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What to Expect When Your Dog has Kidney Failure

When kidney failure strikes man's best friend, the diagnosis may feel as if it cast a dark shadow of uncertainty and apprehension over the strong bond dogs and dog owners share. Owners are therefore often...

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Best Automatic Cat Feeder

There's been a growing epidemic of feline obesity in recent years. There's a constituent of cats that will overeat if being free-fed. I have one of those kitties, if the food is there, she will eat. In...

21 comments    cats feline diabetes cat obesity
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Living With Feline CRF (Chronic Renal Failure)

Since you see your pet daily, it can be difficult to notice substantial and profound weight loss is occuring. Oftentimes, when you finally do notice this change, it's quite significant. As was the case with...

108 comments    cats cat health cat health care
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Life on Dialysis: How it works, How I cope

In March of 2000 I was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disorder called GoodPasture's Syndrome and renal failure, which was secondary to the disease. "Goodpasture Syndrome is a rare disease that can affect...

5 comments    health coping dialysis
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Yea Though I Walk Through The Valley of Dialysis

This hub is my personal experience with dialysis. I examine what to expect and enclose many links and resources for the new patient. It is told through my personal Christian experience.

4 comments    health god weight
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Chronic Kidney Failure in Cats

Chronic Renal Failure is, unfortunately, an all too common occurrence in cats. If you're not quite sure what the diagnosis means, I'll put it very in simple terms: CRF means that your cat's kidney's can no...

0 comments    crf cat loss of appetite
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kidney failure

The doctors explanation of the parathyroid gland. Is basically "it sits in the neck next to the thyroid. And when working helps to control calcium deposits etc. When ill 'it overworks and too much calcium is...

0 comments    health calcium kidney
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Grapes and Raisins can kill your dog!

As a dog owner you may not realise that both grapes and raisins can kill your much loved pet by bringing on rapid kidney failure (within 24 hours of consuming the fruit). Be aware that both grapes and...

15 comments    dogs dog failure
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Health - Swine Flu Is Speaking to You - In a Pig's Eye

It is fascinating to me that the word "epidemic" doesn't exist anymore! We have gone from a few hundred cases worldwide to the word "PANdemic". In our soundbyte surrounded, prepackaged points of view, talking...

0 comments    swine flu h1n1 pandemic
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Health Care and Us

  Watching the debate over health care I am struck by a couple of things. Number one : I don't think any of our illustrious lawmakers have ever just had to be sick or deal with painful dental work...

2 comments    politics insurance health care
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