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About the overweight Australian Cattle Dog pictured in this article: I did not put his picture into the article myself but he is my dog: Yoda. I'm sure people would be happy to know that his vet put him on a diet about a month after that picture was taken. He isn't too happy about the diet but he is certainly looking healthier in the last 4 months since his diet changed. I was surprised to see his picture in this article since I uploaded it just as an ACD example but since his health was apparently a big enough concern to list him as an example of overweight dogs in this article I thought I'd give a health update on Yoda. He is losing weight and the vet is happy with how he is doing.
-- Starladustangel 08:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
We eventually found out that Yoda was suffering from Cushing's disese which was what caused his sagging tummy and fat lumps. He passed away last month at the age of 14. He did lose weight but the sagging tummy never went away since that was part of cushing's. I will be changing his picture caption to say that he had cushing's since his saggy tummy was a sign of that.
The saggy tummy and the constant hunger. The peeing in the house. The lethargy. I wish we'd known about Cushing's a lot soonder than we did.
-- Starladustangel 06:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
First, I am sorry I forgot to put in an edit summary. It won't happen again. I eliminated the part about necessary euthanization of unvaccinated dogs and added information about unvaccinated dog and cat quarantine after biting and being bitten. I also eliminated the part about treating rabies in dogs and cats, because this is not done.
I do have a question as I am new here. There really aren't any footnotes or references for most of the article. Should I automatically add one for every edit? I am a veterinarian and I can easily put in a reference to an appropriate textbook. Thanks. -- Joelmills 01:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Changed heartworm migration information and eliminated reference to consumption of cardiac muscle. -- Joelmills 01:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just have a quick question for you. I'd like to add some info on glaucoma in dogs. The link from dog health goes to an article with only info on human glaucoma. I could either add the pertinent dog info there, or I could (and probably should) start a new article. So I would change the link on dog health and any breed articles to glaucoma in dogs, and possibly put a link on the glaucoma article to the new article. And eventually I would do the same thing for glaucoma in cats. It's a big enough subject to need a new page, because the characteristics and treatment are somewhat different. Please let me know what you think. -- Joelmills 00:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC) (Copied from User talk:Elf)
Thanks. For instance I just added more dog info to entropion. Since that was a short article and the disease is similar to humans, I kept it on the same page. -- Joelmills 01:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Since I'm not an expert in medical topics, I put everything that I couldn't quite figure out what to do with into "miscellaneous". Breaking the list into useful categories (like others went into "parasites", "eye problems", etc.) would probably be a helpful thing for readers, but I don't know where to begin. Elf | Talk 05:29, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
OK, no rush, obviously! You're doing a great job. BTW, I created the list by working my way through List of dog breeds and adding everything that I found in any articles' Health sections. And SOMEWHERE I had a note about how far through the list I got--not all that far, I think--but I can't find it. Not in the dog-project to-do list, not in the talk page here, not on my user page, so I have no clue where I left off. Oh, well--someday someone should start from the top again and work on through. Doesn't that sound like fun? :-) Elf | Talk 05:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I hate to use cancer so much in this list, because cancer indicates malignancy. All of the anatomic areas I listed have benign and malignant tumors, so cancer is not accurate. Neoplasia would be better. However, the existing articles all have cancer in the title, and I didn't want to put in dead links. I used mammary tumor instead of breast cancer because there are just too many differences between dogs and humans in this instance. Eventually I will redirect these to dog (or more likely animal) pages in order to give a fuller description. That will have to wait until I can swipe the oncology book from work again. -- Joelmills 03:41, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
First, I know I added a lot of red links, but I will create pages for those ASAP. After that, we need to look at the pertinent breed pages and make sure they direct to the proper page, in case they use different terminology. Most new blue links go to human disease pages, so as soon as I add dog info to them (or create a new page for the dog disease), I will add them to the dog health category. Lastly, the list is now pretty long. Should we go ahead and create a List of dog diseases page? -- Joelmills 01:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
PDE (that name is fine with me) is a type of chronic granulomatous meningoencephalitis. There are subtle differences between PDE and the disease we usually refer to as "GME". However, only one page called granulomatous meningoencephalitis is probably necessary, with a redirect from PDE.
Regarding butterfly vertebrae and hemivertebrae, they are actually two different conditions. Along with block vertebrae and transitional vertebrae, they make up the "congenital vertebral anomalies" in dogs. So I will probably just do one page for all of them, with redirects from each. I'll correct the list now.
One last thing. I'm not sure how to create a new page for the dog disease list. Do we just cut and paste? -- Joelmills 21:31, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Whoops. I checked another source and I think butterfly vertebrae can be considered a type of hemivertebrae, although technically they have a different cause. The source the pug page uses considers them to be synonyms, and it's such a fine point I hate to change it. If anybody cares to check the new article when I create it, they can get a more in depth description. And if I ever get a photo of an x-ray with either a hemivertebrae or a butterfly vertebrae, I can put them up there. Of course, I've never actually seen a butterfly vertebrae...
I'll go ahead and create the dog disease list page. Would you mind checking it to make sure I don't screw it up? -- Joelmills 01:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, this i my first day, not sure how to make a new heading so this may be in the wrong place... I just wanted to point out that the term anterior cruciate ligament is used in human medicine. In veterinary orthopaedics we use "cranial" cruciate ligament. This is because the stance of the dog means that anterior and cranial are not the same. Hope that's not too pedantic/semantic! Dyrlægen ( talk) 18:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
An anon user keeps posting this text in the Labrador Retriever article. Is there any truth to this:
Elf | Talk 23:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, that is true, including the mechanism of action. However, it should be added that the ethanol needs to be given IV and needs to be fairly pure. In our own practice in the past we have used vodka and everclear. There are side effects such as depression and hypothermia, and a better antidote is 4-methylpyrazole, aka fomepizole and Antizol-Vet - but it is more expensive and not everybody has it. Because antifreeze poisoning needs to be treated within eight hours of ingestion, you use what you can get your hands on. -- Joelmills 02:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I took a picture of a dog with a bandaged foot. Can I put it in this article - I find no obvious section to put it in. Right at the top? Alse see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals#dog_with_bandaged_foot
--- PER9000 17:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The "References" section is a bunch of external links and some of them may or may not have been used as references in the article. It needs to be gone through by some of the article authors and made into proper references.
The EL section is attracting spam. Cleaning up the references section to the citation format will make that less attractive to EL spammers. SchmuckyTheCat 03:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
I think we should move this page, along with the dog antomany to the main dog page. From User:4444hhhh
I removed the following from this page:
The media frenzy from the last year is based on anecdotal evidence. For empirical lab studies that have shown no negative effects on dogs, see:
I checked with my vet. It is a danger, and the information should be reentered. JoKing 13:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
As I finally started the rewrite of this article today, I realized two things. First, this is going to take longer than I expected, and second, it is going to result in an article that is so large as to be impractical. I would suggest that two sections be split off: Toxic substances in dogs (or Canine toxicology) and Canine parasites (which can also be a subpage of veterinary parasitology). Brief synopses can be left in this article. Thoughts, anyone? -- Joelmills 22:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Why does my dog keep getting into the litter box? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.127.249.209 ( talk) 19:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
There is a distinct lack of information in this article on Auto-immune diseases in dogs. I was thinking of creating one before the "other" section also perhaps changing that section and creating two more new ones titled "reproductive disorders" and "endocrine disorders". Does anyone have any thought about this proposal before I go ahead? Cheers, Keetanii ( talk) 11:57, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Chocolate is extremely toxic to dogs and even small amounts can have severe impacts on their health. [1] Chocolate contains Theobromine which is not toxic to humans but is in dogs even in very small amounts. Dark chocolates and baking chocolates have much higher levels of Theobromine in them which makes them even more toxic to dogs when compared to other chocolates. [2]
I have added a citation for the toxicity of chocolate in large dogs, but looking earlier in the section I have concerns on two fronts:
If anyone can cast any further light it would be much appreciated. FrankFlanagan ( talk) 17:44, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
May I suggest that some toxicity information be repeated in the section on Dog Treats, and/or wording such as "Important: See section 2.1 Dangerous Foods !" ? The Dog Treats section does not currently contain any warnings at all ! Darkman101 ( talk) 14:13, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Please would someone expert add some information on dog toenail clipping, which many dogs regularly need, or a link to somewhere appropriate ? Thanks. Darkman101 ( talk) 14:19, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
>Their diet must consist of the appropriate mix of nutrients, carbohydrates, and proteins, with the appropriate mix to provide all of the minerals and vitamins that they need.
>Wild and feral dogs can usually get all the nutrients needed from a diet of whole prey and raw meat. In addition, the scraps often consist of fat rather than meat protein, which in excess is no better for dogs than it is for humans.
I'm sorry, but shouldnt there be some citations here? This implies that dietary fat is the concern.. in a carnivore.. which would eat only fat and protein in the wild. Does it not make more sense for carbohydrates to be the issue? Would you rather feed a dog a steak (fat and protein) or cake (carbohydrates and fat)? This is correlation, not causation, and I don't see very many fat wolves with their high protein high fat diets. Why would dogs, carnivores, require carbohydrates?
I blame insulin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.67.14.185 ( talk) 18:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The viral and other subsections of Diseases seems unnecessary wordy, given that each disease mentioned has its own list. I would suggest collapsing it to a list of links for each section and adding any pertinent data about each disease to that disease's article page. ( Adelle Frank ( talk) 16:14, 8 July 2012 (UTC))
I removed zinc from toxic substances list as it is a misinterpretation by someone who added it.
The cited reference is for zinc phosphide. Overwhelming toxicity is from the phosphide, which is a pesticide. Cited reference doesn't support any claim about toxicity of zinc or if swallowing US penny as a significant causation.
"* Zinc toxicity, mostly in the form of the ingestion of US pennies minted after 1982, is commonly fatal in dogs where it causes a severe hemolytic anemia. [3]"
Cantaloupe2 ( talk) 23:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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I moved the stuff below to the talk page. It's not properly referenced (I doubt the holistic dog blog qualifies as a reliable source). Please do not move this back into the article until all the claims have been verified and referenced to scientific studies. So far it's just POV.
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Hello All. I have just imported text that had been placed in the "Dog breed" article - where it does not belong - as an initial fix. Much of it appears to be unsourced. Please deal with it appropriately. William Harris • (talk) • 10:17, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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About the overweight Australian Cattle Dog pictured in this article: I did not put his picture into the article myself but he is my dog: Yoda. I'm sure people would be happy to know that his vet put him on a diet about a month after that picture was taken. He isn't too happy about the diet but he is certainly looking healthier in the last 4 months since his diet changed. I was surprised to see his picture in this article since I uploaded it just as an ACD example but since his health was apparently a big enough concern to list him as an example of overweight dogs in this article I thought I'd give a health update on Yoda. He is losing weight and the vet is happy with how he is doing.
-- Starladustangel 08:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
We eventually found out that Yoda was suffering from Cushing's disese which was what caused his sagging tummy and fat lumps. He passed away last month at the age of 14. He did lose weight but the sagging tummy never went away since that was part of cushing's. I will be changing his picture caption to say that he had cushing's since his saggy tummy was a sign of that.
The saggy tummy and the constant hunger. The peeing in the house. The lethargy. I wish we'd known about Cushing's a lot soonder than we did.
-- Starladustangel 06:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
First, I am sorry I forgot to put in an edit summary. It won't happen again. I eliminated the part about necessary euthanization of unvaccinated dogs and added information about unvaccinated dog and cat quarantine after biting and being bitten. I also eliminated the part about treating rabies in dogs and cats, because this is not done.
I do have a question as I am new here. There really aren't any footnotes or references for most of the article. Should I automatically add one for every edit? I am a veterinarian and I can easily put in a reference to an appropriate textbook. Thanks. -- Joelmills 01:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Changed heartworm migration information and eliminated reference to consumption of cardiac muscle. -- Joelmills 01:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I just have a quick question for you. I'd like to add some info on glaucoma in dogs. The link from dog health goes to an article with only info on human glaucoma. I could either add the pertinent dog info there, or I could (and probably should) start a new article. So I would change the link on dog health and any breed articles to glaucoma in dogs, and possibly put a link on the glaucoma article to the new article. And eventually I would do the same thing for glaucoma in cats. It's a big enough subject to need a new page, because the characteristics and treatment are somewhat different. Please let me know what you think. -- Joelmills 00:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC) (Copied from User talk:Elf)
Thanks. For instance I just added more dog info to entropion. Since that was a short article and the disease is similar to humans, I kept it on the same page. -- Joelmills 01:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Since I'm not an expert in medical topics, I put everything that I couldn't quite figure out what to do with into "miscellaneous". Breaking the list into useful categories (like others went into "parasites", "eye problems", etc.) would probably be a helpful thing for readers, but I don't know where to begin. Elf | Talk 05:29, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
OK, no rush, obviously! You're doing a great job. BTW, I created the list by working my way through List of dog breeds and adding everything that I found in any articles' Health sections. And SOMEWHERE I had a note about how far through the list I got--not all that far, I think--but I can't find it. Not in the dog-project to-do list, not in the talk page here, not on my user page, so I have no clue where I left off. Oh, well--someday someone should start from the top again and work on through. Doesn't that sound like fun? :-) Elf | Talk 05:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I hate to use cancer so much in this list, because cancer indicates malignancy. All of the anatomic areas I listed have benign and malignant tumors, so cancer is not accurate. Neoplasia would be better. However, the existing articles all have cancer in the title, and I didn't want to put in dead links. I used mammary tumor instead of breast cancer because there are just too many differences between dogs and humans in this instance. Eventually I will redirect these to dog (or more likely animal) pages in order to give a fuller description. That will have to wait until I can swipe the oncology book from work again. -- Joelmills 03:41, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
First, I know I added a lot of red links, but I will create pages for those ASAP. After that, we need to look at the pertinent breed pages and make sure they direct to the proper page, in case they use different terminology. Most new blue links go to human disease pages, so as soon as I add dog info to them (or create a new page for the dog disease), I will add them to the dog health category. Lastly, the list is now pretty long. Should we go ahead and create a List of dog diseases page? -- Joelmills 01:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
PDE (that name is fine with me) is a type of chronic granulomatous meningoencephalitis. There are subtle differences between PDE and the disease we usually refer to as "GME". However, only one page called granulomatous meningoencephalitis is probably necessary, with a redirect from PDE.
Regarding butterfly vertebrae and hemivertebrae, they are actually two different conditions. Along with block vertebrae and transitional vertebrae, they make up the "congenital vertebral anomalies" in dogs. So I will probably just do one page for all of them, with redirects from each. I'll correct the list now.
One last thing. I'm not sure how to create a new page for the dog disease list. Do we just cut and paste? -- Joelmills 21:31, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Whoops. I checked another source and I think butterfly vertebrae can be considered a type of hemivertebrae, although technically they have a different cause. The source the pug page uses considers them to be synonyms, and it's such a fine point I hate to change it. If anybody cares to check the new article when I create it, they can get a more in depth description. And if I ever get a photo of an x-ray with either a hemivertebrae or a butterfly vertebrae, I can put them up there. Of course, I've never actually seen a butterfly vertebrae...
I'll go ahead and create the dog disease list page. Would you mind checking it to make sure I don't screw it up? -- Joelmills 01:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, this i my first day, not sure how to make a new heading so this may be in the wrong place... I just wanted to point out that the term anterior cruciate ligament is used in human medicine. In veterinary orthopaedics we use "cranial" cruciate ligament. This is because the stance of the dog means that anterior and cranial are not the same. Hope that's not too pedantic/semantic! Dyrlægen ( talk) 18:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
An anon user keeps posting this text in the Labrador Retriever article. Is there any truth to this:
Elf | Talk 23:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, that is true, including the mechanism of action. However, it should be added that the ethanol needs to be given IV and needs to be fairly pure. In our own practice in the past we have used vodka and everclear. There are side effects such as depression and hypothermia, and a better antidote is 4-methylpyrazole, aka fomepizole and Antizol-Vet - but it is more expensive and not everybody has it. Because antifreeze poisoning needs to be treated within eight hours of ingestion, you use what you can get your hands on. -- Joelmills 02:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I took a picture of a dog with a bandaged foot. Can I put it in this article - I find no obvious section to put it in. Right at the top? Alse see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mammals#dog_with_bandaged_foot
--- PER9000 17:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The "References" section is a bunch of external links and some of them may or may not have been used as references in the article. It needs to be gone through by some of the article authors and made into proper references.
The EL section is attracting spam. Cleaning up the references section to the citation format will make that less attractive to EL spammers. SchmuckyTheCat 03:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
I think we should move this page, along with the dog antomany to the main dog page. From User:4444hhhh
I removed the following from this page:
The media frenzy from the last year is based on anecdotal evidence. For empirical lab studies that have shown no negative effects on dogs, see:
I checked with my vet. It is a danger, and the information should be reentered. JoKing 13:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
As I finally started the rewrite of this article today, I realized two things. First, this is going to take longer than I expected, and second, it is going to result in an article that is so large as to be impractical. I would suggest that two sections be split off: Toxic substances in dogs (or Canine toxicology) and Canine parasites (which can also be a subpage of veterinary parasitology). Brief synopses can be left in this article. Thoughts, anyone? -- Joelmills 22:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Why does my dog keep getting into the litter box? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.127.249.209 ( talk) 19:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
There is a distinct lack of information in this article on Auto-immune diseases in dogs. I was thinking of creating one before the "other" section also perhaps changing that section and creating two more new ones titled "reproductive disorders" and "endocrine disorders". Does anyone have any thought about this proposal before I go ahead? Cheers, Keetanii ( talk) 11:57, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Chocolate is extremely toxic to dogs and even small amounts can have severe impacts on their health. [1] Chocolate contains Theobromine which is not toxic to humans but is in dogs even in very small amounts. Dark chocolates and baking chocolates have much higher levels of Theobromine in them which makes them even more toxic to dogs when compared to other chocolates. [2]
I have added a citation for the toxicity of chocolate in large dogs, but looking earlier in the section I have concerns on two fronts:
If anyone can cast any further light it would be much appreciated. FrankFlanagan ( talk) 17:44, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
May I suggest that some toxicity information be repeated in the section on Dog Treats, and/or wording such as "Important: See section 2.1 Dangerous Foods !" ? The Dog Treats section does not currently contain any warnings at all ! Darkman101 ( talk) 14:13, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Please would someone expert add some information on dog toenail clipping, which many dogs regularly need, or a link to somewhere appropriate ? Thanks. Darkman101 ( talk) 14:19, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
>Their diet must consist of the appropriate mix of nutrients, carbohydrates, and proteins, with the appropriate mix to provide all of the minerals and vitamins that they need.
>Wild and feral dogs can usually get all the nutrients needed from a diet of whole prey and raw meat. In addition, the scraps often consist of fat rather than meat protein, which in excess is no better for dogs than it is for humans.
I'm sorry, but shouldnt there be some citations here? This implies that dietary fat is the concern.. in a carnivore.. which would eat only fat and protein in the wild. Does it not make more sense for carbohydrates to be the issue? Would you rather feed a dog a steak (fat and protein) or cake (carbohydrates and fat)? This is correlation, not causation, and I don't see very many fat wolves with their high protein high fat diets. Why would dogs, carnivores, require carbohydrates?
I blame insulin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.67.14.185 ( talk) 18:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The viral and other subsections of Diseases seems unnecessary wordy, given that each disease mentioned has its own list. I would suggest collapsing it to a list of links for each section and adding any pertinent data about each disease to that disease's article page. ( Adelle Frank ( talk) 16:14, 8 July 2012 (UTC))
I removed zinc from toxic substances list as it is a misinterpretation by someone who added it.
The cited reference is for zinc phosphide. Overwhelming toxicity is from the phosphide, which is a pesticide. Cited reference doesn't support any claim about toxicity of zinc or if swallowing US penny as a significant causation.
"* Zinc toxicity, mostly in the form of the ingestion of US pennies minted after 1982, is commonly fatal in dogs where it causes a severe hemolytic anemia. [3]"
Cantaloupe2 ( talk) 23:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
References
{{
cite journal}}
: Explicit use of et al. in: |author=
(
help); Unknown parameter |month=
ignored (
help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
Trimmed promotional contents added on October 11 by Absander, who had serially inserted ConsumerLab.com references into many articles, which is a clear indication of WP:Advert intended to sway opinion. The failure/passing of consumerlab.com test is based on arbitrary standards that do not necessarily reference to any regulations, so in order words passing/not passing in their opinion, which have in this article as it disrupts objectiveness. pattern shows it is clearly non-neutral Cantaloupe2 ( talk) 18:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I moved the stuff below to the talk page. It's not properly referenced (I doubt the holistic dog blog qualifies as a reliable source). Please do not move this back into the article until all the claims have been verified and referenced to scientific studies. So far it's just POV.
Preceeding comment is unsigned by IP
FrankFlanagan (
talk)
19:20, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
References
I have heard that purebred dogs are slightly more susceptible to certain diseases. Should this be mentioned, if at all, and where should it be mentioned? 180.200.154.201 ( talk) 11:40, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello All. I have just imported text that had been placed in the "Dog breed" article - where it does not belong - as an initial fix. Much of it appears to be unsourced. Please deal with it appropriately. William Harris • (talk) • 10:17, 25 May 2018 (UTC)