A new city law aims to protect animal lovers from unknowingly buying
a sick dog born in a puppy mill.
Not exact matches
While I would agree that
dogs are not going to be smart enough to seek treatment for GI upset on their own the way we seek ant - acids for indigestion, I believe that on some instinctual level
born of evolution, some
dogs do indeed engage in the eating of grass only when
sick.
As a result, their families
bear the great expense of veterinary treatment for
sick dogs or the terrible anguish of losing a beloved family pet.
Date the jar so you know when the tick was pulled as this can help your veterinarian identify tick -
borne illnesses, should your
dog become
sick at a later date.
The
dog food prescription diet was
born almost 70 years ago when a veterinarian named Mark Morris, Sr. decided to change a
sick dog's diet instead of prescribing medication.The patient had a form of kidney disease, so Mr. Morris simply created a diet that would go easy on the
dog's kidneys.
«If breeders have a
dog that's very
sick or they have a litter that is
born with issues, and the breeder isn't willing to put money into it, they will kill them.
It is important to
bear in mind that
dogs with health issues should not be bred in order to evade future
sick puppies.
The reason these puppies so often end up sickly and mentally disturbed is that no screening of breeding stock is done -
sick, unsound, unstable
dogs are bred to produce more ailments in the next generation; also, puppies
born in mills and then transferred over to petshops do not receive the proper early socialization which may result in behavioral problems later in life.