Dog Health Care and Tips

Have you seen your dog with red bug bite-like bumps, red, itchy and flaky skin, fur loss, and scratches intensely? If yes, then your dog is infected with sarcoptic mange or to what we are familiar with, scabies. This results to intensely itchy skin in dogs, cats and other mammals and is caused by parasitic mites and can be extremely contagious to other pets and even humans. Dogs can catch a sarcoptic mange from a pet having this disease or even to human having scabies when these dogs took a trip outside, particularly in thickly wooded areas with abundance of wide life.

If you were to pass by an alley, stray dogs may not be avoided. Some of which may be disgusting and some may look them pitiful. One thing I’m sure, they have a problem of being too thin. Although dogs have the capability to survive without a master on their side, they don’t receive the proper nutrition of food they are supposed to receive because they take whatever food they may get from digging on trash cans or stealing from unattended food in a street. Some of these dogs even eat a lot of food but seem not to absorb the nutrients coming from their food. There are ways to determine if a dog is very thin. One of ways is to observe how it looks liked. Does it have bulging eyes? Does the hair peels of off on their skin seeing marks of parasitic attacks?  Or try running your fingers lightly over the dog’s rib cage, if you are able to feel his ribs slightly, then he is fine, but if you are able to feel the grooves in between his rib cage your dog is too thin