Certain disorders are rather common occurrences in many older dogs and are potentially life threatening. In the female dog, conditions such as mammary gland tumors and pyometra, as well as the less serious false pregnancy and mis-mating, can be prevented to varying degrees by ovariohysterectomy. If your mature dog has already had such surgery you [...]

It is common knowledge that for every year that a dog is alive with us they are actually aging ’seven years’ in comparison to people. Although this is estimation, it is very close to reality. To be totally accurate though, one dog year is closer to a person aging eight years in life. [...]