This one's a little tricky because, let's face it, sometimes dogs are dogs, and they like chewing on things like your shoes, sticks, rocks, and gra...
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Yes. Well, maybe. We will be talking about senior dogs today, and it's really important that you feed your dog a good diet....
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The most important thing with your senior dog is to keep a regular schedule....
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Not necessarily. If you are choosing a food that is AAFCO certified and assured as a balanced diet, it doesn't matter if you feed wet or dry food....
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It can, and that too falls in the line of if your dog will just eat until the bowl's empty and you're keeping that bowl full all of the time....
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The most important thing you can do is not let your senior dog get fat....
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Not necessarily. I have plenty of dogs that need to be on a balanced over-the-counter diet....
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They can. If fleas or ticks are on your pet, they certainly can cause disease in humans....
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I will answer this by saying that's kind of what they're known for. They will groom themselves, and they try to keep themselves tidy and clean....
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An elimination diet is generally a prescription diet that is a strict diet focused on taking out all of the high allergic triggers....
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Fleas are very small, but they're not microscopic, so you can see them with the naked eye....
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The short answer to that is no, but the honest answer is we're probably going to anyway....
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For the majority of breeds of cats, just very limited bathing is needed....
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The obvious symptoms you'll look for are drooling, foaming, stumbling, lethargy, usually hanging their head down low, tucked tail, vomiting, and di...
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Fleas can live in the environment, mostly on pets, but they can live in the environment for an annoyingly long time, usually about three months....
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The obvious signs right off the bat are if you're noticing vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, and/or just generally not acting themselves....
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They will lick themselves....
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