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"Unknown" Sickness of my rooster
My rooster presents some symptoms: weakness in legs, he has (I suppose) plantar pododermatitis that seems to be advanced because I notice swelling and cracks, he also shows drowsiness and no longer ...
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Male Platy clamping fins and hiding
I got 7 coral red platy for a planted ten gallon tank about two months ago. The water conditions are very good and the temperature is 76. I have 3 males and 4 females, and they have been breeding so I ...
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Why does my cat have two bald spots, and how do I get her to a vet if I cannot drive?
Due to being on computer i cannot get any pictures to add right now.
a little about my cat:
she is a 6-7 year old tuxedo cat and has no back teeth. She was declawed by her former owners and is ...
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My kissing gourami having spots. Help!
I have 1 kissing gourami. My favorite fish in my aquarium. But few days I noticed that my kissing gourami having black spots on its scales and fins. And my kissing gourami sits at the bottom of the ...
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Zoe, 19 months old cat, British Shorthair, refusing to eat due to digestive issues
Greetings to all members of the cats community,
I am truly desperate for any help or guidance you’d be able to offer.
3 days ago my cat lost her interest in food and started vomiting and I took her to ...
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Is it ear mites or just dirty ears?
My kitten sometimes has blackish-brown wax in her ears that I clean out with a ball of cotton. I've read cats get coffee-grounds-looking ear wax when they have ear mites but she doesn't show any sign ...
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How can I help my betta, who has a white-ish sore on his side, is laying at the bottom of the tank, and isn't eating?
This is Ringo.
I’ve had him for almost 2 years and he’s been happy until the last week or so. He lives in a 1 gallon (3.8 L) tank (I know it’s small, blame the Petsmart employee who suggested it) and ...
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My cat has stopped having food since its kittens passed away
Our cat has stopped having food after its 2 kittens passed away last week (the remaining one was adopted 2 weeks ago). It's been 4 days since it had anything to eat or drink, except water which is not ...
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My cat threw up once, should I be worried?
My cat threw up this morning what looked to be food he recently ate. He is 2 years old, perfectly healthy otherwise as far as I can tell, and hasn't had any other negative signs. Nonetheless, it is ...
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Common goldfish with "bleeding" around face, gills and fins
I look after two common goldfish in a 56L filtered tank with an airstone for additional aeration. Over the past two days, one of the fish has been appearing to be sick, suffering with what I can only ...
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Can cat with pyometra be allowed to mate and get pregnant?
My cat was diagnosed having a pyometra. I'm thinking: if I allow her to mate and get pregnant, will it be okay? And will it help my cat with recovering from pyometra?
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My Amelanistic Corn Snake is turning yellow?
This is my corn snake, Pyro, I just got him out today to feed him. Last week when I got him out, I didn't notice any different colors, but he had a yellow tint around his face/upper body. His ...
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How urgent is a UTI in dogs?
We think my puppy has a UTI; she's house-trained but she keeps having accidents, keeps signaling to go out but not going, and last night she peed in bed with my partner. Do we go to the emergency vet? ...
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How worried should I be about this cough?
My dog began showing symptoms by throwing up; after that, she's made horrible hacking noises every so often like she wants to throw up but can't. I think this is a "cough"? It doesn't sound ...
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Ochrobactrum intermedium infection in a dog
My vet found a bacteria in my dog's wound: Ochrobactrum intermedium
He does not know this bacteria and therefore does not know what antibiotic to give.
Unfortunately, the condition of my dog is ...
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Coughing fits in cats
My cat started to display some coughing behaviour. I have seen him cough just once in the last year but last week, he coughed three times, and all coughing sessions take like twenty seconds. There ...
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Cat struggling to walk, but has no leg or spine issues
My cat recently began to struggle to walk. It looked like his back legs were hurting quite a bit and he would not walk to the food/water or the cat box. If I brought him there he would eat/drink a ...
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My rabbit's hair looks wet and dirty and it’s getting worse
I recently bought a rabbit from pet store and it's been a week that my rabbit hair has changed. It looks like the hair around the mouth, nose and stomach is dirty and wet and it's not getting better. ...
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Belly Lump with Black Liquid Inside on 9-week-old Pup
First post - sorry for bad quality. I need help fast while my girlfriend takes my pup to the emergency vet.
My 9-week-old female Goldendoodle pup developed a lump this morning and it became ...
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Feline hyperesthesia
My 8 year old cat has just been diagnosed with feline hyperesthesia. Out of the blue she began attacking her tail. She’s wearing a cone and taking 4 daily medications. Is it manageable? Or am I going ...
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Could my dog get infected with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and suffer from COVID-19?
I have heard, that dogs too could get the actual coronavirus. Is this real?
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Cat has wound above eye and on head
I am very worried because my British short hair cat has this wound at the eye and yesterday when I see it didn't have blood or anything, just the scalp. But when at night I checked, it had blood and ...
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My betta is sinking, and we've tried everything. Looking for non-generic/mind-blowing advice
I have had this betta for about two years now, since he was a baby. A couple of months ago he started having trouble swimming. He would swim upwards, but could not stay there - instead, he would sink ...
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Goldfish skin around the intestine area is gone and stomach looks to be caved in
This is my first time posting so I’m sorry if I made any mistakes with my post.
I think I’m going to lose one of my goldfish. About 2-3 weeks ago both of my goldfish (I only have 2) developed ammonia ...
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German Shepherd with horrible smelling oral tumor
Our German Shepherd has had this growing tumor for a year and half. It has grown so big and has destroyed her teeth and the inside of her mouth. The tumor smells SO BAD we don’t know what to do. ...
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My bunny is making a new noise I’ve never heard before and I was wondering if anyone has ever heard a similar noise from another bunny?
My 3-month old lionhead bunny has started making a new noise. She previously was ill with the snuffles, completed a course of antibiotic. She was never very ill with the snuffles just very sneezy and ...
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What disease causes a dog to lose their vision seemingly over night?
My dog's eyes have suddenly gone cloudy, and I would have noticed that long before now. It wasn't until my dog's vision was gone that I noticed any changes in her eyes.
She couldn't make it back on ...
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What is this fish disease?
I had 4 platies and 5 danios but there are only 1 platy and 4 danios left. mysteriously, they die in the same manner, like sinking to the bottom of the tank and resting there. I was wondering if they ...
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Senior dog feeling down and shaking
My dog is a female chihuahua, around over 10 years old (I found her on the street and don't know exact age).
For the past 4 weeks, she progressively started to shake a little as if she was cold, but ...
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How do I know if I should put my betta fish, with swim bladder disease, down? [duplicate]
I just got my betta fish a little over a month ago. When I first brought him home he was floating on his side at the top of his cup. At the time I didn’t realize that was a symptom of swim bladder ...
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How to cure my 8 week old kitten's orange diarrhea? [duplicate]
4 days ago I adopted a little kitten who looked really sick and didn't eat for days. She seems 8 weeks old and doesn't have a mother. When I fed her hours later, she started leaking yellow diarrhea ...
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Fever and diarrhea in 4 month old kitten
I have a 4 month old kitten which was very active and playful. However, it seems sick as of two days ago. It's eating much less food and sleeping all the time. It has an increased body temperature, ...
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Cat with kidney disease
My cat Jack, aged 11, had skin condition about April 1st. Mange was diagnosed and treated over three week period. It seemed fine and then he fell ill again. Vet thought it was respiratory infection ...
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Bearded dragon skin condition
We have adopted a bearded dragon, over the last few months his skin has deteriorated at first we thought it was him shedding but his now nearly finished his shed and it seems to be worse than before. ...
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Goldfish with white spot/fungal infection/something else?
Does anyone know what this is and how to treat it? One has a white lump near its eye, the other some white stuff at the end of its fan tail. Both are usually in a pond with others, but are currently ...
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My cat has been diagnosed with 4th stage of chronic renal failure. Is the saline infusion worth it?
My cat is 10 years old and he has been diagnosed with chronic renal failure. I feel so bad for not noticing until the last minute. He was supposed to stay at the hospital for a week and have the ...
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Cat with kidney disease eats wet dog food, but shuns most cat food
Since my cat is old (17) and has kidney disease I Try to give her whatever she will eat. She won't touch the canned cat food anymore, and I don't often see her eating the dry food. She will eat scraps ...
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My 18 year old Musk turtle has some soft areas on his plastron
My 18 year old Musk turtle has some soft areas on his plastron. They also bend a bit. Is this ok? There are no exotic vets in my area so I am not sure what to.
He eats dry turtle pellets and he has ...
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How does RHD/RHD2 transmit from rabbit to rabbit?
There aren't many infections which would be more evil than RHD and RHD2 for rabbits.
How can they spread?
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Really Red rash looking swollen nipples
My female Pitt just had puppies and she has a really bad I don't even know what it is a rash or I don't know but it's all over her stomach and nipples and her nipples are really swollen bad um I don't ...
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How do you know if your horse/s have mange? How do you treat it?
My horses have been getting itchy legs, some are missing hair on their faces and chests. This is not improving with the usual treatments of insect repellants, for flies.
There's a lot of ticks on ...
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Ichthyophthiriasis control in tanks, nitrites and nitrates
I have recently returned my fish to my main tank, a 65 g, after treating two weeks for ichthyophthiriasis. Two days after treatment ended, I transferred my larger fish home to a fully planted tank and ...
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Spots on cat's nose
I have recently noticed several spots on my black cat's nose. At first I thought they were just dust spots, but they don't wipe off and have a slightly raised texture. He seems to have developed a few ...
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Will ichthyophthiriasis medicine harm my betta if he doesnt actually have ich?
A few days ago I noticed a spot on my betta's side just next to his gills. It wasn't completely white in color but definitely lighter than the rest of his body. I tested his water and there was an ...
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Parasitic worm from dog?
Last evening I found two small white worms crawling frantically across my white comforter on my bed attempting to burrow into it.. this after my roommate’s dog slept on my bed leaving copious amounts ...
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Why is there brown stuff in my dog's ear?
I don't know when this happened.
Just a moment ago my dog started to scratch his ears kind a rough,I though it was weird so I check his ears and I see this.
What happened here ? I'm really worried ...
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How to treat a 20 year old cat with pancreatitis?
The vet said my 20 year old cat has pancreatitis and possibly parasites. Would you give her an antibiotic? How would you treat her?
ALT. (sgpt). 112
BUN. 51
Precision psl. 42
Lymphocytes. 954
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Help with kidney failure in dogs/not eating
My chi (10yrs) developed kidney failure, and Dr's said he is a miracle because I've been keeping him alive for 3 yrs. I give sub q IV lactated ringers 3xwk, give Phosphorous reducing med, and make ...
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My goldfish's entire wen is gone, please help me!
So 2 days ago we cleaned the tank, all fish were fine. It took 24 hours for the water to clear up and all the fish were still fine, but I noticed a piece of fish poop stuck to the head of my baby ...
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How can I help my sick leopard gecko?
Two years ago my brother got a pet leopard gecko. We still don't know it's gender but I will say him.
For two years he was fine and looked healthy had a fat tail and ate fine. The only problem was ...
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