Interdigital Cysts in Dogs

An Easy, Effective, Inexpensive Treatment   Interdigital cysts are not really cysts at all.  The interdigital eruptions that sometimes appear between a dog’s toes are boils that are technically called furuncles.  The painful nodular lesions that erupt between the interdigital webs of dogs are usually caused by a deep bacterial infection.  These lesions or boils are most common in dog breeds with short bristly hair.  The short hairs get traumatically forced ...

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Snake Bite: SimpleTwo-Part Solution to Protect Your Bulldog

    Several species of snakes enjoy the lush, green paradise of East Texas as much as our Olde English Bulldogges.  Last spring we had five snakebites to four bulldogs.  We are thankful that even though multiple bulldogs have been bitten by snakes, we have never lost a dog to a snakebite.   It is a fact: No snakes, no snakebites   Although many products on the market today claim to keep snakes at bay, we have not found any magic solution tha ...

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For Fear and Anxiety

The Thundershirt Really Works Emmett has always been afraid of thunder and lightning, gunshots and fireworks.  His anxiety during a thunderstorm has kept us up many, many nights.  Emmett's noise anxiety issue is so severe that he has uncontrollable  trembling  and heavy panting for hours at a time.  Anytime the skies start to rumble we turn on music or the TV in an attempt to drown out the troubling noise.   We are not ones to buy gimmicky type products.  Wh ...

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Keep Your Dog Trim

 For Health and Longevity   Keeping your pet trim is the one most important thing you can do to improve health and increase life span. Over weight puppies have too much stress on their joints. A puppy’s joints are not developed well enough to carry extra weight. The excessive weight will stretch developing ligaments allowing the joints to loosen which may add to degenerative joint disease later, especially in larger breeds. The extra weight in adult dogs stresses the entir ...

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Sweet Play to Swallowing a Foreign Object

  Gibson’s Roller Coaster Christmas Vacation    Jamie and Stacey Gillis brought home a wonderful Christmas present for Gibson, their 5-year-old Olde English Bulldogge.  Taylor, an insightout puppy, joined their happy family on December 17, 2011. The next morning we were delighted they shared this video of the happy pair. On December 29th we received the following email update. Bobbye,  Thanks very much for Taylor’s papers and the Christmas ...

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