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Healthy dog food additives like fruit and eggs can boost your dog's nutritional intake.

10 Healthy Dog Food Additives to Improve a Dry Food Diet

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Your dog's nutrition can get a boost by adding some of these 10 healthy dog food additives to their dry dog food. These added foods should represent only a small portion of the calories your dog consumes to maintain a balanced and healthy diet.
Dogs can be allergic to cats, more specifically their dander.

Can Dogs be Allergic to Cats?

Dogs can be allergic to a wide variety of environmental allergens including pollen from trees, weeds, and grasses. This list of allergens includes cat dander.
Dog allergy medication can help with a dog's constant itchiness, and other symptoms.

A Guide to Dog Allergy Medications

There are several manifestations of allergies in dogs, including atopic and flea allergy dermatitis, allergic rhinitis and bronchitis, hives, and insect bite hypersensitivity. Symptoms...
Acral lick dermatitis is a bald or ulcerated area caused by excessive licking.

Acral Lick Dermatitis in Dogs

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Acral lick dermatitis is an area that becomes bald with raised skin that may ulcerate or bleed as your dog excessively links it.
Is the sore spot on this dog's nose ringworm vs a hot spot?

Is That Ringworm or a Hot Spot on My Dog?

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Ringworm on a dog appears as a dry, hairless, circular spot, while a hot spot tends to angry, red, moist lesions that are itchy.
While Doodles typically share some traits with their Poodle parent, there are no guarantees regarding which traits they will inherit. Credit: Madeline Block

Why are Doodle Dogs so Popular?

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The first popularized Doodle was a Labrador Retriever and Poodle mix, bred in 1989 by Wally Conron as a guide dog prospect. He aimed to create a dog with the temperament of a Lab, but the non-shedding coat of a Standard Poodle for a woman who needed a guide dog, but whose husband had dog allergies. In a 2014 interview with Psychology Today, Conron said that he regrets popularizing Doodle breeding. "I opened a Pandora's box, that's what I did,” he said.
Treating a dog ear hematoma at home is possible if it's a small hematoma on a healthy dog's ear.

How To Treat a Dog Ear Hematoma at Home

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You can treat a small ear hematoma on your dog at home, if necessary, but you run a real risk of ending up with...
Otto is a handsome boy and vaccinated for parvovirus.

How often do you vaccinate for parvo?

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AAHA recommends that adult dogs who have received those core puppy shots be revaccinated a year after the last puppy vaccinations, and every three years thereafter. This is a somewhat reduced schedule from decades ago, when most veterinarians would recommend giving all the core vaccines to every adult dog annually.
Why is your dog shedding so much? It might be the season, or it might be age.

Why Is My Dog Shedding So Much?

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Shedding removes old, damaged, or excess hair in a natural cycle that regulates body temperature and maintains skin and coat condition. The rate and timing of your dog’s hair loss depend on age, breed, and overall health.
Spring is the time of year where a dog's allergies might be most aggravated.

Spring Allergy Challenges

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It’s spring-time allergy season around here. My own incredibly itchy eyes would fully inform me of that fact even if Woody's constant licking didn't.
Dogs can get pinkeye, but they're unlikely to get it from humans.

Can Dogs Get Pink Eye?

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Technically yes, dogs can get pinkeye from humans, but it’s rare. Most of the causes of conjunctivitis are not contagious even within the same species.
Cute Maltese puppy dog close up head-shot of the eye detail with typical tear staining around the eye.

Dog Tear Stain Remover: When and What to Use

Dog tear stain removers can remove tear stains. However, tear stains are harmless when they aren't caused by another issue and changes in diet and grooming can also resolve dog tear stains.