Our sweet Pyrenees began showing some different and excess of eye discharge this morning. Not sure what the cause is, and he isn’t itching/seemingly bothered by it, but it’s pretty weird looking compared to his usual. It’s also not drying or crusting like typical eye boogies. It’s only in his right eye.

Our vet can’t see us until January 11. What are some remedies we can use before we go in?

Image is a little blurry, but what is this on my dog's foot? It looks like a giant skin tag or a dead worm. Do I need to do anything for it?

My cat was diagnosed with a flea allergy over a month ago by an old vet who didn't look at her very much or run any lab work. He put her on prednisolone and an oral flea med which seemed to resolve the issue. Hair started growing back, no fleas that I can find and she is gaining weight.

Now this morning... after being off the prednisolone for a couple weeks and moved into a new house that is flea free (and she's still currently on flea meds) she is creating little hot spots again.

What do you think this could be? Up until now she has always had a healthy coat, no food allergies (been on the same diet for years)... I'm stumped as to what is going on.

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I noticed my cat’s lips were a little sore a few days ago. He isn’t acting like he’s in any pain and it’s mostly noticeable when looking from below. I tried googling but couldn’t find exactly this. Any one experience something similar? He’s a male that I rescued about a year ago with no other heal to issues

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while I was away my dog (male yorkipoo of 9 years)got into a fight with my sisters dog (we all live together) and hurt his eye. I personally couldn’t see anything myself when I got home (it happened around the same time I was coming back inside). But one eye is definitely red but he looks 90% the same. I’m just taking her word for it since she was the only one around;
tho she IS prone to panic regularly

Behaviors normal, no spilling blood or huge gashes or anything, she also washed out and put some anti bacterial ointment above the eye so that could be it as well.

He IS struggling to keep it open and is frequently blinking. But is that from the fight or from the fact that his all around his eye is plastered in ointment?

I’ve also gotten my eye infected and injured several times in my life. And while never doctor visit worthy. A mix of the initial pain AND often having to wash, hot press and plaster it with ointments similarly lead to my eye/face responding about the same way. Like if I washed his eye out would he still, be doing this. ?
But obv it may be to soon for that.

She asked if I could take him to the vet today to get him checked out. And beyond being broke. We and more specifically I am in the middle of taking care of my dad who recently had knee surgery And he’s the stubborn type that no matter what you say or do, he’s hellbent On doing things himself even if it kills him. Like beyond falling 4 times recently. Literally JUST a few days ago he almost passed out and collapsed onto a hard wood table and computer. Literally the only reason I’m not in the ER with docs picking out grey matter. Is that I just happened to be in the kitchen to catch him standing up and being unresponsive in time.

Anyone who’s taken care of people like this can especially gather this is NOT the kind of person who can or should be left alone by themself for an unknown amount of time unless it’s important; I can barely even sleep for too long with him around.

How it works is I basically can’t sleep or leave or do much for most of the day til my sister returns at night. And I still have to watch over them then too. it’s also early in the morning, and she goes to work soon when I’m typing this. (This began at 3AM)

I did tell her if this is the case, since it happened on her watch she may have to take and pay for everything this time. But obviously she has work and isn’t particularly rich either.

Ntm many a time me and most owners here face the same dilemma, of our pooches getting into new amounts of trouble and don’t know how good or bad something is so we panic and fly off the handle over it and just send them to the vet over every little thing.

TL;DR dog got into a fight and hurt his eye with no signs of immediate physical signs of serious damage or behavioral change beyond frequent blinking that may just be a result of the ointment in his eye.

With no money or time to take him to the vet due to caring for a sick person who needs round the clock care.

So in the event he’s not going to the vet immediately due to no signs of serious damage or change in behavior, what exactly should we be looking for as non-vets to determine how bad this situation truly is.

And what are some things we should look into doing to treat him on our own if anything? I don’t even know if a place IS open this early where we liveg

Obviously if it’s a stage 10 and he just has 10 hours left to live; I’ll try To move heaven and earth to get him seen as soon as possible.

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My cat had been gone for a week and returned home with a massive abscess rupture and the loose skin hanging off. We dont have any veterinarians around us so i need some help to try to fix this myself. As of now i brought back the loose skin to the wound and applied betadine and tied it with medical guaze. Is there anything else i need to do?

Hi everyone! My baby is almost 2 years old. She never had issues using the litter box growing up and has always had normal-looking stools. Recently, in the past 6 months or so, she has had some bowel irritation, and we've switched her to a hydrolyzed protein diet per her vet's recommendation, which has fixed her irritated bowel.

This being said, she still avoids using the litter box for pooping (she'll pee in it just fine), and she ends up leaving us surprises around the house. We've been wracking our brains about what we can do, and we noticed that recently she's used the soil from my mom's plants as her pooping grounds. This was kinda enlightening because then we started thinking "Hmm what if there are soil-based litter brands" or something?

Does anyone have any ideas/advice for us, please? I feel bad for her because she might have some trauma from using the litter box during her irritated bowel period, and that's what's making her avoid the box now
:(

(we currently use Arm&Hammer Double Duty Clumping Litter for her, and we've always used this brand since we adopted her at 4 weeks old)

Thank you!

Does anyone know of any litter that is low tracking or possibly a litter mat that actually works. The litter I use is the fresh pet one btw. I’m losing my mind spending all day cleaning it up. I’m also worried since my baby will start crawling soon. I don’t want him to crawl over litter. Please help 😩

My dream is to find land where I can live & operate a successful dog boarding/daycare/training business.

I don’t want to buy an existing business or property but rather start small & grow. A leased house with even 1/2 an acre would work with proper land use rights, licenses, etc.

Has anyone ventured down this path & what has been your overall experience?

These are 7-way dewormers I got for my dog. I just thought these guys have gone out of their way to use natural ingredients and packaging and I wanted to do my part to support small business not big pharma

My mom's cat threw up once and hasn't again in the days following but she is terrified that something is wrong with her. Throwing up is a natural reaction to try to eject something that your body thinks may be wrong. I imagine it's the same for pets.

Is she being too jumpy? Maybe my hesitation to alarm is a little influenced by the costs of vet visits, but I just don't think one case of a body doing a normal function is worth too much concern if it's an isolated incident.

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We have a 2-ish year old rescue that we adopted a month ago. He was abandoned and probably abused based on his behaviors... He was scared of everything. Now that we've shown him love and comfort, he's found his voice and now it seems like he's waking up between 2-4AM every night and won't stop barking when he does. We've got obedience classes scheduled, but with the holidays, everything is booked until after Thanksgiving. We've tried everything we can think of, starting with letting him out, assuming he had to pee, but after he comes in and gets his treat, we put him back on his kennel and he goes right back to barking and won't go back to sleep. We've tried a blanket over his kennel, adding light, removing light, different toys, no toys, a blanket in his kennel, having him snuggle with us in bed (he won't settle in like he will during the day, he just wants to run around and play, or seems), having a radio on, having no sound... Can anyone give suggestions on what to do that might help? We're getting past the point of exhaustion.

For what it's worth, he has no problem with his kennel during the day or when we put him to bed. He's still pooping and peeing in the house at times when we don't put him in the kennel but he does have plenty of time outside of it while we're home.

I dont know what to do anymore. We've taken her to the vet. They did bloodwork and said they found nothing. Gave her a shot to prevent infection. Shes 15yo tabby. It has been literal months of this hell. We have 2 donuts to swap out for her but if she gets them off she immediately destroys her face. It's awful and as it's my gf's cat it really upsetting her. I'm not sure what to do at this point. Their overall answer was Maybe alergies. We have removed new furniture. Swapped bad to old food she's been good on even bought a new litter box. They gave the flea treatment they put on the back of the neck. We have force fed seteroids to help with the issue but we cannot find a resolution. The only 2 major changes is my gf moved in with a friend and they have 3 animals but she was there about 8 months before any of this started and the food. We started feeding her wet food and the lickem gogurt things. GF even swapped laundry detergent to something for sensitive skin. The kitty is never around the other animals and only in the gfs room. Shes old and likes her space. The vet said possibly food allergy but its like $100 for a small bag and given it's a guess I'm really not sure what else to do here. has anyone experienced this before and can possibly help? I'm already out 2k trying to figure this out only to get a guess. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Not sure which subreddit to post this but does anyone have any experience with palliative care on a dog with stomach cancer? Hes so sad all the time and im wondering if theres any medication to perk him up. I know we cant cure him but i want his final days to be more comfortable

I have a cat that has a ulcer on her eye. She's been to the vet and is taking medication for it for about 2½ weeks but her eye isn't getting any better. It looks like her eye is gonna have to be removed but I can't afford the $600-$1200 procedure to have it done and I really don't wanna have to put her down over something like this. Does anyone know of anything that could help me with the cost that doesn't involve signing up for a credit card or applying for a loan? I live in North Carolina.

My dog passed just around 4 weeks ago. It was heartbreaking, he had an underlying condition that we treated very thoroughly but just finally caught up to him.

Unrelated, he had fleas the last week or so of his life. He never had fleas before this, but when it rains it pours. We bathed him and cleaned our stuff, but with a sick and soon to be passed dog we probably didn’t do as much as we should have. We’ve found just a few that most likely recently hatched and we want to get rid of them before we get our puppy (who we were also planning to get before the first one passed. We wanted him to have a brother 😭).

Anyway, not sure why they’re here now that there is no dog. Will clean and such but any advice is super appreciated. I had flea infestations all of my life as a kid so even seeing 3 in the span of a week has me so panicked.

My mom passed away a few weeks ago and left behind her 14 years old chihuahua some days ago I noticed her breath stank and she started shaking and complaining about pain in the mouth so I took her to the vet today and turns out she has a pretty nasty mouth infection the gave her medication but im not sure if that will heal her completely...the vet dosent recommend dental work because she's old and there's a chance she she won't wake up after sedation. What should I do? I don't want her to be in pain and I've been reading that the infection probably won't go away without dental work

What’s the best way of dealing with fleas. I have 3 cats and a dog. I gave them the drop medicine and fogged the house. Does anyone have any suggestions