Dog Illnesses Symptoms

 

Our Dog is certainly part of the family. Everyone must ensure their dog is healthy, and happy all the time. Nevertheless, sometimes they may get sick and behaviour changes may reveal some kind of illness.

Here you have a few signs of dog illnesses symptoms that you should know:

Dry nose

 

You should check by touching his/her nose gently. In some cases, by just watching closely is enough to detect they are sick. Their behaviour will change, feeling down, depress etc. However, there are other reasons that can cause you dog to have a dry nose - he/she may be dehydrated, causing the reduction of liquid production inside your dog's body which lead to other kind of dog illnesses symptoms. If the temperature is hot around your dog, then he can have temporary dry nose.

Significant increase or decrease in weight

 

losing weight is a sign of illness, so if your little fellow is underweight, then you must go to your vet immediately. The basic treatment for underweight is giving more food and exercise. In case of overweight, usually happened when your dog eat the left over food from humans, over eat when they feel bored, etc. There are different reasons for overweight, so you must be alert to detect any dog illnesses symptoms.

Increased water consumption and Increased urination, weight-loss

 

This may be the sign that your dog is having diabetes . The treatment for this is controlling insuline and special diet course given by your vet.

Changes in behavior

 

Yor dog illness signs can also be seen by symptoms such as when he/she sleeps all day or sleeps less than usual. In some cases, lethargy and irritation.

Loss of appetite

 

There are many reasons why your dog may eat less or stop eating. Problems with teeth and chewing, having depression feeling, stomach problem caused by food that was eaten earlier, constipated, adjusting problems due to change in season and temperature, kidney, problems which is mainly cause by eating commercial food, having heart disease and cancer etc. The basic treatments for loss of appetite is to give different food everyday. If that doesn't work, then you should talk with your veterinary to find the exact cause of this problems