If your pet is lethargic, not as active or perky as usual, disinterested in eating, not drinking normally, vomiting blood, got into the trash or may have eaten a foreign object or unusual food, you should withhold its food and call for an appointment. We will get your pet in for an exam and possible x-rays or blood work. If your pet does not show any of the above symptoms after vomiting, still keep it under observation to see if it vomits again. Remove it’s food for 12 hours and make sure that water is always available. If no more vomiting occurs after 12 hours has gone by, feed it two parts cooked whole rice and 1 part boiled chicken or lean hamburger for a day or two. If vomiting continues for more than 24 hours or occurs more than once in 24 hours, withhold food and make an appointment for an exam, x-rays and/or blood work.

If your pet’s stools aren’t extremely watery, don’t contain fresh blood, aren’t dark black and tarry, and aren’t associated with vomiting or excessive straining, take your pet off food for 12 hours. Make sure water is always available. After 12 hours you may try feeding a bland diet of cooked white rice and boiled chicken or lean hamburger. Mix 1 part meat to 2 parts rice. If diarrhea worsens, you see any of the signs listed above or the condition doesn’t improve in 24 hours, call to make an appointment for an exam. DO NOT GIVE Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate to your pet (especially cats) unless you talk to our clinic first.

You may purchase a product called “Forbid” (or try meat tenderizer) to sprinkle on your dog’s food. It changes the stool, making it taste even worse. You may try “booby-trapping” any stool in the yard with hot sauce. However, you must be consistent. If your dog encounters any stool that has not been booby-trapped then it will take longer for your dog to stop this habit. Also try leash walking your dog and keeping the yard picked up.

Fleas are small, dark brown-black insects. You can usually see them, often near the base of the tail or on the belly. They flee from light. You can also see “flea dirt”. This dark, grainy material in the hair coat or on the skin turns red when moistened, as opposed to dirt, that continues to be black even when wet.

Average temperature for dogs and cats is 101.5. A range of 100.5 to 102 is probably okay. Always use a well-lubricated rectal thermometer to take your pet’s temperature.

A cold, wet nose may be a sign of good health in dogs and cats, but even a healthy pet can have a warm, dry nose on occasion. On the other hand, really sick pets can also have cold, wet noses. What does all this mean? Your pet’s nose is not a reliable indicator of your pet’s health.

No, but Pet Vet doctors may modify the vaccine schedule or administer a pre-med PRIOR to vaccinating your pet. These measures should decrease the incidence and/or severity of the vaccine reactions. Also, Pet Vet offers blood work to determine your pet’s vaccine titer level; if the level is adequate your pet may not need to be vaccinated that year. We will discuss your concerns and formulate a plan prior to vaccinating your pet.

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