Top Ten Curable Problems A Stray Dog Is Likely To Suffer
Intestinal worms:
Especially hookworms and roundworms. Treat with prescription-strength dewormer.
Unspayed:
Especially hookworms and roundworms. Treat with prescription-strength dewormer.
Unspayed:
Spay ASAP. Spaying and neutering makes a dog less likely to roam. If you find a stray, they were roaming when you found them!
Fleas:
A good bath in any foaming shampoo kills the fleas, you don’t need toxic flea shampoo.
A good bath in any foaming shampoo kills the fleas, you don’t need toxic flea shampoo.
Ticks:
Pick them off or get a prescription tick dip at the vet’s. Ticks can require 2 or 3 dips until they are gone.
Pick them off or get a prescription tick dip at the vet’s. Ticks can require 2 or 3 dips until they are gone.
Bacterial Dermatitis:
Needed some prescription antibiotics. With a vet’s prescription, Publix offers 2-week’s worth of Cephalexin, an appropriate antibiotic for most bacterial skin infections in dogs.
Starvation:
Provide enough food.
Needed some prescription antibiotics. With a vet’s prescription, Publix offers 2-week’s worth of Cephalexin, an appropriate antibiotic for most bacterial skin infections in dogs.
Starvation:
Provide enough food.
Ringworm:
Infected with ringworm fungus, particularly on her ears. Ringworm gets into your home easily. The microscopic fungal spores rub off everywhere the dog goes and they can be carried on air currents everywhere dust can be found. Environmental contamination is a big deal!
Infected with ringworm fungus, particularly on her ears. Ringworm gets into your home easily. The microscopic fungal spores rub off everywhere the dog goes and they can be carried on air currents everywhere dust can be found. Environmental contamination is a big deal!
Mange:
Most stray dogs have come in contact with mange mite-infected wildlife, other dogs, or cats. The mite insects are too tiny for you to see with your eyes, but they cause crusted, super-itchy lesions on the paws, ear edges, face, around the eyes, and sometimes thick piled-up scabs all over the body. A really terrible mange infection will cause most of the fur to fall out and thick folds of dark pink, angry, sore skin to crust over and just hang in folds. A dog can die from severe generalized mange , as the skin is the largest organ, and the largest immune system defense of the body.
Most stray dogs have come in contact with mange mite-infected wildlife, other dogs, or cats. The mite insects are too tiny for you to see with your eyes, but they cause crusted, super-itchy lesions on the paws, ear edges, face, around the eyes, and sometimes thick piled-up scabs all over the body. A really terrible mange infection will cause most of the fur to fall out and thick folds of dark pink, angry, sore skin to crust over and just hang in folds. A dog can die from severe generalized mange , as the skin is the largest organ, and the largest immune system defense of the body.
Thunderstorm phobia and Separation Anxiety:
If your stray dog is in good shape. Nails trimmed, collar on, no fleas, not skinny, odds are the dog ran away. And odds are he or she ran away because of a panic attack. Watch carefully and schedule a veterinary appointment if you see signs you dog is anxious, vocalizing, soiling the house, or shaking during storms or during the first ten minutes when you leave the house.
Loneliness:
The #1 Reason to Keep a Stray Dog: Share the Love you and Your family have to give. It will come back to you 1000 times!
If your stray dog is in good shape. Nails trimmed, collar on, no fleas, not skinny, odds are the dog ran away. And odds are he or she ran away because of a panic attack. Watch carefully and schedule a veterinary appointment if you see signs you dog is anxious, vocalizing, soiling the house, or shaking during storms or during the first ten minutes when you leave the house.
Loneliness:
The #1 Reason to Keep a Stray Dog: Share the Love you and Your family have to give. It will come back to you 1000 times!
