The happy puppy guide to good health
The Happy Puppy is about things dog owners need to know, and packed full of answers to
the questions I'm asked every day. How can I get my dog to stop barking? What
should I do about fleas? How do you pull a tick? What are heartworms,
anyway? Do I really need to do all that stuff ? (Surprisingly perhaps, the
answer is not always "yes".)
Most of our Happy Puppy information applies equally to any dog anywhere. Some of
it, like the foxtail section, is mostly for California. Other parts apply more
specifically non-urban areas. You wouldn't, for instance, worry much about
rattlesnakes if you lived in Chicago.
Our spaying and neutering sections describe the way we deal with
post surgical pain and address concerns about anesthetic safety during these important
operations. They provide useful information for anyone whose dog is about to have
surgery.
Placerville and the Sierra foothills have a lot more heartworms
than most other parts of the West. You will find detailed information here about
heartworm prevention, heartworm disease, and and heartworm treatment.
New information on fleas, ticks
and arthritis becomes old information as quickly
as it's published. Is the low level of
omega 3 fatty acids found in
commercial dog food account for some of the allergy and autoimmune
problems that have become so commonplace? We deal these problems
every day and the biggest
advantage of a web page is that it's easy to keep current.
There is a lot in here about puppies. If you are giving some thought to puppy
selection before getting a puppy, congratulations. Go look in the picking a puppy department. If you are more spontaneous
and picked up a puppy sort of by accident, that's fine too. Go straight to puppy care and training. Lots of useful
information in the fewest possible words.
Best wishes,
Jon Vilhauer, dvm
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