Pets – a source of joy and positive emotions for adults and children in any family. It would be desirable that our favourites were always healthy and cheerful, but, unfortunately, they are not insured from injuries and diseases. though thorough observance of preventive measures can prevent many troubles. In case of a disease of your pet observe tranquility, try to act quickly, and the most important – in time address the veterinarian and observe all his recommendations.
Instruction
1. The first signs of the desease of an animal – the slackness and refusal of food and water especially accompanied with indigestion and vomiting. Also the aspiration of your favourite to avoid communication, to hide in secluded corners of the apartment can become an occasion to prick up the ears. Attentively examine an animal: whether there are no allocations from eyes and a nose, wounds or the centers of inflammation on skin whether ears are clean? During the spring-year period of time it is necessary to examine carefully dogs and cats having access to the street regarding pincers. Sign at cats and dogs also dry nose is considered, but it is necessary to consider that after a long dream the nose even of absolutely healthy animal can be dry. For unsterilized cats and female dogs prolonged or too frequent techka can be a disturbing symptom: the piometra – inflammation of a uterus can appear its reason.
2. As soon as possible write down your pet on reception to the veterinarian. The symptoms revealed by you can be necessary in case in clinic are able to give you preliminary consultation on phone. To make the diagnosis independently – it is extremely risky. So, for example, vomiting and a diarrhea at an animal can be symptom of both a viral infection, and the swallowed foreign matter, or poisoning. But anyway, it threatens with organism dehydration, so, it is necessary to give to drink to your pet plentifully even if he refuses water. It becomes by means of the medical syringe without needle. The more syringe volume – the better. Slightly slightly open an animal mouth, having raised his head, and slowly pour in water in a corner of lips. Though some part of water will be inevitably spat out, in an organism of your favourite, nevertheless liquid necessary for it will get. It is better to swaddle a cat for holding this procedure in a towel so that only the head was free – so you will suffer from claws less.
3. For the patient the doctor has to define a diet. There is a wide choice of dietary forages for various cases of diseases. But the main principle to which you should adhere when feeding a sick animal, this absence in its diet of food from your table. Fried, fat, sweet, salty, sharp products – can do much harm even to a healthy organism. When at the recovering animal the appetite is restored, and it begins to ask delicacies, show backbone: your pet should not receive any chips and croutons, except for the special fertilizing and vitamins approved by the veterinarian. In pet-shop you will be able to choose safe fertilizing for animals of any kind and age.