Being the privileged host of your home, you want that your dog is clean and it is normal. In addition, you draw pride from its beauty! All that requires some attentions which will not become too constraining if they are regular. Moreover, a neat dog is an animal which live better and longer.
We present hereafter situations to you for which it is necessary to
know to react, and quickly.
POISONING
HEAT STROKE
FOREIGN BODIES
ACCIDENTS AND FALLS
INSECT BITES
GELURES
IN THE CAR
SHOCK
It is necessary to find a right measurement between too and not enough... Too much often would be
equivalent to remove to it any
protection against the sun or the cold because its hairs (when it has
some!) are covered, for this purpose, of a natural grease. Let us
say that a pup (as of the three months age) can be bathed more often
than an adult (every week at the beginning and every month then). A
dog with long hair could be more often washed. Accustomed very early and gradually, without
particular brusqueness, your dog will support these meetings of washing patiently.
Water will have to be tepid but will not have to cover that the lower
part of the corps.
If it has chips, always start to make
a collar of sparkling shampoo (the shampoos for human or the household
soap are to be proscribed), so that the parasites do not take refuge
on its head, then wash the other parts. You will finish by the head,
by paying attention so that the product does not penetrate in its
eyes and its ears.
The rinsing will be abundant, drying will be energetic
except in summer when the washing can be done outside. There are also
dry shampoos; they can be useful in certain situations, but they will
never replace a good washing!
In fact, the washing is very often reduced to a
shower... In this case, keep shower head not too far away from the
animal so that it remains calm.
It is reduced to its simpler expression for the naked ones! For the
others, it is an exercise to make at least two or three times per week.
Brushing is done in the direction of the hairs and conversely. You
will withdraw thus all the died hairs, dust, small dirtinesses. That
will also avoid flocks of hair.
The animal will see its nails lengthening inordinately if it walk a little.
You will have to then cut them after having made them soften in tepid
water if necessary. To avoid cuting too short and making it bleed,
better is to use a special nail-clippers.
To avoid an excess of cerumen, it is necessary to regularly clean the
interior of the auditory canal by introducing there some drops of a
special lotion. It is necessary to mass the base of the ear
to make go up dirtinesses and use a cotton-stem. If you note traces
of coagulated blood or a black deposit, a veterinary consultation is essential. Also, it is necessary to
remove all the hairs which block the conduit by drawing them between the inch and the
index. When it is pup, the Chinese Crested Dog needs sometimes
assistance so that its ears are rectified. A tutor or a bonnet will
be necessary. Your veterinary surgeon will teach you how to make.
The eruption of the grips of the pup is at the one month age and their
levelling at three months. At four months, here the eruption of the
final grips and the month following the eruption of the final corners.
At seven months, the dog has " the mouth made " with its
forty two final teeth. It is necessary to know the characteristic of the
Naked ones which does not have complete teeth, contrary to the
Powderpuff. To fight the appearance of the tartar, the dry food is
quite useful. You can also give him pieces of dry bread and not
hesitate to withdraw the tartar with your nail, while starting at the
base of gencive. Exists now in the trade all that it is
necessary to brush to it the teeth. Despite everything, the small dogs
have more than others need for a meeting of descaling practised under
anaesthesia by the veterinary surgeon.
If your dog has the red eyes and tears, check that a foreign
element did not slip under its eyelids and wash to it the eyes with a
boric acid solution. If you do not note any improvement in the
following days, a veterinary surgeon will have to be consulted because
there is perhaps a risk of conjunctivitis; if you note the presence
of pus, that can be much more serious. It is also necessary to
withdraw secretions which are at the internal angle of the eyes.
Located each side of the anus and somewhat below, they are emptied
automatically. But it may be that they end up being blocked, in which
case they will take volume. The dog will react to this embarrassment rubbing itself by ground and
leaving behind it a brown trace. That
will empty them. But generally, that will not be enough.
With each veterinary surgeon visit, the expert will check anal
glands and if need be, will empty them. You can also do it placing your inch and your index on
each side of the
anus by including anal glands. You will strongly press while drawing
slightly. Obviously, you will have taken the precaution to use an
absorbing paper sheet...
One meets primarily chips and ticks. If the chips are not really
dangerous, it’s different for the ticks. It is
necessary to check the body of the animal any day, especially in summer,
and to deaden the ticks with ether before extirpating them. The body does not have to be detached
from the heat.
Many insecticides, in the form of collars, powders, sprays, pipettes
and others are on the market, all providing a certain protection,
but the wonder product, alas... Personally, I use
FrontLine which seems for the moment more efficace.
As for
the tinea, it is caused by microscopic mushrooms. The depilated zones
are round and tend to extend. A veterinary surgeon consultation is
essential without delaying. More especially as the tinea is
contagious for the human.
The worms, mainly the ascaris, the
trichuris and the tapeworms, are dangerous and can cause the death of
the animal nonneat.
BR> The females at the beginning of gestation
must to have a vermifuge
automatically. The pups reaching two months will
be to it once per month until the one year age. The adults, twice the year (in spring and in autumn)
and more if one
notes worms in the saddles.
Certain signs will warn you that it is not very well: change in its
practices, misses appetite, refusal of walk, apathy, insulation, dry
and rough truffle...
There are small gestures which save... In the event of urgency, call
a veterinary surgeon immediately and describe to him how is the
animal. Do not panic. While waiting for its arrival, occupy you of your
dog.
Symptoms
: vomiting, important salivation, suffocation, sometimes cough.
Treatment
:
to withdraw the poison which is close to the animal; to make to drink
abundantly; in the event of acid, of alkali or derivatives of oil,
to try not to make it to vomit, make it to drink milk or vegetable oil; if
the product is not corrosive (strychnin), to give it the specific
antidote indicated on the product, to
make it to drink water, milk or activated carbon; to practise the
artificial respiration if necessary.
Symptoms
: suffocation, high temperature, important salivation, risk
of coma.
Treatment
: to put the dog at the shade; to sprinkle cold water; to practise the
artificial respiration if necessary; to make to drink to it water or
very strong coffee mouthfuls.
Symptoms : in the mouth, abundant salivation, the dog scrapes it and
rubs its
jaws; in the oesophagus, dribbles, attempt at vomiting (kind of
foam); in the stomach and the intestine, the dog seeks the contact of
a cold surface, vomiting, abdominal pain when pressure of the
hand; on the level of the rectum, sometimes blood in the saddles.
Treatment :
to quickly withdraw the foreign body which is in the mouth; if the
foreign body is in the stomach, to make to eat to it cotton soaked in milk,
bread or leeks; to check in the saddles elimination following days;
to make swallow to it mineral oil or of kitchen.
Symptoms: fractures, coma, state of shock, haemorrhages
.
Treatment
: not to move the animal unnecessarily; to lengthen
on a board or a cover;
to practise the artificial respiration if necessary
.
Symptoms : manifestation de douleur
Treatment : to delicately remove the dart by pressing the congested
part and by
withdrawing it with tweezers; application of vinegar (bee) or bicarbonate
of soda (wasp); to supervise, abnormal swelling and
difficulties respiratory
.
Symptoms: especially on the level of the plantar bearings, the
scrotum, the
ears, the end of the tail
.
Treatment : to heat the cold part; application of an antibiotic cream;
bandages
to prevent that the dog does not scrape itself ; if the
dog is completely cold, to immerse it in a hot bath and to make it
drink milk hot
.
Symptoms : vomiting, anguishes
Treatment : to envisage antivomitifs and calming; to leave at
disposal of water;
to often stop and to leave it; never not to leave locked up in a
parked car.
Symptoms : coldness of the skin and the ends, fast pulse (130 p/mn)
and weak,
dilated pupil, increase in the rate of respiration (40 p/mn), eyes
fixed, pale mucous membranes
.
Treatment : to place the animal on a tilted level (head in bottom); to
mass the
heart; to raise its temperature; to practise the artificial
respiration if necessary; if it is conscious, to make it absorb a
half spoonful with salt coffee and a half spoonful of bicarbonate of
soda in one liter of water
.
The false pregnancy can appear one to two months after heats and can
last two months. It is due to a psychic and physical disorder called
pseudo-gestation accompanied by hormonal and physical modifications
identical to those observed in the event of pregnancy
.
In order to avoid complications such as mammites and pathologies of
the genital apparatus, it is necessary as soon as possible to
intervene. The false pregnancy really appears when there is
deterioration of the behavior, very similar to the state of the bitch
approaching the term. One can then observe an increase in weight and
abdominal circumference, a production of prolactin and udders
inflated. Once the diagnosis posed by the veterinary surgeon, the
administration of a drug per oral way will come to stop this
phenomenon within four to six days.
At this time there the bitch
will calm down, lacteous secretion and mammaire
volume will disappear.
