Does your cat or dog need to go to the vet? Does your cat or dog really need that surgery, procedure, or treatment? How serious is the condition your veterinarian described? Is euthanasia the best decision for your pet right now? The Web-DVM online veterinarians can help answer these questions. Sometimes you just need another professional opinion to be sure you are making the right decision. We want to help you make the best choice for your animals and know at the same time that you have saved valuable time and money while receiving a professional case review from the comfort of your own home. Pets today are considered family members, best friends, confidants, and so much more. Taking care of them requires not just dedication, love, and nurturing, but also the right knowlege to recognize illness and make medical decisions for your pet. The Online Veterinarian provides quick, professional veterinary answers, and advice for the situations and concerns that you face while taking care of your pets with the Ask A Vet Advice Online Veterinary Request Service. Ask Pet Questions and get Veterinary Advice. Consultations will be detailed and informative and will not be generic, cursory answers, with follow up correspondence if necessary. This service is only meant to be informative and supplemental. Sounds like a tick to me. You can take a cotton ball and put a glob of hand sanitizer on it, then hold on the tick for a good 10 minutes or more, then when you slowly take the cotton ball away, the tick will be on the cotton, unable to get off. It suffocates them so they will unlatch and be on the cotton. No not normal, The vet should have sent you to a eye doctor for your baby. I went through the same thing. My little one was blind. I stopped the medicine. I will follow up with a optomlogist. She will only see a vet when needed for being sick … Not for eyes bones or another part of her body that a specialist can handle. My male boxer puppy is acting very strange. He normally eats very well, behaves very well too. Well today we fed him his normal food, at the same amount, and after he ate he started begging, whining and being very loud for more food. When he comes over to beg we put him back on the floor and he runs over to his food bowl and starts whining again. He has never done this before. We have tried playing with him, giving him water, and taking him outside but nothing seems to stop him from crying. When he falls asleep he wakes up about ten minutes later and starts whining again. American Bulldog 7 years old Cartersville, Ga. ~My dog has excessive drooling leaves puddles and drool constantly hanging off of his mouth in long thick strands fatigue, lethargy, weight loss but eats well, difficulty walking, climbing, and cannot jump, foul odor, horrible breath, ulcers around face eyes and nose area and hind legs with hair loss that will not heal, the ones by the nose are swollen so they are bumpy, heavy panting, stays in his bed all day, chronic red eye and pus in the eyes. Please help me by telling me what you think it could be and where I could take him that will be affordable. He has a lot of the signs pointing to cancer except he eats well but has lost about 30 pounds. You can see his bones. I look forward to your input. Thank you so much! I appeal for your kind help in giving treatment to our Home for Dog inmates. I am a retired engineer but my passion for dogs since the age of 3 has urged me to serve them instead of sitting idle. I do not get any aid or grant and somehow manage to run the Home with our own meager recourse and generosity of a few donors. I do not have any veterinary help so with my limited knowledge of medicine and experience of living with dogs for 70 years I only give treatment to ailing dogs with the help of God. In India there is no Veterinary Consultation service, nor any veterinarian is willing to come to this remote place Therefore I feel most helpless for suffering dogs in the absence of expert advice. I shall be most grateful Madam Doctor, if you provide me medical guidance on critical cases only, to help me to diagnose the internal disease correctly and render proper treatment. I have already been donated with an Oxymeter by a kind lady of Washington DC. These devices will be useful for medical advice by sending images and data for expert analysis and treatment guidance. I am attaching an info sheet for your kind perusal. I shall be most obliged to get your kind advice Dr. My mini schnauzer 4 years old suddenly vomited his food and had diarrhea 30 mins ago, his stomach is so huge like a ball. Its 3am in the morning and i dont have any 24 hours vets near me, I will have to wait the night out. Is there any way i could help him till its open? My sister and her husband bought a yorkie for their 3 year old. She holds on too tightly, pulls the dogs ears and fur, etc. The dog constantly tries to bite her. How can the family teach their 3 yr old and teach the dog to live together and the right way to play? Most cats do not chew their food, or may crush once before swallowing. Usually this will happy once in a while We have an older Beagle 14+ years who has recently started going into the bedroom and barking a single bark. He will switch to a different bedroom and do the same. It seems that he wants us to come to where he is at but I am wondering if there is something wrong. Is he in pain or just being a pain? My name is Maria. I have a 3 mons old female persian cat given by my relative. It makes me sad. I will bring her to her first vet visit next week. Our one year old lab is having symptoms of listlessness, pain, fever, high white blood cell count, fever, weight loss and dehydration. Initially she was given antibiotics and pain medication and she began to improve but about two days later she declined again. She was seen by Dr. Shulz at Companion Pet two additional times and was given more antibiotics, tape worm meds even though fecal test was negative for worms and pain medication. We changed her diet to boneless skinless chicken breast, rice, peas, and cottage cheese. She immediately improved after the diet change but, sadly she began to decline again. Over the last three weeks she has lost a lot of weight and is beginning to look like a skeleton. We have spent hundreds on medical bills just trying to find an answer. Through ought all of this she is eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing normally. She only vomited once in the first week of showing symptoms. Blood test was normal except for high white blood cell count. Kidney and liver functions showed normal. X rays showed nothing of concern. Aja continues to suffer in pain, and we feel helpless. Our next step is to take her to a specialist, which is going to be much more costly but our only goal is to help Aja feel better. I am the owner of an 8 year old beagle. Over the last 6 weeks I noticed she began losing a lot of weight, had discharge, had some bloody discharge, lost her appetite, and will squat multiple times to releave herself outside. We took her to the vet where they tried 2 different types of antibiotics hoping it would fight off a Urinary Tract Infection. After neither one worked, a urine culture was taken and it did not show any signs of an infection. We then took her to get an ultra sound of her lower abdomen where they think they found some inflamed lymph nodes around her bladder. The vet now thinks she could have lymphoma but is not really sure at all. The next step is to get a chest X-ray to see if there is any swelling up there and to take a blood test. We are really hoping it is not cancer…she seems too young to show these extreme signs for cancer over a short 6 week span. Then, prescribed narcotics that causes her to not have an appetite for dry or wet food. On her follow-up, vet visit, she made a complete 180 after receiving a blood transfusion she did not reject it. She has made a complete recovery and we want to keep it that way!! Please offer any and all advice, that will benefit this special fighter!! My husky mixed with golden retriever is 15 years old. I let her outside to go to the bathroom and within an hour she developed a lump under her right eye. She still eats and drinks with our problems. What should I do? We have a 7 year old Golden Retriver, suddenly a couple of weeks ago, she became listless and stopped eating. We took her to the vet after two days. A basic exam was done that showed no abnormalities, she was injected fluids, given special diet food and anti vomiting medication and a blood test next day showed elevated calcium and other markers showing possible kidney disease. She was prescribed amoxillin 500MG and prednisolone 5MG during the time she was taking the medicine she became her normal self and a second blood test showed normal functi
