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🐹Guinea Pig HealthMay 27, 2026

Guinea Pig Scurvy: Vitamin C Deficiency Signs and Treatment

Guinea pigs can't make vitamin C and develop scurvy in 2-4 weeks without it. Look for stiff gait, rough coat, and bleeding gums. Here's how to treat and pr

🐈Cat HealthMay 27, 2026

Cat Corneal Ulcer Signs: When an Eye Problem Becomes Urgent

Cat corneal ulcers show as squinting, watery eye, cloudy spots, and pawing at the face. They can perforate the eye within days. Here's what to do.

🐕Dog HealthMay 27, 2026

Dog Anal Gland Abscess: Signs, Treatment, and When to Worry

A dog anal gland abscess shows up as a painful red swelling next to the rectum, scooting, and licking. It usually ruptures within days. Here's what to do.

🦎Reptile HealthMay 27, 2026

Bearded Dragon Mouth Rot: Signs, Treatment, and Husbandry Fixes

Mouth rot (infectious stomatitis) in bearded dragons shows as redness, yellow plaques, drooling, and refused food. Husbandry fixes are part of treatment.

🐈Cat HealthMay 27, 2026

🩺Chronic & Systemic

Cat Fatty Liver Disease: Hepatic Lipidosis Symptoms & Care

Hepatic lipidosis is the most common cat liver disease — overweight cats that stop eating for 2-3 days are at high risk. Here's what to watch for.

🦜Bird HealthMay 27, 2026

Parrot Feather Plucking: Causes, Workup, and Treatment Plan

Parrot feather plucking comes from medical or behavioral causes — usually both. A systematic workup identifies the underlying issue. Here's the framework.

🐾Pet HealthMay 27, 2026

Leopard Gecko Metabolic Bone Disease: Signs and Reversal

Leopard gecko MBD shows as soft jaw, kinked spine, and rubbery legs from calcium and vitamin D3 deficiency. Early cases are reversible with husbandry fixes

🐹Hamster HealthMay 27, 2026

🌿Skin & Coat

Hamster Tumors and Lumps: What's Worrying and What's Not

Hamster lumps over 12 months old are usually tumors (often benign). Abscesses and cysts also occur. Here's how to tell them apart and when surgery makes se

🐰Rabbit HealthMay 25, 2026

Rabbit Megacolon Symptoms: Cow-Pile Stool and Care

Rabbit megacolon causes chronic abnormal stools and weight loss, often in English Spot breeds. Here are signs, lifelong management, and prognosis.

🐹Hamster HealthMay 25, 2026

Hamster Polycystic Disease Signs: Distended Belly in Seniors

Hamster polycystic disease causes a slowly distending belly and weight loss in older hamsters. Here are signs, diagnosis, and supportive care.

🐾Pet HealthMay 25, 2026

Leopard Gecko Impaction Signs: Substrate Blockage and Care

Leopard gecko impaction from sand or oversized prey causes refusal to eat, bloated belly, and hind leg weakness. Here is what to do.

🐹Guinea Pig HealthMay 25, 2026

Guinea Pig Impaction Signs: Anal Impaction in Boars

Guinea pig anal impaction is common in older boars and shows a smelly soft buildup at the back end. Here is how to clean and manage it.

🐈Cat HealthMay 25, 2026

Cat HCM Symptoms: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Signs

Cat HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) thickens the heart and can cause sudden paralysis or breathing trouble. Here are the symptoms and what to do.

🐾Ferret HealthMay 25, 2026

🩺Chronic & Systemic

Ferret Adrenal Treatment Options: Implants, Surgery, Medication

Ferret adrenal disease is treated with deslorelin implants, adrenalectomy, or medical therapy. Here is how each option works, costs, and outcomes.

🦎Reptile HealthMay 25, 2026

Bearded Dragon Coccidia Signs: Diarrhea and Treatment

Bearded dragon coccidia infection causes watery foul stool, weight loss, and lethargy. Here is how vets diagnose, treat with ponazuril, and prevent.

🦜Bird HealthMay 25, 2026

🚨Emergency

Parrot Heavy Metal Toxicity: Lead and Zinc Poisoning Signs

Parrot heavy metal toxicity from lead or zinc causes regurgitation, neon urates, and weakness. Here is how it presents and how vets treat it.

🐕Dog HealthMay 25, 2026

🩺Chronic & Systemic

Dog Addison's Disease Symptoms: The Great Pretender

Dog Addison's disease causes vague vomiting, weakness, and weight loss until a sudden crisis. Here are the signs, diagnosis, and lifelong treatment.

🐈Cat HealthMay 25, 2026

Cat FIP Treatment with GS-441524: 84-Day Protocol Guide

GS-441524 cures over 85 percent of cats with FIP using an 84-day antiviral protocol. Here are the forms, dosing, costs, and what recovery looks like.

🐈Cat HealthMay 25, 2026

Cat Eosinophilic Granuloma Complex: Lip Ulcers and Plaques

Cat eosinophilic granuloma complex causes indolent lip ulcers, plaques, and linear granulomas, usually from allergy. Here is what each looks like and treat

🐹Hamster HealthMay 25, 2026

🩺Chronic & Systemic

Hamster Cushing's Disease Signs: Hair Loss and Thin Skin

Hamster Cushing's disease causes hair loss, thin skin, and increased thirst in older hamsters. Here is how it presents and supportive care.

🦜Bird HealthMay 25, 2026

Cockatiel PDD Symptoms: Proventricular Dilatation Disease

Cockatiel PDD (proventricular dilatation disease) causes undigested seeds in droppings, weight loss, and sometimes neurological signs. Here is what to know

🐕Dog HealthMay 25, 2026

Dog Degenerative Myelopathy Signs: Slow Hind-Limb Decline

Dog degenerative myelopathy is a painless, slow paralysis of the back end in older dogs. Here are early signs, diagnosis, and how to slow progression.

🐹Guinea Pig HealthMay 25, 2026

Guinea Pig Cervical Lymphadenitis: Neck Lumps and Treatment

Guinea pig cervical lymphadenitis (lumps) is a bacterial neck infection that needs surgical removal plus safe antibiotics. Here is how it is treated.

🐕Dog HealthMay 25, 2026

🤮Digestive

Dog Gastropexy Recovery: Timeline and What to Expect

Dog gastropexy recovery typically takes 2 weeks for laparoscopic and longer for open. Here is the timeline, pain control, and red flags.