IMHA: Four Letters You Never Want your Dog or Cat to Meet

Your pet's immune system is an intricate machine with dozens of types of cells and hundreds of chemical messengers that allow it to determine what to fight off. ...

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Vomiting or Regurgitation in Dogs and Cats?

Vomiting is when the contents of the stomach and upper intestine are forcefully ejected; regurgitation occurs when contents of the mouth, pharynx, or esophagus ...

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Pilling Your Pet: Let the Pills Go in, Let Healing Begin!

I have a secret fear that most of what I do is futile.I don’t mean that in an existential way, as in the sun will explode in 6 billion years, so why bother? I ...

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Degenerative Valve Disease Affects Hearts of Dogs and Cats: You are being redirected to updated information on this topic.

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Why Do I keep You? Let me Count the Ways

It goes without saying that no matter whether we consider ourselves a pet parent, owner, guardian, or BFF, there are times (few or many, depending) when we hav ...

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What if? Communicating CPR Status

Sometimes the unthinkable happens, and if it’s your pet you’d want the medical team caring for them to be prepared for it. You’d also want them to know your wi ...

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