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How to Tell if Your Dog Is Sick: 11 Common Symptoms Pet Health and Safety   •   Abby Drexler  •    Jan 24, 2022 Dogs don't have the ability to tell us how they feel. However, anyone who has ever had a furry friend knows that canine body language can be very expressive. Dogs will instinctively hide how they feel in the early stages of an illness. Because you know your dog, you may be able to pick up on some subtle changes in their personality and actions. These subtle changes usually indicate that something is wrong. The key to helping your dog recover quickly is noticing that there is a problem as soon as possible. Here are 11 warning signs that will help you answer the question, "Is my dog sick?", so you can determine whether or not they are in need of veterinary attention. 11 Common Signs Your Dog Is Sick and Needs to See a Vet Vomiting or Diarrhea Vomiting and/or diarrhea are the most common reasons to seek veterinary help and often the first symptoms of...

What's The Significance of Puppy Testing?   Jane Messineo Lindquist, Puppy Culture 20 Dec 2022 We talk about puppy assessment tests (PAT) in Puppy Culture , but a couple of studies have come out since the film that bear discussion. They confirm what we state in the film - that puppy testing is useful as a diagnostic, but not as a predictive tool. In a recent and fairly deep study , early temperament tests were found to have little or no ability to predict any adult personality trait with reliability, except for exploratory behavior. What's so very interesting, though, is that around the same time that the above study came out, another study was published that definitively linked experiences in the first year of life with the outcome of later temperament tests - for instance, a puppy or young dog being attacked or experiencing aggressive behavior from another dog during the first year of life has a strong correlation to later dog AND human aggression. Empowering Puppy ...

 So, you have decided to research before buying a new puppy so that you can find one that is from healthy parents, and one of the topics that is frequently mentioned in your research is DNA testing.  What exactly does this mean? Many illnesses and health conditions that affect dogs are linked to their genetics, and some of those conditions are breed-specific, meaning that the condition only affects that breed, and any mixes that include that breed.  To understand the statistical likelihood of a puppy inheriting a condition, you have to understand the basic biology of how DNA is contributed from the puppy's parents.   Every dog has two of every gene that comprises their genetic makeup.  Each parent contributes one gene from each pair of chromosomes to their offspring.  Therefore, 100% of the offspring will have a gene from their sire and a gene from their dam for every pair of genes in their DNA makeup. As genes get passed down through multiple generati...