Dry eye, nystagmus (quick side to side eye movements) Drooping of eyelids or mouth, drooling Dropping food, difficulty eating or drinking If you see any of these serious symptoms, you need to see your vet. But you can manage less severe ear infections at home. To get to the point, he...
in veterinary medicine, this condition may become more frequent in pets. Decreased salivary secretion may also result from use of certain drugs, extreme dehydration, fever, anesthesia, immune system dysfunction, or disease of the salivary gland. It is also seen in some dogs with "dry eye" ( ...
Few dogs are as iconic as the Bloodhound. Kids who grew up withDisney’sThe Fox and the Houndwill recognize the dog’s drooping ears and wrinkly jowls. And with a reputation as the “Sherlock Holmes” of dogs, there’s no doubting their popularity. While they were also historicallybred fo...
Drooping eyelid Constricted pupil Retracted eyeball Prolapsed third eyelid Drooling Difficulty chewing on affected side Causes of Canine Horner's Syndrome The nerves that control the muscles of the face and eye travel from the brain through the spinal cord to the chest, where they exit the spine ...
or the joints may be loose to the point that the bones are dislocated. This can be bones of the legs, hips, and other parts of the body that are connected by joints. Rare, but also an effect this condition has on dogs, is dislocation of the eye lens. This is caused by the same ...
William Youatt, a veterinarian, specializing in diseases, was one of the first to criticize: “The King Charles breed is currently significantly altered for the worse. The muzzle is very short, and the forehead is ugly and prominent, like that of the Bulldog. The eye is twice as big as...
Submissive dogs avoid direct eye contact with the dominant dog, and it has been suggested that the relative status of the dogs is determined by this visual communication [14]. In this study, wide eyes were observed mostly when the dogs looked up at the handler's face. The tendency of ...
When Sandy wasborn everyone agreed that she was the living spit of the picture, and so she was calledAlexandra and Sandy forshort.On this summer day she was lying peacefully reading a comic and not keepingan eye on the twins, who didn't need t because they were occupied in seeing which...
Pemphigus is the term used to describe a group of rare mucocutaneous autoimmune bullous diseases characterized by flaccid blisters and erosions of the mucous membranes and/or skin. When the autoantibodies target desmosomes in the deep layers of the epide
And the excessive skin that modern show Bassets carry can result in skin fold dermatitis, and painful eye problems. You can see the Basset in the photo above has deeply drooping lower eyelids, which make him vulnerable to soreness and infection. ...