How to Keep Your Boxer - or any Dog - Healthy...

Written by Gord Shinh


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If your Boxer has tapeworms, he has fleas too because part ofrepparttar tapeworm life cycle occurs in flea asrepparttar 125679 host. As such, treatments against flea and tapeworm are normally prescribed together.

Some, likerepparttar 125680 roundworm, that infect dogs can also get passed on to children.

In more serious cases, your dog will catch cough, pneumonia and develop lung problems.

There are different types of worms that infect dogs such as tapeworm, roundworm, ringworm and heartworm. De-worm your Boxer puppy every month and your grown Boxer, every 6 months.

Puppies get sick from worms, more so than dogs.

But your infected grown Boxers help spreadrepparttar 125681 worms more through their droppings that would contain large number of larvae and/or eggs.

Released intorepparttar 125682 surrounding, these larvae and eggs could infect other animals and even children.

The tapeworms have a flat, segmented body.

You see them as single segments or chains that resemble segments of rice inrepparttar 125683 droppings of infected canine.

Part ofrepparttar 125684 tapeworm´s life cycle occurs inrepparttar 125685 flea asrepparttar 125686 host. Therefore, if your Boxer has tapeworms, it has fleas too andrepparttar 125687 treatments for both are usually prescribed together byrepparttar 125688 vet.

The roundworms (toxocara) live and produce hundreds of eggs inrepparttar 125689 intestine.

They cause digestive upset in puppies, poor growth, and thin or out-of-conditioned coat.

The infected puppies may become listless, have a potbelly or tucked in appearance.

Oncerepparttar 125690 roundworms migrated fromrepparttar 125691 gut torepparttar 125692 lungs, your Boxer can suffer lung damage, cough and pneumonia.

The roundworm eggs inrepparttar 125693 dog droppings get passed out and about.

These are very hardy eggs, resistant to heat and cold, and can survive up to 7 years inrepparttar 125694 soil. The eggs can pass on to children through ingestion and cause them to fall sick as well.

As precautions, you can toilet train your Boxer puppy to use a place where you can easily clean up and dispose ofrepparttar 125695 droppings intorepparttar 125696 sewer. Have your children wash their hands every time after they handlerepparttar 125697 puppies and discourage your puppies from licking people hands or faces.

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Lessons from a Dying Friend

Written by C. Bailey-Lloyd/LadyCamelot


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We enteredrepparttar vet office and suddenly he perked up. He acted as if he had nothing wrong with him - but I knew better. Dogs, like humans, want to live.

Initially,repparttar 125678 vet took extensive blood and stool samples. Waiting forrepparttar 125679 results wasrepparttar 125680 hardest part. As we stood there with Max, I watched him grimace again and again, and I knew he was in terrible pain. After what seemed like eternity,repparttar 125681 veterinarian returned withrepparttar 125682 heartbreaking results. Max had a massive cancerous growth on his liver, and it was shutting down completely. The prognosis was extremely negative and imminently terminal. There was no alternative treatment which we could give him.

As I stood there in forced disbelief, I began to cry and realized that I had to make one ofrepparttar 125683 toughest decisions of my life. I could've taken Max home and allowed him to live a few more days, perhaps a week or two in agonizing pain. The other, realistic option was for me to give him his final dignity and allow him to be put to eternal rest.

As I signedrepparttar 125684 release form for Max's final treatment, I looked into his cherry eyes and pulled his face close to mine. Kissing him gently on his forehead, I gave him a hug and told him that I loved him and that he would be going home soon.

He peered back at me as if he'd understood me. And I prayed that he did. His passing was very peaceful and dignified. And at that moment, and now too, I know I maderepparttar 125685 right decision.

My dying friend taught me that all life - humans, dogs, other animals, even trees - have an instinctive spirit to survive. Even at our worst, our will to live takes overrepparttar 125686 conditions or diseases that riddle our bodies. What I'd learned was that my Max had obviously lived with this cancer for months but never displayedrepparttar 125687 effects untilrepparttar 125688 last two days before his passing. He was a fighter, a survivor, and a big piece of my heart. He also taught me that decisions have to be made in life - and we have to live with those decisions regardless how painful they may seem atrepparttar 125689 time. In his final moments, he taught merepparttar 125690 most valuable lesson: that his spirit would be forever alive with mine, and that physical death was inevitable - and in order to live life torepparttar 125691 fullest, we have to accept that fact. I can go forward now knowing that Max is no longer in pain, and he is probably guardingrepparttar 125692 rainbow bridge of heaven.

No matter what happens in our lifetime,repparttar 125693 cycle of life and physical death continues. It is eternal and as I told a friend of mine, pacification comes with time, and time isrepparttar 125694 healer of all things great and small.

© Lessons from a Dying Friend by C. Bailey-Lloyd aka. Lady Camelot

C. Bailey-Lloyd aka. Lady Camelot is the Public Relations Director & Staff Writer for www.HolisticJunction.com and www.MediaPositiveRadio.com


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