Should I Neuter/Spay My Pet?

Owning a dog or cat is a huge responsibility and an important thing to consider is whether you should neuter or spay your pet. Spaying/neutering is a wise choice and beneficial to their health. If your animal is purely a companion to your family and not to be used specifically for breeding, our resident vet recommends the animal should be neutered/spayed. Sterilizing your animal provides the following health benefits:

Lessens the risk of cancer - Sterilization prevents ovarian, uterine, and testicular cancer in pets and lessens the chance of mammary gland cancer.
Prevents urinary tract infections - This is particularly important for cats as urinary tract disease can be very serious and even fatal for your feline friend.
Can reduce undesirable behavior - Male dogs can have a tendency to roam for a mate, this results in dogs running at large which can be hit by cars or picked up as strays. In dogs, it can also lessen barking and particularly urine marking as they will feel less of a need to defend their territory. Male cats will also be less likely to urine mark their territory and spaying female cats should stop them from yowling, which is their mating call when they’re in heat.
Eradicates female canine menstruation - Female dogs are in heat approximately every six months, which is a messy business as female dogs that are not spayed have a bloody discharge.

Not having your pet sterilized can affect society as well, it is an unfortunate truth that there are hundreds of thousands of animals that are in animal shelters across the world that are in desparate need of a good home. Often these animals are surrendered to the shelter or abandoned because they were bred without a thought spared for their long-term future. Dogs live for around 10-15 years on average and cats live for even longer. Bringing more life into the world is not a decision to be taken lightly when these things are taken to account.

Your dog or cats behavior won’t change in any undesirable way once they are neutered or spayed. He or she will still be the same pet, a little calmer if anything, and once sterilized they will be a happier and healthier member of your family for many years to come.

Dog in Germany gives birth to seventeen puppies

In Berlin, a Rhodesian Ridgeback called Etana has recently given birth to seventeen puppies. This extraordinary feat. has made life very hectic for Etana’s owner, Ramona Wegemann, who has been looking after the puppies non-stop since their birth.

Etana is physically unable to feed so many pups so Ramona has been bottle feeding them several times a day for weeks now, claiming she only gets a few minutes sleep at a time. When she’s not bottle feeding them, she is keeping them entertained. If one puppy is a handful, imagine seventeen!

More on this story can be found on the Huffington Post website

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Pet Med Spotlight – Canex for dogs

Canex for dogs

Canex Multispectrum Allwormer for dogs, manufactured by Pfizer, is a medication in the form of a tablet given to dogs to control gastrointestinal worms, such as roundworm, hookworm, whipworm and tapeworm.

Given to dogs, puppies and lactating or pregnant dogs, Canex treats a wide range of worms (not including heartworm), and is sold as an appetizing meaty cube, chew or tablet that dogs love to eat.

Directions of use for Canex

Before giving your dog Canex Allwormer, they should be weighed so that the correct dosage can be given. A single Canex tablet will treat a 10kg dog. Fasting prior to the giving the dose is not necessary – tablets are palatable and easily administered to your dog or puppy whole or crushed and sprinkled onto its food.

When treating worms, ensure that all pets in the household are treated at the same time.

For puppies up to 12 weeks of age, commence treatment at two weeks of age. A dose of Canex should be given at 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of age. For older dogs over 12 weeks of age, give a dose every three months. More frequent treatment may be required for dogs and puppies that live in close confinement to other dogs, or where humid weather conditions prevail.

Spectrum of activity:

• Roundworm:
• Toxocara canis.
• Toxascaris leonina
• Hookworm:
• Ancylostoma caninum
• Ancylostoma braziliense
• Whipworm:
• Trichuris vulpis.
• Tapeworm:
• Echinococcus granulosus
• E. multilocularis
• Dipylidium caninum
• Taenia ovis, Taenia pisiformis, Taenia hydatigena.

Canex active ingredients

Canex Multispectrum Allwormer contains the following active ingredients – Praziquantel, Oxantel and Pyrantel Embonate.

How to buy Canex For Dogs

At BudgetPetCare.com we are delighted to offer an additional 5% discount when buying Canex For Dogs. Just use the coupon code BPC50 in your shopping cart when checking out. Prices start from just $8.29 for a 20ml pack of Multispectrumn Wormer Puppy Suspension.