Dog Care and Nutrition: How to Raise a Healthy Dog

Your dog depends on you for all his nutritional requirements. Proper nutrition is essential for a healthy pet to help resist disease and illness, to maintain a lean, healthy weight, and to give your furry friend a shiny coat.

Each dog is different, and your dog’s lifestyle (active or sedentary? young or old? hunting dog? racing dog? lap dog? healthy? pregnant?) is the main factor in determining his individual nutritional requirements.

When to feed your dog is an important first question. Puppies need lots of calories every day because they are growing so quickly. It’s best to feed puppies small meals several times a day at first. Most adult dogs only need to eat once a day to sustain their energy and nutrient levels. If you work all day and no one is home with your dog, it’s probably best to feed him in the evening, so you’ll be able to let him out after he eats. But a morning feeding schedule is fine if someone is home with your dog during the day. Whatever time of day you choose to feed your dog, there are six basic nutrients that he must eat every day to balance his particular needs: water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins.

Water is key. Your new best friend needs plenty of fresh water daily…it is one of the most important things you can provide your dog. While a dog can go without food for a while, he will quickly dehydrate without water. This is especially important during the summer months when your dog is outside in the heat. We can’t stress enough how important it is to ALWAYS have a fresh bowl of water available for your dog. (A medium size dogs requires aout two quarts of water each day!) If your dog is a normal, active, healthy dog, he only needs a small amount of protein daily. However, young and active dogs need more protein for growth, and older active dogs need more protein as well. The proteins you feed your dog need to come from an animal source.

Carbohydrates help provide your dog with energy, as well as help keep the intestines functioning properly. Most commercial dog foods use corn as their source of carbohydrates. As important as carbs are, however, they should make up no more than about 50% of Fido’s diet.
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Health Benefits of Pets

Caring for a pet has magical powers
for human health and wellbeing.
Pets are an important source of love and friendship
for millions of people and they are also great for
our health.
There is increasing scientific evidence that pets can
help to keep us fit and well. Pets can even help speed
up recovery after major illness.
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Hazardous to Your Pet’s Health

Your pets rely on you to protect them from harm. In general, you should only feed your
pets food and treats specially formulated for the type of pet that you have. Some human
food and drink can make animals sick, so keep them out of your pets’ reach. Here are
some examples:

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Interesting toys to Entertain a Lonely/Depressed/Bored Dog

When you are away on a trip, do you leave your pet at home? Are you gone for long periods during the day for work or play? If so, have you ever come home to find some of your things (couch, clothes, walls, etc) torn up and you just don’t know why? I mean, you left a plush dog toy, food, water, and even went as far as to leave the television or radio on. So, why did your pet act up? Well, maybe you just didn’t leave the right dog chew toy for your pooch to play with while you were away.

Finding interesting dog chew toys to keep your dog entertained or happy while you are away can be a challenge. But, it is not impossible. There are actually some great dog chew toys and plush dog toys that are on the market today that can help any pooch that is lonely or spends any time away from you. It all depends on the breed and the age of your pet as to which dog chew toy or plush dog toy is right to keep your “other” child happy.
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Trematodes and Nematodes in Fish

Trematodes and Nematodes in Fish (Flukes and Internal Round Worms); basics, Identification, and treatment in aquarium and pond fish.

TREMATODES:

The trematodes belong to the Animal Kingdom Phylum Platyhelminthes, the flatworms and are commonly referred to as flukes. Trematodes usually have flattened bodies, a primitive digestive system, suckers for attachment to their hosts, and are hermaphrodites (an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs). The Monogenea are the class ectoparasites that infect fish.

Internal Trematodes:

Internal Flukes generally use intermediate hosts such as snails or other mollusks. The eggs must get into water in order to hatch and be able to infect their first host, a freshwater snail. The fluke develops in the snail and then burrows out to seek the second host which is a freshwater fish. Many species of snail and fish may carry these internal flukes.

Gill Flukes:

Gill flukes (Dactylogyrus) will appear on the gill filaments as tiny dark spots 0.04-0.08in (1-2mm) long. Gill flukes can infect freshwater and saltwater fish and are found on fish from the wild as well as farmed fish. These parasites attach to the gills of the fish and feed on mucus, epithelial cells (cells that line the inside of gills and perform the tasks of secretion, absorption, protection, and transcellular transport), and blood from the host, much of this material being produced by the fish in response to the physical injury caused by the parasites. Damage is physical and inflammatory, with secondary bacterial infections such as septicemia. Small or weak fish may die from the stress of acute infestations.

Common carriers of gill flukes include: Plecostomus, Otocinclus, Corydoras, Koi, Discus, Characins, livebearers (Poeciliidae), some tetras (Characins) and Barbs (Cyprinidae), and Elephant Nose (Gnathonemus petersi).

NEMATODES:

Also known as Roundworms are a very common phyla of animals of which there are many parasitic forms. Nematodes are one of the simplest animal groups to have a complete digestive system, with a separate orifice for food intake and waste excretion unlike the Trematodes mentioned above. Reproduction is usually sexual and males are usually smaller than females. Parasitic Nematodes can have quite complicated life cycles, moving between several different hosts or even locations in the host’s body.
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Learn The 4 Factors That Determine What You Should Feed Your Dog

When you feed your dog, be sure to take the following 4 factors into consideration:

- the size of your dog

- how active your dog is

- the life stage of your dog

- your dog’s health conditions

If you don’t take into account all of the above, you can be setting your dog up for a major crash that you could surely avoid by being smart and attentive to your dogs needs.

A lot of dog owners are not concerned with the food they feed their dogs. Most of the times they buy cheap foods that have little nutritional value. To make matters worse, sometimes they even give “people” foods to their dogs, which is terrible for their health.

When your dog is fed all of these substandard foods, they are set up for all kinds of sickness. Your dog can become lethargic and lack energy. They can be listless and stop being frisky. You might think your dog is tired, so resting more when in fact your dog could be sick. It is so important that you feed your dog right if you want your dog to be healthy.
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Dog Bite Prevention Tips Free ebook

Do not scream. This may excite the dog even more.

Do not throw things at the dog. This may make him mad and more likely to try and bite you.

Do not run. The dog may chase you.

Do not turn your back on the dog.

Remain motionless. Keep your hands and arms at your side with your hands tucked into fists.

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Heartworms, heartworm disease and heartworm treatment in dogs

Heartworm transmission

Adult  heartworms, about six inches long, live in the heart and large blood vessels.  The adult male and female worms  produce thousands of microscopic baby worms.  These baby heartworms do not grow up in the dog where they were born.   (If they did, the dog would immediately die and that would be the end of the heartworms.)  Before baby worms can  develop further, they must be inside a mosquito.

Next, a mosquito comes along and bites the infected dog, sucking up baby heartworms.  This probably isn’t too good for the mosquito, but it is what the worms have been waiting for.  During the next month, the heartworm babies grow into heartworm teenagers, a stage partway between baby and adult.
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