This chapter only contains a list of several health problems, with which I have met in my dogs or in the dogs living in my neighborhood. Above all, I want to stress here that in the dog's life rules this hierarchy of life values:

    1) Health and life happiness is the most important factor because once the dog lives let it feel good to be allowed to enjoy it's life.

    2) Education and training is the second most important factor, because it preserves the desired dog's behavior both in physical and in genetic respect and it's shape.

    Why do the dogs have health problems? Because they do not eat a quality raw meat, because they live in towns instead of villages, because they do not herd, because they do not go kilometers along fields and forests, because they do not fight, because they do not work, because they eat artificial food and also because the entire human civilization degenerates. And not in the last also owing to the absence of strictly kept genetic selection.

    I recommend a single vaccination against hydrophobia and one month later against the other illnesses. I think that it is not always best when the dog is vaccinated against all the illnesses at once by one vaccine only.

    Never underestimate digestive parasites! Above all, at a young age always control the puppy's droppings (some people can mistake feces for a badly digested pastes and similarly) and regularly deworm it (earlier by Helmirazin).

    At puppy's very young age we avoid all the strange dogs that we do not know and about whom we do not know if they could pass on our puppy some infection. But we afford it a contact with the dogs about whom we know they are healthy.

    We must move all the dangerous things away to do not be reached by a puppy or by an adult dog, which they could bite and eventually eat - electric cables, above all.

    When the dog shits we control by look it's droppings, above all in older dogs urine too.
    If the droppings are too thin we give the dog some smaller bone with one tablet of carbosorb-type of drug and consider what out of all that we fed the dog with caused these problems. If the droppings are too solid we can either use a little of purgative but mostly will be enough to change the components of the dog's food.
    When the dog urines we control if the peak of it's penis did not become too red. When the piss is pasty – a mucus is in it – then mainly in older dogs it can deal with prostatitis. We will investigate the urine and will make it's cultivation (however, not everything can be found in the piss, therefore we also complete the investigation by samples from urethra, conjunctivas and rectum; it is a more expensive investigation but if want to be sure then let it be done properly) and it will be given anthibiotics.

    We regularly notice the dog's appetite. Sometimes the dog eats less amount even though it is hungry but to swallow it hurts, mainly larger pieces (in this case it is not possible to exclude ill esophagus, cancer tumor in the neck area and similarly). So also in this case we take the dog to the vet.

    When we travel in a hot summer the dog should be given fresh water and then be threw water on (if we first throw water on it and only then serve water, it would drink less amount because of a lower thirst at the moment after the refreshment with the water).
    Whether we travel by train or by a car, we let the windows open to enable fresh air blow inside. Never let your dog in a parked car on which the Sun shines because it could suffocate by the heat.

    The owner should do regular health examinations and controls if the dog is okay. This includes groping after dog's body to find possible tumescence, tumors and similarly. Regular home urinary analysis is also suitable. And when anything suspicious is found immediately contact the vet.
    The dog cannot speak and so it cannot let us know what and where hurts it and therefore the bigger attention must be paid to the health examinations.

    When your dog is really sharp it is suitable to get it used to two vets from your neighborhood – two because if one was not at hand the other can replace him. If your dog is so much sharp that it snaps after every vet (I know that from my own experience) then it must be treated in narcosis that however cannot be applied by the vet himself when the dog attacks him but the owner must apply the narcosis instead. Every should be learned how to indoctrinate his dog and give it an injection into the muscle and similarly (if the injection is given by amateurs, suitable is to use a short needle because when using it we cannot stab our dog too deeply but only to the necessary depth).

    The dog's owner must always take care of the dog's claws to do not be overgrown. When the dog uses to walk many kilometers and has too long claws they can cleave and claw root and entire finger can then irritate. If it happened, then after every walk we wipe the in-between of the sick finder and next fingers to be dry and then we apply grease with the liniment of Framykoin-type and we watch the dog to do not lick it (if the sick finger would always be wet then even the best drugs like Entizol must not help).

    Fleas and ticks:

    Against the fleas various disinfection baths and disinfecting sprays of Arpalit-type were used and also drops with outside application with several months lasting time of effect, for example Frontline. One way or other, we regularly control the dog and regularly apply the proper treatment. And when we found a sucked tick on it then we screw it up like a screw – against the direction of the hour hands. We however never tear it off the dog because then in the dog's skin the tick's peak would remain and could irritate.

    Coat:

    Dogs, above all the long-haired, we regularly comb out to remove conglutinationed and old hair. The dog is regularly given eggs after which it's coat will gleam and occasionally a small amount of nutritive ingredients with H vitamin. And we of course bath the dog regularly. Best is when it will go to swim in some clean river or water hole.

    Parvovirosis and digestive problems in puppies:

    My proven method that I have successfully used for already several times in puppies which had parvovirosis:
    If puppy falls sick by the problems of this type, that is vomiting, inappetence and diarrhea, we will violently give it alkohol diluted with water.
    We raise the puppy up and clench it's chest between our knees. Then we put a funnel in it's maw and pour the alcohol through it (mostly I used rum with water). We violently keep the puppy's head until it ingest a bit of the alcohol. Then we release the puppy. It will sputter and salivate for a while but then it will get calm.
    We wait for fifteen minutes and then we serve the puppy some food with softly dispersed animal coal (carbosorb). If the puppy is not able to eat at all, we will prepare the food in a liquid form in a mixer and then pour into it's maw. We wait up to one hour and then we give it water with some milk to drink. It itself is harmful when diarrhea but if there only is a very small amount of milk in the water, puppy likes it more and will drink a larger amount of it. By this it's dehydrated organism will quickly gain needed liquids. In the end we let the puppy take a proper sleep.

    Hip and elbow dysplasia:

    We put to sleep the dogs ill by the most serious dysplasia incapable of normal walking to prevent them from continue in their suffering. And we take care of those with smaller and medium problems with this sickness.
    When the dysplasia begins to do more problems and the dog begins to limp, we give it a spoon of fishfat poured into some food. But we do not do it more often than one time per one or two weeks. It is more efficient than to give into the food only a few drops every day. Of course, the basic therapy is that we do not overload our dog and go for short walks only and we also give the dog some nutrient preparates for soft tissues and bones.

    Cancer:

    As soon as any tumor is found on the dog we take a biopsy with the vet and let it analyze in the lab. If the conclusion is positive, we have two choices:

    1) To give the dog cheap corticoids like for example Prednison which however decrease the effect of other complete cancer treatment (combination of corticoids with other drugs) and moreover it will only help for a short time and then a sudden turnaround comes.

    2) To let the dog examine including liver test and so on, and choose expensive chemotherapeutic treatment - appropriate chemotherapeutic protocol.

    At any case, as soon as the first symptom of decondition appears, we let the dog put to sleep in the very same day to stop any further and higher suffering, because once the final phase of cancer has come, the dog is worse and worse almost every another hour.

    Eye illnesses:

    Often occurs entropy, ektropy and conjunctivis. These can be solved by operation but if not solved in this way and the dog's condition is really bad I rather recommend euthanasia than another life in everlasting pain in eyes. In any case eye drops of Opthalmo Septonex-type are applied (sometimes we can help by conjunctival swabs – curettage) and other antialergic and balmy drugs, for example Evercil. Another problem can be also turbid corneas, sometimes as an accompanying symptom of other illness. In given case eye drops will help with combination of anthibiotics and glokokortikoids like for example Maxitrol.

          
     

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