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Common Disease Symptons
of Cats & Dogs

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Cats

  1. Eye discharge or redness

  2. Ear redness or itchiness or discharge

  3. Red gums or a red gumline bordering the teeth

  4. Change of voice or vocal patterns

  5. Nasal discharge

  6. Coughing or breathing hard

  7. Appetite - eats little bits and often, finicky, won’t eat meat, will eat cooked meat but not raw meat, or ravenous appetite.

  8. Increasing thirst

  9. Vomiting - any type of food, liquid or hairballs; "sensitive stomach" to food changes

  10. Spraying urine, gradually standing up in litter box with one foot on the side of the box while urinating, urinating more often, straining to urinate, crying when urinating; running away from litter box after urinating.

  11. Soft stools, hard or dry stools, change in stool consistency with diet change, running away from the litter box after defecating, passing stools outside the litter box; "sensitive stomach" to food changes.

  12. Dark discharge around the bases of nails

  13. Itchy skin, dandruff

  14. Rough, dry, lusterless haircoat; a change in hair color

  15. Fears of noises, people, etc.

  16. Quarrelsome, aggressive to people or other animals

  17. Change in sleep patterns

  18. Overweight or too thin

  19. Eating plastic/paper/string/etc.

  20. gassiness

  21. Behavior problems -- aggression, fearful, lurine marking, etc.

  22. Car sickness

  23. Missing hair

  24. Stiffness, walking more slowly, taking stairs more slowly

Dogs

  1. Eye discharge or redness

  2. Nose too dry, loss of pigment, nasal discharge

  3. Ears red or itchy or warm to touch, head shaking, ear discharge

  4. Retained baby teeth

  5. Red gum line bordering teeth

  6. Discharge at base of nails, nails crumbly or deformed

  7. Vomiting; "sensitive stomach" to food changes

  8. Eating non-food items such as rocks, sticks, plastic, clothing, feces, etc

  9. Gurgling in abdomen

  10. Passing offensive flatus (gas)

  11. Diarrhea or soft stool; might be after different food item eaten

  12. Anal gland problems - need to be emptied by the vet or groomer, licking the anus, scooting rear end along the floor

  13. Overweight or too thin

  14. Itchy skin -licking feet a lot, rubbing face or ears, chewing on legs

  15. Noticeable body odor

  16. Warts, lumps

  17. Walking stiffly or lameness, getting up slowly from lying down or sitting positions, difficulty going from standing to sitting position

  18. Behavior problems - fear of noises, people, storms , of separation from owner, aggression to people or other animals, destructiveness, running away from home, hyperactive or not listening to owner, etc..

  19. Increasing thirst

  20. Urinating too often, straining to urinate, urine incontinence (leaking out)

  21. Car sickness

  22. Loss of pigment of foot pads; haircoat color changes

  23. Missing hair

  24. Appetite decrease or appetite ravenous

 


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