If your veterinarian’s practice is accredited by AAHA, you can rest assured that its standard of care helps to ensure your pet won’t catch any surprises while visiting the clinic.
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Diabetes is an endocrine (glandular) disorder in which animals either do not produce insulin or are unable to respond to its effects. As a result, there is too much sugar in the bloodstream, which can damage the kidneys, eyes, skin, and cardiovascular and nervous systems.
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Heartworms live in cats’ lungs, not their hearts. But don’t be fooled. Just a few worms can prove deadly to your cat—and indoor cats are at risk! The good news: You can easily protect your cat with a year-round broad-spectrum preventive.
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Have you wondered if your dog or cat has diabetes? If your pet is excessively thirsty, has an increased appetite (but is losing weight) and is urinating frequently, it may be diabetic. Learn more about the early warning signs of diabetes, the complications that can arise, and how veterinarians test dogs and cats for the disease. Diabetes is a treatable disease, but early detection is key to helping maintain your pet’s good health.
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Euthanizing a pet is never easy, but a recent upswing in in-home euthanasia is making the process less painful for pet owners and their beloved companions.
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Most people know that wild animals can give rabies to people, but what they may not realize is that pets like cats, dogs and birds can pass diseases to people. That may sound scary, but prevention isn’t all that hard. Here’s what to know about keeping pets and people safe from each other.
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Heartworms—can you imagine actually having worms in your heart? Not a pleasant thought, but that’s exactly where they are. Heartworm disease is one of the major health problems affecting dogs in the United States, and it is now being found in cats. The disease develops when a pet becomes infected with parasites transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito.
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Pets age at a much faster rate than people. So when you think about how important it is for us to be seen regularly by a doctor, it’s even more important for our pets—especially if they are on medication. Pets age five to seven times faster than we do. This makes having your pet examined at least once a year or more frequently before having prescriptions refilled the logical and right thing to do.
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Rabies! It’s a potent word that demands an exclamation mark.
Our reactions are primal, colored by myths, modern movies and novels such as“Rage,” “Cujo,” “Old Yeller” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” You may have heard the popular warning: Beware of bats or raccoons in the daytime. They carry rabies!
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Did you know dogs and cats can develop diabetes? When a pet is diabetic, it means it lacks the hormone insulin or is unable to use the insulin it has. Without insulin, the pet’s body can’t transport glucose (blood sugar) to cells where it is needed. When this happens, the cells begin to look for new sources of energy, and problems develop. Learn more about the disease and what types of pets are more likely to develop diabetes.
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Von Willebrand disease is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in dogs. The disease rarely occurs in cats.
Dogs with this disease cannot clot blood normally, which results in bleeding, especially after surgery or trauma. While this disease has occurred in more than 50 different dog breeds, the breeds most commonly affected include Doberman pinschers, German shepherds, golden retrievers, poodles, Shetland sheepdogs, Pembroke Welsh Corgis and the German Shorthaired Pointer.
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