It's important for every dog owner to recognize dog health problems and symptoms as your furry pal relies on you to be his or her "first responder" when they have a problem. You can tell when they aren't feeling all that well but do you in fact know what to do? Listed below are the symptoms for some base dog health problems ranging from the daily to the very serious.
Dog Diarrhea
The symptoms of this health are pretty obvious. Your canine buddy is probably going to express some pain when defecating because that strain is just magnifying the pain in his stomach. The stool will be runny and may be an abnormal color. The odor will be more intense.
Diarrhea in dogs is quite base thanks to a dog's complete lack of discrimination in what he eats. If it smells okay and doesn't hurt his mouth then it is possible food. As a supervene they eat stuff that makes them sick.
Symptoms Of Lyme Disease In Dogs
Lyme disease is a bacterium known as Borrelia which is transmitted to your dog through a tick bite. Unfortunately, there are no symptoms until weeks after the infection and when they do show they are often mistaken for other ailments.
The most base symptom is one that appears to be arthritis. Joints and lymph glands can become swollen production it very painful for the dog to walk or even get comfortable laying down. Your pal will become listless, may refuse to eat because the effort hurts too much, and may revert to using the inside of the house as his bathroom rather than going outside.
The giveaway that this is Lyme's and not arthritis is that the affected limbs will change. When arthritis develops it doesn't move around. With Lyme's disease one side of your dog can be affected one week and then suddenly it heals and the other side is affected.
Symptoms of Distemper
Distemper is an airborne virus that is highly contagious and affects the dog's respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems. Distemper will first show itself with cold like symptoms with watery eyes, runny nose, a cough and sometimes diarrhea. Later in the improvement of the disease the dog will suffer from disorientation, twitching and even convulsions. Unfortunately there is no effective rehabilitation for this disease.
Symptoms of Ear Infections
These infections are fairly base particularly with dogs that have heavy earflap like Bassets and Dachshunds. The infection is caused by bacteria or yeast that appear when there is a convert in the dog's ear like an infestation of ticks or mites. Symptoms of an ear infection consist of the shaking of the head, a pawing of the ears, pain and a foul odor advent from the ears.
Of policy there are many more ailments that can influence your canine friend but the thing to remember is prevention. It's in fact not so dissimilar from taking care of a kid. Keep their shots up to date, keep them well fed and clean and supply clean bedding. Parasites cause most of the problems and if you can limit your dog's exposure to strange dogs you are limiting the possibility of exposure to disease. If you notice dog health problems that do not go away after a few days, take your pal to the vet.
