Pet Care Tips & Veterinary Advice

That startling honking cough in a small dog is often a sign of a collapsed trachea, a condition where the windpipe's soft cartilage rings flatten during breathing instead of holding their round shape. It shows up most in small and toy breeds like Yorkies, Pomeranians, Chihuahuas, and Pugs, and episodes are usually triggered by excitement, pulling against a collar, drinking [...]

Finding a lump on your dog is a special kind of stomach-drop, especially when it’s a lymph node. Swollen lymph nodes are worth taking seriously, but they do not automatically mean cancer. Lymph nodes enlarge as part of a normal immune response to infection, inflammation, or injury, and the location, size, texture, and whether more than one node is affected [...]

Some breeds really are born with facial and eyelid anatomy that makes entropion and ectropion far more likely than in the average dog. The shape of the skull, the depth of the facial folds, and the looseness of the skin around the eye all decide how the lids sit, and certain breeds inherit a setup that pulls a lid inward [...]

Rodent bait is designed to be appealing, and it is, unfortunately, often just as appealing to dogs as it is to the rodents it targets. The tricky thing about most modern rodenticides is that the toxic effects do not appear right away. An anticoagulant rodenticide may take three to five days to produce visible signs of bleeding, by which point [...]

Diarrhea in pets is the kind of symptom that gets dismissed a lot in the early stages: ate something weird, got into the garbage, the usual. And often, that's exactly what it is, a self-limiting disruption that resolves in a day or two without intervention. But sometimes it doesn't. Recurring or persistent diarrhea that returns every few weeks, continues for [...]

Your dog has been throwing up a few times a week for over a month, and you've tried switching foods, feeding smaller meals, and waiting it out, but nothing seems to help. Or your cat has started vomiting after every meal and you're not sure if it's hairballs or something more serious. Chronic vomiting (vomiting that persists beyond two to [...]