If you think your pet may be pregnant, it is worth taking them to the vet’s to be checked out. In the first few weeks of pregnancy, it is quite difficult to confirm whether your pet is pregnant, even with an ultrasound scan because the foetuses will be so small, they won’t be able to […]
Category: The Body
Physiotherapy and hydrotherapy
You will often find that, after orthopaedic surgery, or even in some cases, for arthritic animals or problems that they’ve had with joints, that you will be advised to take your pet for hydrotherapy or for physiotherapy. This is used very much as it is in the human world, it is all about recovery and […]
Anal glands in dogs and cats
Anal glands are found in dogs and cats. They are not very important to the animal nowadays. They used to be used for scent marking out in the wild, so it would help protect their domain, warn off other dogs, that kind of thing. Nowadays, dogs are mostly owned, so they do not need them […]
Pet food and why it is important for a healthy diet for dogs and cats
There’s a lot of money spent formulating pet food for dogs and cats and foods for other species as well. It’s really important that dogs and cats get everything they need from their diets, and most of those diets are going to be complete diets. Cats and dogs have different requirements for nutrients in their […]
Respiratory system
Respiratory systems function is the intake of oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide. The anatomy of the system is the nose and the mouth. We then go down to the pharynx, the larynx, the trachea, and the primary bronchi, the bronchioles, and then the alveoli. Here is a model of an anatomical model. For […]
Nervous system
Nervous system is a complex but important system of the body. Due to the symbiotic nature of the nervous system and muscular systems the two combined often referred to as the neuromuscular system. At its simplest level, the nervous system is a communications network which has three basic elements of, sensation, analysis and response. The sensation […]
Digestive system of dogs
Digestive system is a complex system and when running correctly it is very effective in processing food to feed the body and to getting rid of waste food out of the body. Digestion is defined as the process where food is broken down ready to be absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed around the body. […]