#heart disease in dogs

[benetnvsch]

MAKING OUT with KUNIKIDA-KUN in the BACKROOMS at 3 AM‼️ REAL NOT CLICKBAIT‼️GONE WRONG (MONSTER SUMMONED⁉️ I DIED⁉️⁉️⁉️)

[freakystinky]

the way tumblr talks about medicine makes me wonder how many of us here actually have critical thinking skills

[therealnotta]

finally rereading the first wizard of oz book. why do they feel so ooc. did i recreate them in my own mind, changing them imperceptibly until they were no longer the same, or do they really just change that much as the series goes on. scarecrow says he's scared of matches day ONE and i distinctly remember him, seconds from being burned at the stake, going "go ahead. you can't kill what was never alive, and if a table doesn't complain about being chopped up for firewood then why should i?"

also when they meet the lion he's all "yeah it makes my heart race :(" and the crew is just like "huh. maybe you have heart disease actually not cowardice :/" HUH CAN YOU IMAGINE????? and the lion is like "huh! maybe i do???" and tin man over here's like "aw you should be grateful bc it means you have a heart, i'll never be able to have heart disease :(" NICK THATS A GOOD THING ITS THE ONE BENEFIT OF YOUR CONDITION?????????????????

[mothman-is-my-girlfriend]

My 14yr old dog passed today. It’s so weird to feel so sad but also completely at peace with it. He was ready. The relieved sigh as he fell asleep beforehand was heartbreaking but took the big weight of doubt off of me. I miss him dearly and would give anything to hug him just one more time. 💔😭

[feathered-serpents]

Really it feels like 2019 was the best year of my life, 2020, and 2021 didn’t exist, and then 2022 wants me dead but “This Year” by the Mountain Goats will not let me die

[squidwardqtentaclesrevenge]

Just a PSA, but if you can afford to, you should probably invest in pet insurance. Even if it's only for accidents and sudden illnesses. None of them cover pre-existings so try to get one that doesn't make you get a physical right away if you get a new pet.

They don't work like regular insurances, you pay first and then submit a claim, but if it's covered at least you can get most of your money back.

I say this as a cat owner with a cat now battling cancer and another cat that may have heart disease.

This shit is expensive.

[yther]

I would like to retire from having a body... maybe just a sabbatical. But for now I am an amorphous (non)figure.

I want to sleep. I want to want to eat regularly. I want to have energy to clean and organize my life....or hope for a life in a future.

I don't want to fight to survive. (But if that's not my choice, so be it.) No one would be doing any better than I am in this sadistic and totally contrived Saw-"situation", y'all can fuck off about it with the judgement. Sincerely (to weirdo stalkers)!

You don't give me peace, which is fine since I can make my own. :' D (I can make peace with LOTS of things, mmmm forgiveness extends from self to others, it's amazing u should learn about it. )

so I'm gonna eat some of my birthday cake nom nom nom

[ultradannyboyblog]

I Am Cryin' A Final Goodbye For Holly Golightly

This morning, I had planned to say goodbye to my Holly Golightly (put her to sleep), and I was writing this a few minutes before I took Holly to the vet’s office. She’s been battling Cushing’s Disease for a few years and she is now totally deaf and almost blind. I had been up with her all night and had to give her some Trazadone to calm her down but it had little effect. She was spinning out…

[seniordogrevolution]

Senior Dog Health Alert: Is Your Fur Baby Showing Signs of Heart Disease?

Is your senior fur baby displaying potential symptoms of heart disease? Look out for warning signs such as coughing, fatigue, difficulty breathing, and reduced appetite. Senior dogs are prone to heart conditions, so early detection and treatment are crucial. Schedule a veterinary check-up for a thorough examination and necessary tests to ensure your beloved companion's heart health and overall well-being.

[ameliasmith8826]

It is important to manage hypertension and seek medical attention if you experience any symptoms of hypertensive heart disease or its complications.

[absentlyabbie]

i'll tell you what converted me to being all-in on keeping cats indoors only:

living for a year and a half in a rural area with a sudden feral cat colony explosion on the property.

i moved in with my folks for a bit and at that time, one (1) stray cat mama had taken up residence on the property, but was too feral to let my mother anywhere near her. but especially after she brought three kittens around, mom fed her and the kittens in hopes they'd grow trusting enough she could catch for spay and neuter at the minimum. momcat stayed mean and hella wary, but the kittens would hang around a little nearer and play with my mom via long stick, but still wouldn't come close enough to touch or catch.

unfortunately, two of the three kittens were girls and started having kittens of their own before further progress was made, shortly after i moved in. and that was pretty much instant doom.

there were so many kittens. SO MANY. multiple litters. every time we turned around, more kittens.

we fed them. we hunted for and located the kittens every time anywhere on the property and would move them to a repurposed doghouse anytime a mama cat had them somewhere else, so that they could grow up human-socialized and we could spay/neuter them when they were old enough. (also it was a handy tactic to push the issue of the mamas getting more used to/trusting of us themselves. only really worked with one of them, though.)

and we watched them die.

we watched litter after litter of kittens never make it to the age they could be spayed or neutered. the moms stayed, for the longest time, too skittish to more than briefly touch, much less catch and crate for a vet visit.

it sounds like a silly joke to say i have kitten-related ptsd, but i absolutely do.

too many goddamn times i'd walk out of the garage and find the carport and gravel drive strewn with tiny bodies. others simply went missing, never to be found.

one in particular, i wish i hadn't found, and the visual literally haunts me still, almost a decade later.

i saw so many kittens die of snake bite, spider bite, wild dogs, birds of prey, hit by cars, respiratory illness, covered in fleas and eyes crusted with infection.

and we loved them all. scrimped for antibiotics if the vet could be convinced to give it to us despite our being unable to bring them in. bought flea collars and ointments. we cared for them and fed them and petted them and played with them, brushed their fur and cleaned up their little faces, put ice in their water in hot summer, rigged a heating lamp in their house in the winter.

and they died. horribly. that property is pocked with unmarked graves of kittens and cats.

all the best intentions, not enough resources, and it didn't matter anyways because the population went from three to almost twenty (at times, over thirty) in the blink of an eye.

they died and died and died. our hearts broke over and over again. the stress and anxiety wore us down like sandpaper. i think, by the end of it all, we managed to find less than 10 of them all homes, including batman the disabled kitten i found a home across the country through tumblr.

it was carnage and tragedy, frankly. and we were helpless.

it only ended because they started dying faster than they could be born, and because we finally caught the two remaining mom cats in traps and got them spayed.

the points about outdoor cats being invasive predators devastating to local wildlife populations is true and valid and important.

but i know cat people, and cat people who don't know better than to let cats outdoors. what matters to you is the cat itself, generally. the cat being happy and taken care of.

keeping cats outdoors, letting them outdoors, is not taking care of the cats. it's not protecting them. it's not giving them any happiness or invigoration that couldn't be provided to them as indoor-only pets with just a little research and effort.

they die. they get ill. they get hurt. they're at risk of predators, and cars, and disease, and carelessly cruel children and deliberately cruel adults. they're at risk of disappearing on you because someone else saw a cat outdoors and intervened to give it a better, safer life not in conflict with the local environment.

and if that offends and angers you that someone would just take a cat they saw roaming outdoors, even collared, and that it sounds like i'm endorsing that, i am, but not if you intervene and be that person yourself for your own cat.

if what matters to you is doing right by your cat because it's family and a living creature whose happiness and health and safety is important to you,

keep them indoors. not part time. always. exclusively.

edit: since apparently i need to clarify this, i'm saying cats should live inside, that they should not live outdoors, even part time. visiting the outdoors supervised on a leash or in an enclosed catio is not the same as even part-time living outside, and i am certainly not advocating against it.

[lakecharleslady]

Waiting on the mail

When Kade left, he was an organ donor and we were so thankful he was able to gift so many people a different way of life. From the moment they told us he would not survive this catastrophe event, I clung on to him being a donor with everything I had. At the time, it was sanity saving for me to be able to focus on that. Good from bad. It gave me an incredible sense of peace that awful…

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Do you have a snoot noodle or other variation of sighthound? If yes, there’s new heart health research for the breed happening!

A researcher at Texas A&M whose work I’m familiar with is starting a new study looking at genetic factors contributing to heart disease in Borzoi and related breeds. They just put out a call for dog owners who are willing to submit saliva samples & (noodle) medical records. Studies like this need a big sample size! They’re accepting new sign-ups starting now until March 1, 2025, for dogs both in the US and internationally.

Let’s help make some science!

From the study page:

“Background and purpose

Recent research in Borzoi dogs has revealed that dogs of this breed experience sudden, unexplained death. About 85% of sudden, unexplained deaths in humans are linked to an underlying heart disease. Our existing research in Borzoi dogs has shown that they are predisposed to developing arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) and dilated cardiomyopathy (a heart muscle disease causing dilated heart chambers and weak pumping function).

Due to our documentation of the frequency of these conditions in Borzoi dogs, we seek to identify responsible genetic variations similar to what is seen in humans with electrical cardiac diseases that trigger arrhythmias and dilated cardiomyopathy.

The objective of our study is to identify genetic mutations associated with heart disease in Borzoi dogs and document their existence in other sighthound breeds.

What happens in this study

We are collecting saliva samples from both healthy Borzoi and Borzoi dogs affected with arrhythmias and/or dilated cardiomyopathy. We will also collect saliva samples from any other sighthound breeds.

We will extract DNA from these samples and perform genomic sequencing on a select number while retaining the remainder for further screening.By analyzing the sequencing data, we can compare the genes of healthy and affected Borzoi dogs and identify variants linked to their heart conditions. We will also compare the findings in Borzoi dogs to results from other sighthound breeds.

Pet owner responsibilities

A swab kit will be sent to you for at home use along with a link to an instructional video on how to properly obtain a swab of the mouth. The kit will contain equipment to collect the saliva swab, a history form for your pet, a client consent form and a shipping label to return samples to us.

Participation requirements

To participate, you must have a Borzoi dog or a sighthound breed that is either healthy or affected by arrhythmias and/or dilated cardiomyopathy. Pets may be any age or sex. Electronic or paper veterinary medical records will need to be provided.

Benefits and risks of participating

There is little to no risk for taking a brief swab of the mouth for saliva collection if procedures outlined in the video are followed. No individual genetic test results will be provided to study participants.

Compensation

There is no cost to the owner for participating in this study. No compensation will be provided.”

[chiasemxh]

Experience treating anorexic dogs

Experience treating anorexic dogs

For me, this is very simple, at home, there is no dog that is so lazy to eat that I have to worry. But this is a common problem for many dog friends. To solve the problem of anorexia or even skipping meals regularly, you first need to understand the basic nutritional needs as follows: – Dogs under 2 years old: need a Sufficient and continuous amount of food. This is the period of comprehensive…

[neilirving73]

Tuesday 06.13.22, Rest In Peace Ruby

Rest in peace Swamp Dog Squirrel Worrier, we are absolutely devastated at the loss of Ruby, she has been our constant companion for the last 10 years, and kept us sane and anchored when the things went mad, watched the kids grow up, always at our side when we were upset or down, she gave us so much unconditional love