Are you a pet owner? How do you know if your pet is sick? Do you know even with balanced nutrition and attention pets can still get stick? Owners who observe and handle their healthy babies should easily start recognizing early signs of illness in their pets. Recognizing what is usual or unusual for your pet, his daily routine, sometimes is the only way to know something is not right. Some helpful tips on getting to know your pets health is a weekly hands-on exam where you can stand back and learn about your pet for a few minutes, consider his posture, activity level, gait, coat and overall appearance for an impression of good health. The first guideline in recognizing a sick pet is observing if the pet has diarrhea.  If you find this it is no matter to worry about. This can be an allergic reaction of the pet to food or something that he wasn’t supposed to swallow it. For this position it is very important not to attempt to make pet’s vomit, you must only let the vet to come and examine the pet. The second type is unexplained or sudden loss weight of a pet. For this case you need simply call your veterinarian immediately as this is a real matter. As a pet owner you must know also about the average temperature, a heart rate or for example respiratory rate for a dog or cat. Healthy dogs are known to have a temperature of 101-102 F, a heart rate of about 90 beats per minute and respiratory rate of 15-20 breaths. Speaking about cats, they should have 38-38.5 C temperature and pulse rate between 120 and 170. For dogs it is a commonly known method recognizing a sick seeing dog’s nose is war or dry.  In healthy pets you must find cold and wet noses, but no runny. If you are a cat owner you must in basic check cat’s mouth and eyes (the most beautiful parts of any cat). Healthy cats are expected to have clean and white teeth along with pink gums and clean and dry eyes.To disclose, always remember knowing your pets basic routine is a big plus during emergency first aid, but the same time veterinary care is must to save your pet’s life and avoid from problems.

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