Anything For Animals

posted by admin on Aug 11

Don’t neglect your dogs teeth.

They need to be looked after just as much as a humans - especially if you are feeding moist foods - or you have a breed prone to dental problems like sight hounds or toy dogs.

Dental problem can cost a lot of money at the vets - and can be really painful for your pet. And it is all virtually avoidable. Don’t wait until your dog gets into trouble - and never assume your dog is too old to make a difference!

What Is The Problem?
Most dog food and treats contain sugar - need I explain!

I can virtually guarantee that if you are feeding a moist or dry commercial pet food - one that is available in your local food store - it contains sugar (or sometimes listed in the ingredients as caramel, glucose).

These sticky, moist food might taste nice with all it’s additives, but it will stick to the teeth and do damage.

As it is wet - it also has no abrasive action so there is no general scraping of the teeth during eating. Some people sometimes add biscuits to the wet food - but this can only do so much!

What’s The Solution?
Well, dry food can help to increase the abrasion of teeth while eating and therefore keep your dogs teeth free of dental build-up - however, do make sure that your dry food doesn’t contain colors or sugars - other wise you may as well be cleaning their teeth with icing!

Dogs teeth are natually strong and they can eat most whole animals products (like actual animal flesh, jerky and bones) without too much trouble - but as with humans, if you add sugars or highly-processed foods to your diet - you are asking for dental decay!

Therefore you have one of 2 solutions that are very easy to add to your pets routine:

1) Feed your dog anything you want to but clean it’s teeth regularly with pet-friendly toothpaste, or;
2) Feed your dog premium dry foods (that don’t contain sugars) and only feed healthy treats and let the teeth keep themselves clean.

There are, of course, breeds of dog like Yorkshire Terriers and many sight hounds that are genetically prone to ‘bad teeth’, so these dogs may need extra attention which ever method you choose.

posted by admin on May 24

A Natural Treatment for Rabies?

The simple answer is ‘No’.

There isn’t even a chemical treatment for rabies that any medical body would recommend for animals due to the risk to humans.

Basically, it is such a dangerous and difficult to treat disease, that there is no point risking an outbreak of any kind, so the animal must be kept totally isolated until it’s death.

If you suspect and animal as having rabies, you should always report this immediately to a vet or the police at any time day or night. The risk to humans and other animals is just to great, and if the virus gets into domestic animals, then everyone is at risk, including other wildlife, pets, livestock and, of course, you.

As the virus may be present in saliva before these signs develop it is very important to isolate animals which have been bitten and observe them.

The Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in the UK and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in the US must always be called if there is a suspected case of Rabies. The dog, cat, bat or other animal will be humanely destroyed to protect the brain, and the head is sent to the labs for investigation.

There is no ’safest rabies vaccine for cats or dogs’, there is only one rabies vaccine, and the only way to prevent your pet getting rabies is to vaccinate it.

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