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If your dog swallows a toad or frog immediately flush the dogs mouth with running water to reduce poison ingestion and contact your vet or poison control.

Tips for helping your insecure, fearful, or so-called “submissive” dog gain confidence to improve the quality of her life.

A vet may prescribe clonidine for dogs battling general anxiety and fear-based behaviors, such as leash-reactivity, fear-based aggression, and even separation anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about clonidine for dogs.

When a dog suffers from weakness, regardless of cause, it’s usually most noticeable in the hind limbs first. This makes sense, as the dog’s...

Just over a year ago, the first article I ever had to write that mentioned COVID-19 was published in this space. It seems like...

The gut is a sort of tube running through you, and lining that tube is a dynamic ecosystem of various bacteria, helping digest your food, producing nutrients that you need, and, it turns out, affecting how you feel.

On June 27, 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an update to two previous advisories regarding dog food and dogs...

where the left and right sides of the mouth are mismatched. That upper canine should be right behind the bottom canine. Instead, the bottom canine is crashing into a top incisor. The rest of her top incisors are actually hitting the bottom of her mouth! This pup will need major dental work.üüOuch! This molar has suffered significant gingival (gum) recession and exposed the roots. Immediate extraction is warranted.

One of the worst moments in my life came about a year and a half ago, when the dam that looms over my town – the largest earthen-filled dam in North America, mind you – was proclaimed in an emergency broadcast to be in danger of imminent failure. I was 20 miles away, perfectly safe, with my younger dog, Woody. But my husband and my heart dog, Otto, and my son's dog, Cole, were all at my house, just five short miles downstream of the dam, and three blocks from the river channel that would likely be obliterated by the 3.5 million acre-feet of water behind the dam. My mouth went dry and my heart was pounding as I tried to call my husband. Despite the fact this requires pressing only two buttons, with shaking hands it took me over a minute to make the call.

OK, we all know about #2. But many of these extremely common items are less hyped, and some are even ENJOYED by dogs!

where the dogs helped with herding dairy cattle