How to Stop a Male Cat From Spraying

Let's talk about how to prevent your male cat from spraying. This can be actually quite challenging, and the first thing you have to do is figure out what is going on, and get a diagnosis from a veterinarian. The spraying can be generally one of two things. A; a cat that's a male that is spraying, we've got to know; first off, is it a neutered cat?

If it's not neutered, that's the first thing to do. Number two is a urinalysis needs to be performed to figure out is there an infection or inflammation occurring that's causing him to feel like he needs to urinate outside of the box. For instance, cat's are pretty smart, and what they'll do sometimes is if if their urine or urination hurts them in a litter box, they think the litter's doing it, so they will go outside of the box and spray; versus, if the urine does not contain an infection or anything like that, it's probably behavioral. So, working with your veterinarian, you have to figure out what that problem is. If it's behavior, is it another cat in the environment? Is it not enough litter boxes?

Not the right litter? Not a hood on the litterbox? And so there is lots of information that your veterinarian can provide for you to help you figure out what that problem is and how to treat. Now, some cats, some male cats that are behaviorally spraying and behaviorally urinating outside the litter box can be psychological, and there are actually synthetic hormones; pheromones actually, that are used to spray an environment that can calm these male cats down. That can work quite well. Sometimes we rely on anti-depressive medication, such as Prozac, Elavil, things like that to help these cats kind of calm down and forget why they're spraying, and after a while most of these guys do very, very well, and you can stop the medications.

Tips For Treating Injuries to a Dog's Genitals

Hi I'm Dr. Adrienne Mulligan of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic in Arizona and I'm here today to talk to you about a rather touchy subject when animals private organs get into trouble on behalf of expertvillage.com. There are a few fairly common things that happens to dogs back in the rear of them. One is for a male dog to extrude his penis. This is a sheet this is not actually a dogs penis this is a covering and a hair dog which this dog is not. Now a hair dog is at risk of extruding his penis and getting hairs.

You seethe penis does come out and then hairs could get wrapped around that penis not allowing it to go back in and if it does that it would actually cut of the blood supply and the penis would become large and dark and dried out also very engorge with blood and fluid. This is something that needs to be corrected pretty quickly or it could require surgery. One of the things that you have to keep in mind is number one to clean it. Get in moist. Get it wet. This are tissues that want to moist and you don't want to let it get dried out and you could clean it up like that and get the hairs away from it a little bit. If you still could not make this engorge penis go back in one little trick is to dump a lot of sugar on it.

Sugar will draw it would have a drawing effect and draw the Adina the fluid, the blood, not blood but the fluid part of the blood out of the penis and help it to shrink so you could slide it in. then you might need to use some KY jelly to help it to do that and water that need to help move back in. the same applies with a dog that might have a prolong rectum. A dog will have straining with diarrhea can sometimes prolapse there rectum. A female could also prolapse there vaginal area and those tissues again needs to stay moist and saline solution or water. Saline is better and just your typical saline like you would use for contact lens you could use to moisten those areas and keep them moist until you could get them to the veterinarian and if they are engorge and very thicken sugar could go there to. Sugar is will draw the Adina from the tissues so they would be a little easier to be put back into place.

How to Manage a Cat's Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Let's talk about managing your cat with inflammatory bowel syndrome, or IBS. IBS is quite common in cats actually. They can react to foods, environment, all sorts of things, and the underlying cause sometimes is not known. But the end result can be a cat with chronic vomiting, chronic diarrhea, weight loss, things of that nature. IBS has to be diagnosed by your veterinarian first, and once that's diagnosed there are certain things that can be helped, or given to help IBS in cats.

For one, anti-inflammatories can help; either orally or by injection, over time, and not every cat requires something like that. So that's one method of treating IBS. Number two is going to be dietary management. IBS cats never need to get lots of treats, lots of different foods, things like that. Basically, IBS cats need to go on a hypoallergenic, or special foods that are die are are basically designed to to have the body not recognize their proteins as well. And what I mean by that is it's it's sort of like having an allergy. If your body can't recognize a protein that you're allergic to, then you're better off, and not going to react to that. So, your veterinarian should help you also manage IBS, because it is a chronic condition.

How to Express a Cat's An*l Glands

Let's talk about expressing a cat's an*l glands. An*l glands should never be expressed on their own at home in a cat unless there's a medical reason for that. Cats typically are pretty good about keeping their an*l glands expressed. Now an*l glands are actually attached to an*l sacs that sit about four and eight o'clock under the anus. So they have two on each side. And from time to time, these can get impacted, full or infected and at the direction of your veterinary clinic, they may tell you to express these from time to time. To do that, you need certain tools.

Your best friend for expressing an*l glands is always going to be the rubber glove. Two, is have some gauze pads handy. Three, baby wipes are always good to help clean that area after you're done. And also, it's not a bad idea to have a nice little feline approved cologne or spray to help with that odor because that odor is quite horrific sometimes. An*l glands sit at four and eight o'clock. What you want to do is never want to go into the anus unless your veterinary clinic teaches you how to do that or directs you to do that. The best way is actually squeeze those an*l glands from the outside right under the anus.

And basically you use a pinching motion very gently, and move your fingers upward to try to produce that fluid out just below the anus. So you want to capture that in a gauze pad and then clean that area with a baby wipe and then, lastly, you're using the cologne to reduce that odor. Now, be very careful. Cats do not typically like this or enjoy this and so you never want to put yourself in harm's way. You don't want to do this by yourself. You want somebody to help you hold that cat as well because they can turn around and bite you if they don't like that, which can be quite severe.

How to Treat a Cat's Bladder Infection

Let's talk about managing your cat's bladder infection. A bladder infection is diagnosed at your veterinary clinic. Once they've seen a urinalysis and can determine if there's an infection present, then generally antibiotics are going to be needed to treat them. There are a couple of important things to think about when we are dealing with infections in cats, especially. When we are dealing with males. Male cats have a very small urethral orifice that they urinate from and males can actually block if they have an infection or inflammation of the bladder.

Blocking means they can not urinate, that is an absolute emergency. If they are squatting and yelling at the litter box and not able to produce any urine they need to see a veterinarian right away, because that's an emergency situation. At home essentially it comes down to using antibiotics for bladder infections. There are some other things that you will use occasionally for pain because bladder infections are obviously very inflamed very irritating and painful. And most cats will do quite well. Medicating cats can be challenging, but talk to your veterinary office about how to do that and also look for a recurrence of bladder infections in the future.

How to Make Homemade Cat Food

Let's talk about homemade diets for cats. There are a few reasons why a cat may need to go on a homemade diet and that's always going to be directed by your veterinarian so if that case comes up they can direct you as far as ingredients and things like that. We use homemade diets for cats that have severe food allergies let's say, cats that have inflammatory bowel syndrome, also cats that have weight problems that we're trying to do let's say a reducing diet on or a reduced calorie diet and so there are recipes that your veterinarian can provide for you that you have to specifically make at home.

That can be challenging and some cats being cats and being finicky may not always just easily turn to a homemade diet but work with your veterinarian on these types of aspects if your cat does need a homemade diet. A lot of homemade diets are based around rice. Rice is typically kind of bland and easily digestible and not very stimulating as far as allergies are concerned and so rice is a component to a lot of those, white rice that is. Potassium chloride is given a lot of times as a salt substitute for cats as well as vegetable oil and bone meal. There has to be calcium in homemade diets as well to provide for that calcium for those bones and so those are some of the common ingredients that are involved. Obviously there is a protein base such as lamb or chicken or something like that that can be directed by your veterinarian.

Healthy Tips - How to Winter Health Care

 Healthy Tips - How to Winter Health Care

1: Worst Infections
in WinterWash your hands regularly to keep infections from spreading. Even though this is health tips for all seasons. it's doubly true during winters when infections and viruses seem to be at their worst

2: Coughing and Sneezing
when coughing and sneezing , use a tissue to coveryour nose and mouth make sure you dispos of the tissue afterwards in the nearest waste receptacle and wash you hands.

3: Skin Affected
your skin probably is the worst affected during winters lack of moisture in the air and in yourbody leaves it dry and flaky. show it some love and affection use a deep nourishing cream to ensure your skin stay healthy.in winter skin mostly defected.

4: Exercise
Make exercise as painless as possible. think of ways to weave in a little more of that pkysical activity your naturally get inwarm weather. instead og getting cofee with a friend and take a walk together.winter exercise harm your body this is good for winter weather.

5: Know your Triggers
certain foods feed heartburn's flame. typical triggers include foods full of sugur and fat think pumpkin pie slathered with whipped cream. instead reach for complex carbs like veggies and whole-wheat breads.

6: Drink Water
Drinking six or eight glasses a day of water to herbal tea can keep your digestive system healthy your weight down and your energy up.this is most important winter health tip for your body and health.

7: Nutritious Food
Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from the five major food groups and aim to includes 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetable in your diet each day.eat winter health foods in routeen.