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Hi, I rescued a 1 year, 9 month old Treeing Walker Coonhound yesterday (Sunday) from a great no-kill shelter in my area. It's in Rhode Island and they pull dogs out of high-kill shelters in the south, particularly in South Carolina. Before I adopted her, I visited her a few times in the...

Sometimes I wonder if Frontline is just a big marketing scam. I hate putting it on my dogs, since it's technically a chemical pesticide. I've read that over the long-term it can cause neurological problems. I've used it for years, but I'm starting to question it. Curious what other...

In followup to my earlier ear infection thread, while one of my beagles was being examined today, our vet noticed a fleshy-colored small bump inside her ear. She mentioned that she recently treated a dog recently who had melanoma in its ear, so she told me to monitor the bump for any size or...

So my beagles tend to be prone to ear infections. We're diligent about cleaning their ears, but the infections still pop up from time to time. To clean, we were using a witch hazel/tree oil herbal based solution, but our vet recommended we use a flush instead in an attempt to get deeper...

Not sure if the 'health care' forum is the best place to do this, but preventing my dogs from being eaten by a coyote would be good health, no? Anyway, my neighbor spotted a coyote walking across my driveway yesterday. I have two beagles and they play in the backyard, which is fenced in...

Is there any rule of thumb regarding adding supplements to a dog's food? I use salmon oil as a supplement now, but I also would like to add a chondroitin supplement.

Last night, one of my beagles started to yelp whenever he moved his neck. Took him to the vet this morning, and the vet said he was having disc issues (most likely IVDD). I know beagles and other short-legged/long body breeds are prone to this. Also, on Saturday I was walking him and he...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good ear cleaning solution? Links would be appreciated too. Thanks.

Ok, so my male beagle has been licking his dong consistently over the past 24 hours. I took a look and there is a little bit of white fluid. And it also happens to smell very foul. I did some research online and it sounds like it's smegma. Does this sound right? And at what point, should...

A couple weeks ago, I started a thread about one of my beagles who had blood in her urine. She had a UTI and it's been treated, and it's fine now. When I brought in her second urine sample, I brought in a urine sample from my other beagle just for the heck of it. Vet called and said...

Walked into my bathroom tonight and there was urine with some drops of blood in it on the floor. Urine was dark too. Obviously, I'm going to the vet in the morning. Any ideas what it could be? It's from my female beagle. Her diet is EVO Reduced Fat dry in the morning, and usually a...

"In my best Seinfeld voice I ask, "What's the deal with garlic?" I've read good things about it on this board, and bad things. Some say it's a great flea and tick preventative, others say it causes anemia. Curious to hear everyone's opinion...

One of my dogs just had a tooth removed due to fracture, and now he is on a soft-food only diet for the next 2 weeks while healing. I usually gave him a frozen chicken wing or drumstick for dinner, but I have to lay off the hard stuff for a little while. Any alternatives? I'd still like to...

So, after 5 years of living in a major city, we've made the move to the 'burbs. And our house is surrounded by woods. I've basically gone from a tick-free zone to a tick-haven. Any tips for tick prevention? Obviously, my dogs are on Frontline. There's also a fence going up around the...

So one of my beagles has a fractured tooth, the molar way in the back. It's a tooth that seems to be quite functional for a dog. Vet said we could either do an extraction or a root canal. Is one option better than the other?

Any suggestions for good dog toothpaste? Are they all about the same? Natural ingredients vs. Artificial? Help would be appreciated.

Some of us are familiar with how a dog's butt can smell when his/her's anal glands need to be expressed. It's that metallic/fishy type smell. Well for the last two days, my dog's "man-part" has had that same smell. I checked it out. There's no odd color discharge. He's peeing at the same...

I don't know if she's always had this or not, but I just noticed a hard, boney bump on my dog's forehead. It feels like it's part of her skull. It feels about the size of a 1/2 of blueberry. It doesn't move. Any idea what this could be? Something cosmetic? Something more serious? Any...

At the vet today, one of my beagles had anaplamsa antibodies in his bloodwork, which according to the vet means he was exposed and may have the disease. As a result, the doctor prescribed doxycycline which she said would kill the disease if he in fact has it. They are going to check his...

So, I took my dogs to visit my parents this weekend. Today, my father calls me up and says that one of the dog has worms. When I ask why he thinks that, he tells me he found a "couple black coiled things about the size of a dime" on the ground. He picked them up and they broke apart in his...