Among nonexperienced and skilled dog’s owners there exist many myths. They do not have any basis, but many people accept them as an axiom. In practice, these myths sometimes cause not so small troubles to people and their pers. We offer you to familiarize yourself with some of these myths and with realities, disproving it.

Warm nose is a symptom of an illness.

It is one of the most widespread myths, which gives owners and vets a lot of troubles. Who from skilled dog breeders was not awakened early in the morning by the scream of puppy’s owner: “My dog has a warm nose. What should I do?!!” The answer is simple: you should not do anything. If your dog has a warm nose, the odds are that it simply slept. In the sleep the temperature of a nose rises.

However, if dog’s nose is not only warm, but dry

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Chronic bronchitis.

The cough, also known as infectious tracheobronchitis of dogs, is easily transmitted from one dog to another. It is believed that this illness is caused by some viruses and the bacterium Bordatella Bronchiseptica. Symptoms of the disease are: intermittent dry cough with expectoration from a nose, or without it. Such cough poses a threat to the life of a dog: many dogs make complete recovery in some weeks. However, puppies and small dogs need special care. Any animal with such cough needs to be placed in warm damp conditions and be isolated from other dogs. The veterinary surgeon can prescribe antibiotics. Besides, against some viruses causing cough there are inoculations.

Bronchitis can develop after cough or some respiratory infection. Never rest content if the temperature is usual, but the dog looks bad.

Foreign body in a trachea.
Sideration of strong cough can be caused by something, which got into the trachea.

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Caries is a gradual destruction of tooth tissues beginning from tooth enamel. Unfortunately, dogs suffer from it, quite often. However, sometimes owners confuse caries with dark (brown or yellow) stains on teeth of a dog, not leading to tooth destruction.

Primary cause of caries is a metabolic imbalance.

Caries can appear after an infectious disease. The most destructive effect on teeth has distemper. By the way, because of this, it is not recommended to do an inoculation against distemper during changing of teeth. In the best case there will be yellow stains on teeth, or teeth can start to collapse.

Caries can also appear after parvovirus enteritis, infectious hepatitis and other illnesses accompanied by an exhaustion of a dog, lesion of a liver and kidneys and metabolic imbalance.

Often avitaminosis causes caries. It can be caused by illness or faults in feeding, because of lack of proteins, excess of carbohydrates in a diet of

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Qualitative composition of dog’s food: presence of proteins, carbohydrates, mineral substances, vitamins must be considered. Hypersensibility to one or another substance in a diet is described in medical and veterinary practice. Such allergic reactions as a diarrhea, vomiting, stomachache, eczema, asthma, headaches and even hyperactivity are already learned.

However, allergic reactions to some foodstuffs are not so often in veterinary practice, as in medical one. Almost all allergic reactions boil down to skin manifestations, diarrhoeia and asthmatoid conditions.

Researchers distinguish two big aetiological groups of food allergies: food hypersensitivity (an allergy proper) and food insensibility (inability of an organism to digest some substance).

Clinical displays of a dog’s food allergy are extremely various. This variety is caused by the large number of factors influencing the development of clinical symptoms. The main are inadequate reaction of immune system of an organism to food (which can provoke allergic reaction of the immediate

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Correct housing and feeding is the basis of dog’s health. If the owner wants his cocker spaniel to be healthy, he should not forget about special preventive measures for dogs. So, for example, the whole problem is long ears of a cocker. This prevents ears from ingress of foreign bodies in external ear canal, but it also blocks normal ventilation of an ear, which can cause an inflammation in ears.

In anticipation of an inflammation ears should be cleaned every week, because inflammation arises as a result of accumulation and decomposition of earwax, penetration of parasites and ingress of cold water in an ear. Symptoms are noticeable: dog tosses its head, rubs its ear, an unpleasant smell is in the air. Treatment begins with mechanical removal of discharges by wad of cotton wool. Procedure repeats until cotton wool does not remain pure after using. If the inflammation began, treatment is

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Whatever type of arthritis your dog has, correct diet makes wonders. This diet can be recommended for all dogs with any form of arthritis. Remember that your dog must stick to this diet for the rest of its life. Do not worry, it is not expensive. What you need to do is a few efforts for your dog. It is worth the effort, believe me. The diet will raise the level of health of your dog. You will see how manifestations of arthritis will be reduced.

So, you need:

№1 – your dog should lose weight.
Does your dog have an excess weight? If so, it is necessary to restore normal weight. We consider that making your dog wiry and lean is capitally important. There are a lot of explanations of it from the point of view of physiology. Your dog should not be massive, because it must not give excess load to

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The foundation of your dog’s health is its feeding. By its nature, every dog is a carnivore (dog’s progenitor is a wolf), however it does not mean that it should only eat meat.

One of the main features of a dog is the ability to adapt to life with people, that’s why it can adapt to our food. The main thing is presence in food of all the necessary nutrients.

The basic nutrients, which your dog needs are:
• Proteins
• Fats
• Carbohydrates
• Mineral substances
• Vitamins
• Water

Proteins are irreplaceable components of cells of the dog’s organism. These organic compounds perform some important functions in it. Proteins are needed for growth and recovery of tissues, that’s why puppies and sick dogs need proteins most of all. Proteins are also the energy source, but excess of proteins can also be very harmful, and can cause disorder of work of the liver and kidneys. It is

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