Puppy with growing pains
My puppy (6mo male Lab/Shepheard mix) has growing pains (vet says). Sore joints in front & back legs. Vet has given shots, no help. Any ideas what to do. Heard change of diet might help – change to what food??? Poor pup limps badly after running.
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Dog with recurrent hives
My dog (11yo female neutered Labrador) has been on prednisone(2.5-5mg)day for 8 yrs.for allergies(itch).9 days ago developed bad hives on face and body after routine vaccines(aug.9) and extremem itch- 1st time ever).I assumed it was a reaction to shots and treated with benadryl(with a vet’s advice). 5 days later happened again though,(aug 15) and has lasted for four days but I had changed her brand of food that day(Aug 15)(still lamb and rice formula though). My gut says it’s the food but is is just a coincidence that it happend also before the food change due to vaccines? I’m so confused – benadryl helps but head keeps getting hives – body too. My vet says usually vaccine reaction would have under 1 hour after and she was 3 hrs so unlikely from the vaccines. She is so swollen until I medicate her – then hives subside till next day. Nothing else new in her life.Should I go back to previous food? This happend one other time two years ago – we guessed then it was our lawn sprayed for weeds or an insect bite but that time it cleared up after two days. Now has been 4 days. Please help!
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Cat with torn claws
Last night Oliver (our 5yo DSH male neutered cat) was spooked by our other cat Samantha (who got stuck in a bag). He was so scared by this, that he dug his back-claws into the carpet and forgot to release them and took off running (fronts have been declawed), tearing 4 of them out and damaging the rest of them. It was very bloody and took us a while to get the bleeding to stop. We put him on a blanket and let him lay there all night till he cleaned up his feet and they stopped bleeding. We did try wrapping them in guaze, but he kept getting them off. This morning we soked his feet for 5 minutes in Benatine & warm water and we will continue to do so 2x a day for 5 days or until they look ok.
Are we doing what we should for him?
What else should we do?
Will these 4 claws grow back?
Will the others fall out?
We are trying to avoid a trip to the vet as he gets so tramatized by that. He really is the poster-child for SCAREDY CAT!
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