Dog has REALLY bad gas, what to do?
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Comments (1)To really know if she has a fever, you need to take her temperature. Their normal temp is about 101 degrees. Dogs noses can be dry and warm for many reasons. When you put the therometer in, don't insert it in any more than 1 inch. My vet told me I could get a good reading, if the dog was still by putting it in between 1/2 and 3/4 of an inch....See MoreHas anyone designed a really attractive dog crate.
Comments (7)The very cute ones I have seen were home made. Had wire across the open spaces, with a fake front that looks like a set of drawers or a door. Some looked like an endtable, some looked like a small drawered chest. Cutouts on the sides and back for air movement. Some like fake little barns or church, one side swung shut. Actually an ornamental piece standing alone. We just have the wire crate standing in the room on one wall. Large puppy, cage enables her to stay contained yet part of the family with folks walking thru the house. Everyone going by scratches her face leaning on the wire many times a day or evening. Talks to her, maybe a snack of food passed inside. She is improving in manners, getting more obedient, but probably won't be free of the cage for several months yet. TOO enthusiastic, just BOUNCES when excited, no self control yet. Sure like her though, very nice girl, still young minded for her large size. She does spend most of the day outside if above 10F. Big yard and squirrels to chase! Maybe you could have a local carpenter make something to fit in the space you have? How about a copy of a circus wagon? Cage design, with open features you could have wire inside of. Squarish, for a nice door, flat top usable for a table. Could be large or small, painted to fit in a room or be an attention item in the space. Not too oddly shaped for a basic carpenter maker. Good Luck hunting....See MoreTiny Dogs: Do Some Really NOT Know When They Need To GO?
Comments (23)That may be the difference, I have never had a purebred before adopting this supposedly 11 year old, Mini Dashchund! All have been mutts. The sensitive digestive system may come with the limited genetic diversity. I know that my genetic disorder has affected my GI system terribly and am very happy to say I have not passed it on by having children. In your breed, this may just be something you have to deal with. The Dalmatian AKC Club has FINALLY allowed the dogs bred by Dr. Robert Schaible to be included in breed registrations. In the 1970s he bred a single Pointer to a Dalmatian. He did that because all Dals carry a gene for urinary blockages that primarily affect the males. No Dalmatians anywhere were found that had the version of that gene that would produce low acidity in their urine, which would make them free of this disorder. If no Dal had the gene for low acidity, then all Dals would continue to suffer from this disorder. Dr. Schaible figured that if he could out-breed a Dal to a Pointer - a breed of dog that was used to build the Dalmatian breed originally - maybe he could re-introduce the good low-acidic gene back into the Dalmatian breed. He was successful. That one Pointer back in the 1970s passed a gene for low-acidic urine to his puppies. Those puppies have been bred only to pure Dalmatians. For ten generations, these dogs have been bred only to registered Dalmatians, and it took until 2011 for the AKC Dalmatian breed club to allow them to be registered as Dalmatians. These are the only Dals with the gene for low acidic urine and, therefore, do not get urinary blockages. Because the high acidic gene is recessive, some of the Dalmatians in this project DO have the "bad" gene, but NO Dals that were not born from that out-bred experiment have low acidic urine. Here is a nice discussion about how and when the breeds were formed and why out-crossing was a valid way of solving this problem in this breed. http://www.dalmatianheritage.com/about/nash_research.htm For some reason, the dog fancy world has narrowed their idea of what a breed is to exclude the possibility of bringing in beneficial genes by out-breeding to a closely-related breed of dog, or even to a breed that helped to establish that breed. Sometimes, for some breeds, getting that genetic diversity could really help. I have no idea, of course, if this has anything at all to do with your dog's need to stay with one food. Maybe I wish some ancestors of mine had not passed on my connective tissue disorder that makes MY digestive system so sensitive!...See MoreElly_NJ
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