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The most common serious injuries involve hemorrhage, bone dislocations or fractures and internal injuries. Where there is serious external hemorrhage, and a veterinarian is not immediately available, some effort must be made to stop it. This can be done by wrapping some gauze around the wound, covering this with a liberal amount of absorbent cotton, and bandaging snugly. Then wrap the animal in a warm blanket and contact a veterinarian.
Mumps refers to a type of abscess that merits special attention. It has to do with the socalled parotid glands, which are salivary glands lying in a diffuse area behind and slightly below the ears. An inflammation of these glands is parotitis, or, as it is popularly known, mumps. It may occur in both acute and chronic forms. In the acute involvement, the outcome is usually favorable, whereas the chronic form is much less responsive to treatment.
During the cooler seasons of the year, or in places where the climate is generally cool, very young puppies can be encouraged to stay in the bed by placing a heating pad or a hotwater bag wrapped in a towel into the box. This is very comforting to the animal. The animal should be placed in the bed several times a day, always with the heating pad or hotwater bag, so that it comes to associate pleasantness with the experience. In a very few days the animal will enter the box of its own accord. In warmer weather, the associaton of pleasantness may be achieved by giving the animal a tidbit every time it is put into the box.
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When the animal becomes strong enough and if the weather is agreeable, the animal is broken to the outside. With older pups, or with pups acquired during the warm seasons, it will save time to break the animal directly to the outside.
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Although dogs do get hepatitis, it may be different in cause and effect from human hepatitis. There is what is called Infectious Canine Hepatitis. This disease is caused by a virus, and may prove to be a fatal disease in some dogs. This disease is caused by the CAV-1 ? an adenovirus. Dogs typically acquire this virus from contact ? either through inhalation or ingestion ? of urine, eye secretions, and nasal secretions of infected dogs. This type of virus does not affect humans or other animals, only dogs.
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Tumors are peculiar growths of tissue, of variable size, that most often are neither warm nor sensitive to the touch, may range from hard to quite soft, are fleshy in character, and seem to thrive independently of the state of nutrition of the body. They occur more commonly in older dogs than in younger ones and are a frequent cause of death. They may be present for months or years without any apparent discomfort or detriment to the animal, but are more favorably treated in the early stages.
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