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If the tooth root hasn’t been fractured and it is treated quickly, you can easily re-implant the dog’s tooth that has been knocked out.
Pick up the tooth by the crown without touching the root, and place it in a container of cool milk. This will prevent the delicate tissues around the root from drying out while you rush the dog to the vet.
After the tooth has been replaced in the jaw, the pulp will probably die, but root-canal treatment can be given when the tooth is secure in the jaw again.
Do you know dogs cannot lose heat by sweating? Because they have no sweat glands. All they can do is pant. Hence dogs are more prone for temperature-related injuries. The common temperature-related injuries in dog are-
1. Heat Stroke
2. Frost Bite
3. Hypothermia
Heat Stroke
Heat stroke is one of the commonest causes of avoidable death in dogs. A dog’s temperature will raise up to 43.3° C (110°F), if it is being tied in a room without ventilation during hot day. If you left the dog in that condition, it literally get cooked up. A hot car is real deathtrap for dogs. Even parking in the shade and leaving a window partly open is not safe. Some of the dog owners will leave the dog inside the car and heater would be switched on during cold weather. This will also lead your dog to fall as a prey to heat stroke.
Frost Bite
Frostbite is mostly likely to occur to the extremities after exposure to below-freezing temperature, especially when it is windy. Drying the dog with a towel will help to relieve from frost bite.
Hypothermia
Hypothermia can occur in new borne puppies. Some times hypothermia will occur after anesthesia also. This condition is more prevalent among toy breeds and those with short coats. disowned puppies are prone to this condition. It is mandatory to keep the orphan puppies in a warm, drought-free environment especially for the first weeks of life.
The newborn puppies need more warmth than normal dogs. As each one is delivered, keep it in the draft-free whelping box on a heating pad or well-wrapped hot-water bottle, which contains water below 85 degrees celcius.
Rub the puppy with a rough towel to mimic the mother’s licking and stimulate breathing. If this fails, blow gently into the puppy’s mouth and nose until the chest starts to lift (don’t do this act for more than 15 minutes).
Between deliveries put the pups onto the female’s nipples. At this stage, her breasts will produce colostrum, which contains antibodies that will protect them from disease.
By week four the puppies should be receiving additional food,and by week eight they should be fully weaned and ready to go to new homes.
Most pregnancies and births take their natural course, and there is no need for human intervention. However, you should call the vet if any of the following occurs:
- The Pregnancy runs for more than 65 days.
- No puppy has emerged 2 hours after the start of contractions, or has not been delivered within 30 minutes of first becoming visible.
- More than 3 hours pass between the delivery of the puppies, especially if the female is straining hard and appears unsettled.
- The female appears lethargic and her contractions are not strong enough to expel the puppies, or she seems exhausted.
Neutering male dog is nothing but removing the testicles of male dog through surgical method. Some of the pet owners believe that dog neutering is making their “macho” dog into “wimp”. But there are numerous advantages of doing neutering your dog.
A number of health advantages can be put forward for having your dog neutered. Castration reduces the incidence of:
- Testicular Tumors, relatively common in the older unneutered male dog.
- Anal Adenomas, tumors that appear around the anus, often causing severe irritation, bleeding, and sometimes problems with defecation.
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, enlargement of the prostate gland due to the effect of testosterone, the male sex hormone. The prostate gland sits at the neck of the bladder and lies just below the rectum. The condition can therefore cause problems with urination and normal defecation.
As regards the actual surgery, age makes no difference. However, if you do not intend to use him for breeding, early neutering of dog can be a good idea, as he is less likely to learn hormonally induced, undesirable behavioral patterns, which can be difficult to correct in an older dog. But actually most of the dogs will be neutered at the age of six months.
