Animal Hospital of Parkland PLLC

Animal Hospital of Parkland PLLC is located in Tacoma, United States on 12212 Pacific Ave S. Animal Hospital of Parkland PLLC is rated 4.6 out of 5 in the category animal hospital in United States. Smart at Looking for Pet Daycare – Not all pet daycares are reliable. For this, do not choose pet daycare carelessly, find the tricks and tips here. search expand Skip to content Smart at Looking for Pet Daycare Not all pet daycares are reliable. For this, do not choose pet daycare carelessly, find the tricks and tips here. Menu Home discussion forum what to do when a pet gets sick? Look After Injured Dog Posted on August 5, 2018November 19, 2018 by Rahmat What do you feel if your dog gets any personal injuries? Of course, you will feel sad, especially if you love your pet so much. This problem usually happens because dog is hit by motorcycle or car, bitten by other wild animals, wounded by bad guys, and so on. Some dog owners decide to throw their pet in certain places, especially after looking and knowing that their dog gets serious injuries. Do you do the same thing if your dog gets any injuries? If you answer yes, you already do the big mistake because you will be assumed as a bad dog owner. The true answer is you should bring your dog to pet clinic as soon as possible to get the right treatment. Alternatively, you have to do these: Use bandage to close its injury The first thing you should do is using bandage to close its injury. This is important to make injury free from bacteria, dirt, and dust so injury can dry up fast. Remember not to bind bandage too hard unless you want to make your dog get more pain. Besides, you should replace old bandage with new one once three days so you can give medicine to injury and then close it again. Make sure that you do these carefully so you are not bitten by your dog because it feels threatened and gets pain. Avoid bringing it outside If you know that your dog is still not in good condition, avoid bringing it outside. You have to let it take enough rest in its cage. You should look after its injury as well as possible first and make sure that it is fine before bringing it outside. As you probably know that its injury can make it get pain if it does many movements. What if your family members don’t know about this and bring it outside? You should find and take it as soon as possible. Explain to your family members that your dog is in healing process which makes it have to take enough rest. Feed it routinely In general, dog will lose its appetite when getting injury. It usually takes a sleep all day. It is normal but this does not mean that you should let this happen as such. You have to feed it routinely. If your dog does not want to eat, provide milk because it usually wants to drink to support its body. If needed, you have to help it eat by feeding it like a baby. This sounds weird but this is useful for its health. Keep in mind not to force it too much so it is not depressed and stressed. Last but not least, you have to remain taking care of it as usual so your pet does not stress out and feel sad. If it is happy, it will get its health back as soon as possible. Anyway, if you get difficulty in doing this, ask for help from experts or your family members who know more about taking care of injured dog. Posted in Dog, Tips Tagged Dog gets injury, Treatment Leave a Comment on Look After Injured Dog Three Rabies Phases You Should Know Posted on July 29, 2018August 1, 2018 by Rahmat Rabies is dangerous virus attacking mammals, like dog. If dog which is infected by this virus bites people, they will deal with organ function disorder and death. Based on some researches, there are already 50,000 people died because of rabies. Therefore, government asks animal control department to catch wild mammals so the risks of dealing with rabies can be minimized. Anyway, do you have a dog?If you answer yes, you should know three rabies phases of dog below so you can bring your pet to veterinarian as soon as possible and save it and your security: Prodromal After being infected by this virus for 2-3 days, dog will show weird activities although it looks normal. In general, it likes biting something around it, deals with fever, loses appetite, and looks passive. Besides, its voice will change when barking. Unfortunately, most dog owners don’t know about this and some of them ignore this condition. If your lovely dog shows this phase, you are highly recommended to bring it to pet care as soon as possible. This is important to do because if it passes this phase, you will get difficulty in making its health back. Veterinarian will inject and quarantine it for couple days till it is fine. Don’t be sad if you cannot see your dog anymore because it is good for you and your dog. Mad dog syndrome In this phase, your pet will be mad and very aggressive. It does not like you when closing it. Even, it does not doubt to bite you or people around it. It will forget your love and you will be shocked when looking its weird activities. When looking this phase, you should call animal control department as soon as possible to catch and quarantine it as soon as possible. You might not get it back if virus takes over its body and veterinarian gets difficulty in healing it. Besides, you have to be ready to deal with complaining from people who are beaten. You have to be responsible because it is your dog. Anyway, aside from beating anyone around it, in this phase, it will also bark anytime although there is no one or no something closing it, show wide eye pupil, deal with disorientation, look afraid and anxious, and get paralyzed which makes it get difficulty in standing up. Besides, it will be not obedient and afraid of various threats. Paralytic The possibility to save your dog is very small when entering paralytic phase. This happens because virus already spreads throughout the body and paralyzes all organs. Dog will get difficulty in breathing, moving and closing its mouth. Besides, it will salivate continuously which makes you feel disgusted. In couple days after dealing with this phase, dog will die and you will lose your lovely pet. If it is your first dog, you will feel very sad because of this problem. Hopefully, you take care of your pet as well as possible. Realize about these rabies phases so you can save your pet as soon as possible. Posted in Dog, Rabies Tagged Paralytic, Prodmoral, Syndrome, Virus Leave a Comment on Three Rabies Phases You Should Know Understand Cause of Stress in Dog Posted on June 16, 2018June 6, 2018 by Rahmat Not a few people who want to make dogs as pets. Not because of the dog’s loyalty to her employer. In fact, there are many films that tell how loyal a dog to the owner. In addition, dogs are also known for intelligent animals. It is also an attraction itself to maintain it. How about you? Interested in maintaining dogs? Then you must understand all about dogs before adopting them. One of the causes of stress in dogs with characteristics such as bite whatever object in front of him, decreased appetite, tend to be silent & weak, the body getting thinner, barking constantly, looking away, etc. Stress in dogs certainly cannot be underestimated because it could endanger health and safety. Below are some of the causes of stress in dogs that you should know. Environmental factor The new environment is one of the factors that stress the dog. However, stress due to this factor will usually decrease over time. When the dog is able to adjust to his new environment, the stress he faces will disappear slowly. Not just newly adopted dogs, long-reared dogs will also feel stressed if the neighborhood is not comfortable. For example because it is too hot or too cold, dirty, or so forth. Therefore, you should really pay attention to the environment where dogs live so that dogs always feel comfortable. Make sure the air circulation where he lived smoothly, always cleaned regularly, and so on. Against disease Another factor that can cause the dog stress is the disease. For that, when the dog is experiencing signs of stress, try to invite the vet. Could be the middle dog disease. If it is true the disease, the treatment can be done so that it can increase the chances of recovery. Dog-borne diseases can sometimes be transmitted to you through saliva, touch, scratching, or feces. Therefore, it would be nice to prevent dogs from getting sick. The trick is to provide healthy foods (not raw meat, chocolate, cow’s milk, cheese, or other), regularly vaccinate, bathe and dry it regularly, does not forget to take exercise. Treatment as an improper owner Before adopting a dog, you must understand how to treat it. In this case, you can get the right way of treating newly adopted dogs from puppycolours.com. If you do not have plenty of time, ask the trainer to come to the house. Therefore, mistakes in treating dogs will make it stressful. The mistakes in treating pet dogs should be avoided as well as hitting him when making a mistake, delivering late food, holding it constantly, holding in an inappropriate position, etc. If the pet dog is moody, lazy to eat, constantly barking, biting things, or other, it’s a sign of stress. The cause could be due to environmental factors, disease, or your treatment is less precise. It’s good to find a solution to this problem because prolonged stress can be bad for dogs. Hopefully this information can be useful for all of you who want to keep the dog for the guard of the house or just become a playmate. Posted in Dog, Pet Tagged Stress in Dog Leave a Comment on Understand Cause of Stress in Dog FAQ before Adopting Pet Posted on June 4, 2018June 6, 2018 by Rahmat There are many people interested in adopting pet. They have different reasons for this. Some of them think that they can get peace in mind and comfort if they take care of pet and some others want to have friends which can accompany them when having free time. Unfortunately, after having pet, some adopters don’t look after it as well as possible and even they like torturing it. This is a bad thing that has to be avoided. If they cannot take care of pet, they should not adopt it. Therefore, if you are keen on adopting pet, make sure that you answer these questions first so you don’t become a torturer: Are you ready to spend some money to buy its food? One of the ways to look after pet is feeding it regularly, minimum twice a day. Of course, you have to buy food and spend some dollars every month. The question is, are you ready to spend some money for this? If you often get difficulty in managing your money and still have some debts, it is better to cancel your plan. You should have good money management first and then consider adopting pet again. If you force yourself to remain adopting pet with bad money management, there is much possibility for you to deal with financial problem and get trapped in debts for a long time. It is better to have good life first than have pet, right? Do you have enough time to take care of it? If there is no problem with money, the next question to answer is do you have enough time to take care of it? It is good if you can feed it every day but it is a big deal if you just do this without inviting it to play, walking to garden, stroke it, clean its cage, and so on. You need to know that your pet will not be obedient. In contrast, it might be wild and stressed out fast. Realize that pet also needs your love and fondling. You should have free time for it. What do you do if pet brings any problems? Having pet you should be ready to deal with any animal problems. For instance, if you adopt kitten, you have to be ready to deal with its flea problem or if you have puppy, you should know how to deal with its injury. You need to know that virus can attack your pet and make it get sick. The worst part is the virus can also attack you so you have to be treated in hospital. Imagine that the virus is rabies, of course this will make you panic. Yup, rabies makes your organs unable to work as usual and if you don’t get medical treatment optimally, you can pass away. For this, you are suggested to know about pet first so you know what you should and should not do when it deals with any problems. By answering these questions, are you still interested in adopting pet? Posted in Pet, Tips Tagged Puppy, Time Leave a Comment on FAQ before Adopting Pet What Makes Dog Stress out Posted on May 4, 2018June 6, 2018 by Rahmat Was your dog seen passive or weird recently? If you answer yes, it might stress out. This is a bad condition because it might show bad things like barking continuously, biting people carelessly, and losing appetite. In the long run, it will get sick and go to die. To avoid dealing with this problem, you have to make dog free from stressed out. How? You have to know about the cause first so you can find the right solution to overcome this problem. In general, there are three things that make it stress out: Threat Do you often threat your dog by hitting its cage or pretend to hit it? If you do, realize that you can make pet afraid and depressed. If you continue doing this, there is much possibility to make it stress out. This condition will make it passive and afraid of looking you. Besides, it might bark and will run when meeting you. Therefore, stop doing this. If you don’t like it or you are angry with pet, you should just enter it into cage. No more action to do, including snapping it. Cage How long you enter dog into cage? If you do this all days, in the long run, it will stress out. Why? Dog feels depressed and unhappy. When you release it, it might run as fast as possible to leave you or it will not leave its cage. It might decide to live in cage forever. If your pet loses its instinct and mood, you will bother yourself to make it get normal. The worst part is it might bite you when closing it. For this, you should release it minimum for one or two hours a day. If you have free time, invite it to walk to garden together. In other hand, if your pet is obedient in which it can take a poop and pee in toilet or provided place to do those activities, you may release it inside your home all day. Make sure that it cannot go outside and you provide enough foods. By doing this, there is no reason for your dog to deal with stressed out. Virus The worst thing of all these causes is virus and the dangerous virus for dog is rabies. Your pet will show weird actions when being infected by this virus. It will bark without clear reasons and bite you and other people carelessly. This dangerous disease also makes it lose appetite and control of its organs so it gets difficulty in standing up at last. Can your dog be saved? Of course the answer is yes as long as virus does not spread to all organs yet. When looking your dog passive and weird, bring it to pet clinic as soon as possible to check and know what is going on. If it is infected by virus, veterinarian will inject vaccine to make it get its health back. This takes a process in which your pet should be quarantine for a while. 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