Does Your Dog Catch a Cold?

As a dog owner, he should be pay attention to his dog's health status and know some basic information about it so that he will make right judgement when his pet are not well. Sometimes, pet dogs may b...

As a dog owner, he should be pay attention to his dog's health status and know some basic information about it so that he will make right judgement when his pet are not well.

Sometimes, pet dogs may be infected with some diseases that just like a common flu, such as early stages of canine distemper and canine parvovirus. The symptoms of these diseases mainly include increased body temperature, sneeze, light fear, tears, liquid nose drops, which are very similar to colds. Some pet owners may take such symptoms as common flus and the wrong judgement may miss the best chances for treatment and cause serious consequences.

Though such false cold symptoms are commonly seen in early stages of some infectious diseases,?the owners could identify them from other specific symptoms. When dogs are infected the canine distemper, the body temperature will have acute changes and some dogs may start to have eye waste. For the early parvovirus, dogs may have vomiting, diarrhea and other major symptoms, and vomiting generally happens after catapults. As long as hosts have close observation at their dogs, they can make the right resolutions. Whenever dogs have flu similar symptoms, timely medical solutions should be taken. If the hosts have no related inexperienced, send dogs to animal hospitals to prevent any unexpected mistakes.

Generally, there are two kinds of colds for dogs, one occurs in early spring and late autumn or in sudden climate change. They are usually caused by cold stimulation when dogs are asleep or caught in rains. The main symptoms include low spirit, anorexia, eye mucous flushes, coughs, fast breath and rising body temperature, etc. If it's not taken seriously, it may have concurrent bronchitis, bronchitis and other diseases. The other one is flu, caused by a virus infection. The symptoms include fevers and conjunctivitis.

Thus, the simple way for inexperienced dog hosts is to take sick dogs to animal institutions for professional veterinary treatment.