Pet Diseases: Healthy Pets Make Healthy People

Pets are prone to many illnesses. Hence, they shouldcause extreme irritation to the pet leading to skin
be taken care of very well and also monitoreddisorders and skin diseases. Ear mites can cause
regularly for any symptom of ill health to keep theirsevere diseases and annoyance in the pet commonly
well being. A pet can be a happy companion toin cats and dogs. Hence, it needs to be treated well
human being only if it is healthy.by taking the pets to the veterinarian.
Some of the symptoms of pet diseases causing illRabies: Rabies is one of the deadly pet diseases
health:caused by a virus which attacks the pet's nervous
Loss of appetite, excessive gain or loss of weight,system. Normally rabies is transmitted by the bite
excess water consumption, abnormal discharges offrom a rabid animal. It is not necessary that all rabid
the nose, eyes etc., abnormal, difficult, uncontrolledanimals appear mad and foam at the mouth. Many
waste elimination, lethargy, abnormal behavior, suddeninfected pets can be very tame and calm. Rabies
viciousness, limping, abnormal lumps, finding difficult toaffects only mammals. It does not affect reptiles,
get up or lie down, dandruff, open sores, dull coat orbirds, fish or amphibians.
ragged coat, excessive head shaking, scratching,Types of cancer in pets:
biting or licking any particular part of the body, tartarCancer is a common pet disease and it accounts for
on the teeth, foul breath etc.almost 50% of the deaths of the pets over 10 years
Common pet diseases:of age. Some cancer types like the breast cancer can
Lyme disease: This is an infectious disease spread bybe prevented to a large extent with early spaying,
a tick, which is not larger than the head of the pin inwhereas other types of cancers are very difficult to
size. It is caused by a bacterium called spirochetebe prevented since the causes are not known
transmitted to the pets and humans by the tick bite.properly.
If not treated properly it may lead to heart diseasesCommonly found cancer types are skin tumors -
or neurological complications or joint damages andMore common among older dogs, but lesser among
kidney related problems in the pets.cats, breast tumors are seen both in dogs and cats.
Infestation due to internal parasites: Internal parasitesEarly spaying can reduce their incidence.
like the hookworms, tapeworms, heartworms andHead and neck cancer - The common disease is the
roundworms rob the pets of important nutrients,mouth cancer more in dogs and lesser in the cats.
causing fatigue, loss of appetite, anemia and evenCancer in the nose also seen in dogs and cats,
death. Especially puppies and kittens are very muchlymphoma is found in cats and dogs with an
susceptible to these kinds of infestations. This can beenlargement of one or more lymph nodes of the
very well controlled and prevented.body, testicular tumors are seen in the dogs and
Infestations due to external parasites: Pets arerarely in cats and bone tumors are common among
affected by external parasites like the lice, mites,large breed dogs and rarely seen in the cats.
fleas and ticks. They are found everywhere and can