Gastropexy is a highly effective procedure that significantly decreases the likelihood of your pet developing gastric dilatation and volvulus.
How often should you bathe your dog? And what products should you use? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Heartworms are parasitic roundworms that spread through mosquito bites. Left untreated, it can result in major organ failure and death. Heartworm disease is very common, and pets should be on medication to prevent infection.
Housetraining a puppy requires time, vigilance, patience, and commitment. Following the procedures outlined below, you can minimize house soiling incidents.
While there are many reasons for a diet change, there are a few basic rules to make the process as easy and painless as possible.
Humeral fracture repair surgery is a surgical procedure performed to treat fractures or breaks in the humerus bone, which is the long bone located in the upper part or your pet’s front leg.
An inguinal hernia is a protrusion of organs or tissues through the inguinal canal. Left untreated, an inguinal hernia can grow and cause blood flow to be cut off to essential organs and abdominal contents. This can be painful and deadly.
Animals that live in groups, like dogs, establish relationships, through which the individuals involved interact and live together. These relationships also take time to build, so proper introductions are important to help the dogs adjust to one another and start to build on their relationship.
By staying informed, minimizing outdoor exposure, creating a safe indoor environment, and prioritizing your pet's well-being, you can help protect them from the harmful effects of wildfire smoke.
Leg amputation surgery can improve the quality of life for many pets who are in pain and are unable to use the affected leg.
Cats tend to have surface and location preferences for where, and on what, they like to eliminate. Most cats prefer a loose, sandy substance, which is why they will use a litter box.
Masses require surgical removal when they cause pain, impact your pet’s health and ability to function, or are cancerous.
Nasal fold resection surgery decreases the skin folds (wrinkles) around your dog’s nose to decrease incidence of skin infections and/or rubbing of hairy skin against the eyes.
The goals of working with this normal puppy behavior are to redirect your puppy’s desire to put something in her mouth onto acceptable chew toys and to teach her to be gentle when a hand is in her mouth.
It’s perfectly normal and reasonable for dogs to bark from time to time, just as children make noise when they play outside. However, continual barking for long periods of time is a sign that your dog has a problem that needs to be addressed.
A perineal hernia occurs when these muscles weaken, allowing the pelvic and abdominal organs to protrude or bulge in the region around the anus
Perineal urethrostomy is performed to prevent a urethral blockage so that your cat can pass urine and avoid the life-threatening emergency of urethral obstruction.
An abdominal hernia occurs when your pet’s abdominal contents push through a hole in the abdominal wall muscles.
