Sentences with phrase «causing affected dogs»

Eczema can be extremely itchy, causing affected dogs to lick, bite, chew, scratch and rub at their skin, which leads to weeping sores on their skin.

Elongated soft palate can manifest as anything from a mild condition causing laboured breathing to severe condition that can cause the affected dog to pass out from moderate exercise.

An early onset form of lysosomal storage disease, this can cause affected dogs to display neurologic signs as puppies or young adults.

A form of skeletal dwarfism, this causes affected dogs to have abnormally short legs but a normally sized body due to abnormal fetal skeletal maturation.

However, autoimmune thyroiditis occasionally causes affected dogs to exhibit aggressive behavior.

Elongated soft palate can manifest as anything from a mild condition causing labored breathing to severe condition that can cause the affected dog to pass out from moderate exercise.

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Safety tests of Ace - K found that it causes cancer in rats and strongly affect the thyroid of rats, rabbits, and dogs.

While canine distemper has been known for many years as a problem affecting domestic dogs, the virus has been appearing in new areas and causing disease and mortality in a wide range of wildlife species, including tigers and lions.

The teams» three papers, each on Nordic dogs (Swedish Vallhund and Norwegian Elkhound) and each addressing blinding ocular diseases affecting both dogs and people, identified genes causing retinal disease and glaucoma, which may lead to gene therapies for dogs and humans.

Four collaborating research groups in the United States and France found a way to safely replace the disease - causing MTM gene with a healthy gene throughout the entire musculature of affected dogs.

Safety tests of Ace - K found that it causes cancer in rats and strongly affect the thyroid of rats, rabbits, and dogs.

Researchers have identified the gene mutation that causes NEwS, and a DNA test is now available that allows breeders to avoid producing affected puppies by never breeding two dogs to each other if they are both carriers of the abnormal gene.

A variety of dog eye problems can affect this drainage, causing excessively watery eyes.

This can cause dogs to excessively bite and scratch the affected area, resulting in hair loss — or worse.

One of the most common diseases seen in dogs, with larger breeds being the most affected — ultimately a malfunction of the hip joints causing a loss of function.

Affected dogs may have difficulty getting up, standing, or walking up stairs and attempts to manipulate the hips may cause pain.

Changes in barometric pressure and humidity can affect your dog's senses and possibly even cause discomfort in the ears.

It was established later (Johnson et al, 1980) that the form of the disease found in Bedlingtons terriers was apparently caused by the presence of an autosomal recessive gene in affected dogs - it is a genetic disorder and in order for the condition to develop in a dog / bitch a copy of this defective gene must have been passed to the affected animal by both parents, i.e. the affected dog must have two «copies» of the defective gene in its body cells.

Puppies should have basic protection from diseases that can kill or seriously affect them, but there is increasing evidence that adult dogs not only may not need annual boosters but that jolting the immune system with yearly shots can cause other problems.

Dogs suffering glaucoma due to hereditary causes are more likely to have both eyes affected.

Affected dogs should be confined and isolated while the cause of the abortion or pregnancy loss is determined.

Congenital cataracts — this causes the eye lenses to become opaque, surgery may be necessary as vision is affected, some dogs can become blind.

Pedigrees are evaluated carefully to lessen the risk of doubling up on a carrier and potentially causing a situation that could produce affected dogs.

A warm weather disease that primarily affects dogs confined to the outdoors in the summer and fall, fly strike is most often caused by the common stable fly, however, blackflies, deer flies, and houseflies can also bite.

Almost no information exists concerning the survival time of affected dogs, if they were treated and which treatment had been chosen and at last their cause of death.

This TedxTalk by Rodney Habib does a great job of exploring the correlation of kibble and other processed foods to shortened lifespans in dogs (due to food - caused conditions), and I prefer to let his research speak for itself in regards to the ways in which kibble affects our dogs.

PRA (progressive retinal atropy) is a common cause of blindness that affects several different breeds of dog.

They are also one of the most frequent ophthalmic diseases, as well as a major cause of blindness in dogs, affecting both mixed and pure breeds.

The gene that cause merle coats in dogs can also affect eye color, such as causing ice blue eyes, and can also effect skin pigment.

Demodectic mites mostly affect young dogs by causing moderate itchiness and circular round patches of hair loss.

Most ear problems in dogs and cats primarily affect the outer ear (otitis externa), are relatively easy to diagnose and treat, and cause mild to moderate clinical signs.

A wide range of causes — including external parasites, infections, allergies, metabolic problems and stress, or a combination of these — may be affecting your dog's skin.»

Plants such as clematis and foxglove can affect dogs, cats and horses to cause weakness, heart failure, drooling, and death.

It is contagious and the presence of the mites can cause severeinflammation in affected cat or dog's ears.

They are very contagious among dogs and can cause anemia and blood loss in affected animals.

If canine distemper doesn't kill a dog, its aftermath causes continuous problems for the affected animal.

The mites can live on the skin and some dogs and cats appeartohave infections that affect only the skin, causing small sores to developinaffected areas.

When the kidneys are affected, toxins are allowed to accumulate into the dog's body causing many devastating effects.

As a result of being in distress from being left alone, affected dogs typically develop barrier frustration which causes scratching, digging and chewing mainly aimed at doors, windows and other barriers that keep the dog from being near its owner.

A condition common to medium or large sized dogs that affects the bones in their legs causing a painful limping.

Because eating small amounts of aflatoxins over a period of time will cause cumulative liver damage or cancerous tumors, a very small percentage of affected dogs would be reported,.

Ultimately, a cartilage flap develops causing pain and lameness in affected dogs.

An insulinoma is a tumor of the pancreas that affects the regulation of your dog's sugar levels, causing hypoglycemia, also referred to as low blood sugar.

Gastritis is a digestive disease that can affect dogs and can be caused by several factors; however, proper diet, as well as other factors, will be fundamental

However, veterinarian Dr. John B. Symes believes that gluten can cause acute or chronic kidney failure in dogs, much like how celiac disease can affect humans and the tainted wheat gluten caused widespread illness amongst our four - legged friends.

If your mature or older dog is vomiting and you have eliminated dietary indiscretion as a cause, you should consider metabolic diseases like those affecting the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys and other organs.

Inner ear infections can also cause dizziness and nausea; and certain cancers can affect the brain and inner ear, which can cause your dog to display symptoms that mimic those of idiopathic vestibular disease.

Canine cancer is estimated to affect one in every three dogs and remains one of the leading causes of death in companion animals despite advances in conventional therapies.

Like humans however, wolves and their domestic dog descendants can carry a genetic defect called achondroplasia that causes the affected animal to have disproportionately short legs.

Just as with so many other dogs on this list, Akitas have thick double coats, which make dander and fur cause allergen in the air that can affect pet allergy sufferers of all severities.