Canine Health

Decoding the Canine Genome: A Comprehensive Guide to Dog DNA Testing
For decades, understanding a dog’s lineage or predicting its future health relied heavily on pedigree charts, visual guesswork, and waiting for symptoms to appear. Today, a simple cheek swab offers a window into a dog's ...

Helping Our Dogs Cope with Cataracts
Helping our dogs cope with cataracts When you look into your dog's eyes, if they are a little cloudy or hazy, it could indicate that cataracts are forming. Eyes have lenses inside them to help ...

Canine Blood Transfusion
Too often we see urgent requests on social media asking for pet blood donors to save the life of another who is losing blood. For some, it even comes as a surprise that blood transfusion ...

Anaesthesia and your Dog
Anaesthesia is the total loss of sensation in a body part or in the whole body, generally induced by a drug or drugs to create loss of feeling, unawareness and muscle relaxation either locally, regionally ...

Does Your Pet Have Arthritis?
Osteoarthritis (arthritis) is a well-recognised condition in people and dogs. It is a common cause of chronic pain, where 1 in every 5 adults is affected. The incidence of this disease is similar to that in dogs, ...
