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  • Caring For Cats Benefits Humans Too
    By: Tristan Andrews | - Cats require little maintenance and are excellent indoor companions and domestic pets. Contrary to popular belief, they are affectionate creatures who crave attention and promote better health in their owners. Evidence shows that cats seem to lower health risks for cardiovascular disease by improving high blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress levels.

    Cats also contribute to healthy spousal and family relationships. The responsibility for caring for a pet instills empathetic be ...

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  • The Dangers Of Canine Parasites.
    By: vivek1 | - When you get a puppy, one of the first things that you
    need to do is make an appointment with the vet to get
    your new family member his or her vaccinations. Along
    with any recommended shots, your cuddly canine will
    probably get a dose of a de-worming formula to rid
    them of any internal parasites.

    Hookworms

    Some parasites can be very dangerous to your dog,
    especially to puppies. For instance, a hookworm (about
    1/8" in leng ...

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  • The Dangers Of Canine Parasites
    By: sumit1 | - When you get a puppy, one of the first things that you
    need to do is make an appointment with the vet to get
    your new family member his or her vaccinations. Along
    with any recommended shots, your cuddly canine will
    probably get a dose of a de-worming formula to rid
    them of any internal parasites.

    Hookworms

    Some parasites can be very dangerous to your dog,
    especially to puppies. For instance, a hookworm (about
    1/8" in leng ...

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  • Tapeworm In Dogs Causes, Diagnosis And Common Symptoms
    By: Stan Eric | - Tapeworms in dogs are parasites that invade the intestinal tract. Once there, they attach themselves to the inner walls of the intestine. Unlike hookworms, they don't suck blood.

    The cat or dog tapeworm infection is called "Dipylidium caninum". This worm's life cycle begins in the anus of the infected cat or dog. When the animal takes a potty, a small segment of the worm goes with the stool, bearing some tapeworm eggs. These eggs will lay dormant in the ground for about several mont ...

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  • Common Cat Health Problems - What To Look For
    By: Tristan Andrews | - It may come as a surprise, if you're a new cat owner, that many health problems may befall your feline friend. Some problems are easily preventable, while others are hereditary.

    Hairballs

    Hairballs are among the most common of cat health problems. Cats groom themselves almost constantly, and swallow the loose hair that comes off their tongues. Occasionally, the hair gathers into a ball and lodges in the cat's digestive tract instead of passing on through the body. I ...

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  • Important Kitten Health Issues - Keep Your Kitty Healthy
    By: Tristan Andrews | - Kittens lack a working immune system when they are born. A new born kitten is unguarded against infections. When a kitten initially nurses, she gets antibodies from the colostrum in the mother's milk. The antibodies swiftly pass into the kittens bloodstream and circulate around its body. Kittens have a limited period for absorbing the antibodies. The window is a few hours long, so nursing soon is important. When it closes, the antibodies are digested, not absorbed.

    The mother's an ...

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  • Pet Medication And Preventative Care
    By: Joana123 | - In these economic times, it is hard enough to have to worry about your own healthcare without having to think of your pets as well. However, it is important to protect your pets from health problems, as it is one of the things they rely on you for since it is not something they can take care of on their own. For example, your cat or dog can lick a wound to keep it clean, but they do not have access to something like heartworm or skin infection medication unless you give it to them!


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  • Pet Meds For Heartworm
    By: Rachel_Jackson | - Being prepared by putting your pet on a preventative program that works to protect them from contracting heartworm, is far easier on them than the treatment they would have to undergo for heartworm disease. Placing pets on monthly medications for the prevention and treatment of heartworm not only saves countless lives, but it also saves pet owners a lot of money. Treating a pet that has advanced heartworm disease is not only costly to owners, but the outcome is not always pleasant for pets due t ...
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  • Cat Worm Symptoms - How To Recognize And Get Rid Of Your Cat's Worms Naturally
    By: Kate Rieger | - Sometimes, the problem is obvious, such as your cat throwing up after eating - and what comes up includes something which seems to be small pieces of spaghetti. What these are in most cases are roundworms.In other cases the problem may not be immediately apparent. Here's help to recognize and treat cat worms.

    Your cat might have a wheeze; this could simply indicate a cold and vets see thousands of cats which seem to have a respiratory ailment. However, these symptoms can also mea ...

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  • Pet Flea And Tick Problem Article
    By: Jacob George | - Fleas and ticks can create a serious problem for your pet or pets during the spring and summer months, and flea bites and tick bites can cause a great deal more than itchiness in your companions. Once a flea or tick infestation begins, it can be truly difficult to control it, let alone limit it, so using a good product for flea and tick control is absolutely vital if you want to create this problem from becoming something even worse. Tick and flea preventative products come from a wide variety o ...
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  • Four Common Causes Of Feline Anemia
    By: D Swain | - Feline anemia develops when there are not enough red blood cells or hemoglobin in the body. It is a symptom of disease, but is not a disease itself. Let's take a look at some of the most common causes of feline anemia.

    Kidney Disease

    One of the most common causes of anemia is kidney disease. The kidneys are responsible for producing a hormone called erythropoietin. This hormone stimulates bone marrow to produce red blood cells. When there are not enough hormones to ...

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  • Feline Worms - Three Common Types Of Feline Worms
    By: D Swain | - There are three common feline worms that affects cats. They include hookworms, tapeworms, and roundworms. These worms multiply as they live inside your cat. If there get to be too many, it can be life-threatening for your cat. Let's take a look at these feline worms.

    Roundworms

    Roundworms live in the same intestine and can reach up to five inches in length. Most cats become infected by coming into contact with feces or food. Queens can also pass them to their kitten ...

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  • An Owner's Guide To Anemia In Cats
    By: D Swain | - Feline anemia occurs when your there is a lack of hemoglobin or red blood cell production. It's important to understand that anemia isn't a disease. Instead, it is a sign of an underlying cat disease. You may be wondering what can cause anemia in cats.

    Causes

    There are a range of things that can cause cat anemia. The kidneys are responsible for producing hormones that stimulate red blood cell production. So, kidney disease is one of the most common causes. Parasi ...

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  • Worming - Dogs
    By: Sandy Scott | - What Types Of Worm Infections Are There?

    Roundworms

    These worms are spaghetti-like in appearance and non-segmented. Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonina are both seen in the UK. A heavy infestation can cause a pot-bellied appearance, diarrhoea and result in a poor growth rate.
    Toxacara canis can also affect humans, causing a variety of symptoms and in rare instances, blindness in children.

    Tapeworms

    These worms are segmented a ...

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  • Cat Worm Symptoms - Your "i'm Not An Idiot" Guide To Recognizing The Symptoms Of Cat Worms
    By: Kate Rieger | - Read this guide and your cat will thank you for recognizing cat worm symptoms before these parasites do her long term harm. There are several types of parasitic worms that can infest your cat like: lungworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms and cat heartworm. There's plenty of synthetic parasiticides on the market, but you can opt for a natural approach to treating cat worms.

    Some cat worm symptoms can be pretty darn obvious, like when kitty vomits an enormous load of half digest ...

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  • Pets Lands: Health Problems Of Cats Shared By: juliemax11 - Tapeworms, roundworms, and hookworms are among the most common that infect cats. Cats who have problems gaining weight, problems with fleas, or if you...


  • Cat Worm Symptoms - You Can Call Them "ancylostoma Tubaeforme" But They Are Still Cat Hookworms
    By: Kate Rieger | - Its important to recognize cat worm symptoms caused by the common feline hookworm. A cat hookworm infection poses a threat to your kitten and senior cats. This common intestinal parasite can be transmitted to people. Here's how to recognize cat worm symptoms, how to get rid of them and how to prevent them from spreading to your family.

    The scientific name for the two most common cat hookworms are Ancylostoma tubaeforme or Ancylostoma braziliense. The adult hookworm lives in your c ...

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  • Snoopy Met His Pet Wormer
    By: Sandy Scott | - I have a pet dog name Snoopy. All right. All right. I all know what you are thinking such an original name for a pet dog. Well, for your information, I grew up reading Charlie Brown with all his adventures with Snoopy. I even remember having a blue Snoopy shirt. It was my favorite when I was young. Now why am I being defensive? I am arguing against assumed accusations. For all I know, you might not even care why I named my dog Snoopy.

    Snoopy is a very playful, very affecti ...

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  • I Save My Dog's Life With Dog Wormer
    By: Sandy Scott | - I never thought that my dog, Bruce, will have to confine himself to the vet for a day or two. He has been taken care of very well, from his food to his luxury grooming. I treat Bruce like my very own child and I even meet his whims like a pack of pedigree for his meals. But he suddenly became weak the previous days. It all started when my cousin took him for the morning jog at the park and left him with another dog to buy some food. Maybe it is through that dog that he became sick. And now I am ...
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  • Dog Wormer Is More Than Getting Rid Of Worms
    By: Sandy Scott | - I am a veterinary assistant. Working for about six months at my uncle's clinic gave me some education that a few vet schools failed to teach. Being a veterinary assistant puts you to the actual health scenarios of the animals. But may be you are puzzled why I chose to become a veterinary assistant rather that being a real veterinarian. At first when I took veterinary medicine, I am hesitant if it is really the career I want to take. Of course I love animals but it is rather a different thin ...
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  • Cat Wormer: How Should It Be Used?
    By: Sandy Scott | - Unlike the dogs, who give visual symptoms of intestinal diseases when infected like being pale and loss of appetite, the cats show symptoms less. In worming the cats, unlike the dogs which can be dewormed for three consecutive days, and then during an interval of two to three months, there are factors to consider before worming the cats with cat wormer. Some of the few are the age, the level of infection, the maternity conditions and the environment to which he lives.

    Before we p ...

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  • Petwormers: Saving Life
    By: Rupert Bowling | - The type of pet worms that infects your pet varies on the geographical location that you are in and the type of animal that you have. The most common external parasites seen on pets are ticks and fleas. However you should not be deceived by this alone. If your pet has been losing weight and experiencing vomiting, then, the problem could be worse than you think of. This is answered by pet wormers.

    Parasites of canine and feline are a source of potential danger for pets and humans. ...

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  • Complete Information On Cutaneous Larva Migrans
    By: Juliet | - Cutaneous larva migrans is the skin manifestation of hookworm infestation. People of all ages, and race can be affected if they have been exposed to the larvae. It is most commonly found in tropical or subtropical geographic locations and is relatively common. The main risk factor for this disease is contact with damp, sandy soil contaminated with infected cat and dog feces. The larvae may migrate at rates of a few millimeters to a few centimeters per day. Cutaneous larva migrans travel through ...
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  • Hookworms "€" Symptoms And Treatment
    By: Peter Hutch | - Hookworm infection begins when the worm is in the larval stage. It penetrates the skin and migrates during its life cycle through the liver and the lungs, and it attaches to the mucosa of the small intestine where it matures. Hookworms deplete the body of nutrients, and a major effect is severe chronic iron-deficiency anemia.

    Hookworms and whipworms are common types of parasitic worms found in canines or your dogs. Hookworms are small worms, which fasten to the small intestine wal ...

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  • Heartgard--heartworm Prevention
    By: J Everett Myers | - If you've been thinking about trying Heartgard, but don't know much about it, not to worry. This short article will bring you up to speed in no time flat.

    Heartgard is a veterinary drug designed for the prevention of heartworm disease in dogs and cats. It is specially tailored for use in canines of all weights, sizes, and breeds of dogs-including Collies and other potentially ivermectin-sensitive breeds, as the amount of ivermectin in a directed dose of Heartgard is considerably ...

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  • Cat Health Problems, Diseases And Illnesses
    By: Moses Wright | - Cats, like any other animals will suffer from common diseases and illnesses. Many of them are not life threatening and can be cure easily by your local veterinarian. On the other hand, there are also diseases that are terminal and most often fatal.

    On the top of the list of common afflictions a cat can get is hairballs. Hairballs occur as the result of cats performing their everyday grooming routine. Loose hair and debris collect in quantity on the cats tongue and are then swallow ...

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  • Pet Diseases: Healthy Pets Make Healthy People
    By: Subasree | - Pets are prone to many illnesses. Hence, they should be taken care of very well and also monitored regularly for any symptom of ill health to keep their well being. A pet can be a happy companion to human being only if it is healthy.

    Some of the symptoms of pet diseases causing ill health:

    Loss of appetite, excessive gain or loss of weight, excess water consumption, abnormal discharges of the nose, eyes etc., abnormal, difficult, uncontrolled waste elimination, le ...

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  • Cat Health Problems And Simple Things You Should Know.
    By: Ed Philips | - If you are new to owning a cat, you may be surprised to find that health problems are a common thing. No matter what breed of cat you own, health problems are to be expected. Some may be hereditary, while others can easily be prevented.

    Worms
    No matter what breed of cat it may be, worms are a very common and recurring problem. Tapeworms, roundworms, and hookworms are among the most common that infect cats.

    Cats who have problems gaining weight, problems with ...

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  • Common Health Problems Of Cats
    By: Tristan Andrews | - If you are new to owning a cat, you may be surprised to find that health problems are a common thing. No matter what breed of cat you own, health problems are to be expected. Some may be hereditary, while others can easily be prevented.

    Worms
    No matter what breed of cat it may be, worms are a very common and recurring problem. Tapeworms, roundworms, and hookworms are among the most common that infect cats. Cats who have problems gaining weight, problems with fleas, or i ...

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  • Dealing With Internal Parasites
    By: Tristan Andrews | - Be alert to the hidden health threat. Most internal parasites, commonly called worms, live in a cats intestines where they feed and reproduce. All kittens should be examined by a veterinarian for internal parasites. Your veterinarian can detect the presence of most worms by examining your kittens feces.

    Some parasites, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted from the mother to her kittens before birth or during nursing. Hookworms are among the most dangerous of all in ...

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  • Does Your Pet Have Worms?
    By: Matthew Homfray | - Of the ailments pets can suffer from, worms may not be the most dangerous to an animals health, but they are one of the most unpleasant from an owners perspective. Not only can they cause weight loss and mild diarrhea in your pet, they are also unsightly and some of them can be transmitted to humans.

    There are 4 different types of worms that affect dogs and cats: roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms and whipworms. These very greatly in both the part of the intestinal tract that they l ...

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  • A Guide To Your Puppy's Health
    By: BJones | - The first major question to consider is which vet to take him to. Other dog owners will be glad to give you advice and references. Use pretty much the same criteria you would in choosing your own family doctor, a good manner with dogs, a willingness to discuss symptoms and treatment, and a gentle touch with his patient. But whatever you do, do not wait until the last minute to phone frantically around the city with a sick puppy on your hands.

    Your next concern is preventive shots ...

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  • A Guide To Your Puppy's Health
    By: Randy Jones | - A pup's life is filled with dangers and very easily lost in a big world. However, puppies seem to have an incredible resistance to human and bacterial diseases. The major areas that will concern you most in caring for your pup are: feeding, preventive shots, worming, and a good eye for disease.

    The first major question to consider is which vet to take him to. Other dog owners will be glad to give you advice and references. Use pretty much the same criteria you would in choosing yo ...

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