is increased by an accumulation of fat due to a reduction in digestive capacity of the dog. The lack or decreased exercise performed also contributes to this obesity.

Loss of appetite and therefore weight either dental problems or illness is also a factor in aging due to reduced supply of nutrients, since the cells lose the ability to regenerate and fulfill their normal functions . Read the rest of this entry »

In general, coprophagia is a habit that annoys owners. The most critical is the possibility of ingesting internal parasites. Usually this happens if the dog eats the feces of infected dogs or unknown wild animal feces. Desparasitando often animals will avoid the risk of internal parasites. In addition to internal parasites can be transmitted other agencies such as Toxoplasma present in some cat feces. This can cause the dog a variety of problems. Try to keep the dog away from cat feces as much as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Digestive enzymes: Some people add enzymes to the diet of an animal coprophagic. The suspicion is that these enzymes perform poorly in the animal and is considered to ingest their feces to get a proper input of nutrients. There are some reports that these treatments work well.

Forbid or the like: This is a powder supplement added to dog food. It is thought that this makes the stool have ugly taste for dog coprophagic. Efficacy has not been demonstrated definitively. On the other hand this can only be given to dogs with autocoprofagia or intraspecific coprophagia.

Taste aversion: This is the most common treatment for coprophagia. Owners are advised to put something like a very hot sauce in the feces of their dogs. Earlier this substance must have been smelled by the animal and placed in his mouth, which teaches the association between a particular odor and taste “terrible”. To be effective, must be used 100% of the time in order to improve this behavior. Each stool must have hot sauce or other noxious tasting element on it. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeking attention: When the dog engages in coprophagia, their owner tends to reprimand them and, therefore, pay attention. This may be a sequel to a medical condition that brought about the coprophagia initially and now that the medical condition is resolved, the animal continues to engage in coprophagia to receive attention from the owner. This is unlikely in well-treated animals.

Allelomimetic behavior: The dog observes the owner picking feces and learns from them to lift the stool.

Wise behavior: The dog observes other dogs that make Coprophagia and mimics the activity and develops the learning of other dogs in the house or neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry »

Coprophagia in dogs is defined as the consumption of excrement / feces by an animal and is a common complaint of pet owners. There is little research on coprophagia. This study provides information on the incidence of behavior in the dog population, the age of onset, age of disappearance, and other information crucial to study this behavior.

Causes of Coprophagia proposals in dogs

Coprophagia may be due to various medical problems such as pancreatic insufficiency, pancreatitis, intestinal infections, malabsorption syndrome, and excess food (meals too fat). However, in most of these conditions, along with other signals Coprophagia be present, particularly diarrhea. Coprophagia is usually only a small aspect of these medical conditions. Read the rest of this entry »

Understanding dog behavior is important before reaching any conclusions about the reasons behind certain types of behavior.

Many humans feel offended at certain things and resort to aggression, dogs also respond similarly. Certain foods are not adapted to humans, there are many foods that should not be fed to dogs, but like humans, natural remedies are a safe and healthy alternative.

If you continue feeding your dog a diet that irritate your system, it will be required to demonstrate their anger at their behavior. Persistent feeding an inadequate diet, ultimately leads to aggressive dog behavior. Natural remedies for pets can help with digestion problems, but not the best solution. Read the rest of this entry »

The Dutch domestic fish will find it easier this year for vacation, because they can stay for free to your pets in a “hotel” for fish in the Amsterdam-Schiphol airport.

Under the slogan “Catch the best fish,” Dutch travel agency “D-Reizen” opened this hotel – accommodation for its passengers fish. The slogan (though it may seem otherwise) is intended that with this tour company produces the best prices. Read the rest of this entry »

Hamsters are delicate animals than they appear and are subject to various diseases caused by the surrounding environment as dust mites, these are external parasites that can cause skin problems of the pet, such as itching, redness, discharge from the ear, hair loss. It can also bring mycosis alopecia and excessive grooming.

Something as simple as a cold can cause pneumonia in a hamster, if not complicated pneumonia, lasted less than a week and symptoms such as fever, ear infections, sneezing, runny nose and abundant. This disease can have complications from bacterial infections, in a case like this should bring your pet to a veterinary practice. Read the rest of this entry »