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Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook 


Table of Contents:-

Index of Signs and Symptoms.
Finding It Quick.
List of Charts and Tables.
Introduction.
Chapter 1--Emergencies.
Chapter 2--Intestinal Parasites.
Chapter 3--Infectious Diseases.
Chapter 4--The Skin and Coat.
Chapter 5--The Eyes.
Chapter 6--The Ears.
Chapter 7--The Nose.
Chapter 8--The Mouth and Throat.
Chapter 9--The Digestive System.
Chapter 10--The Respiratory System.
Chapter 11--The Circulatory System.
Chapter 12--The Nervous System.
Chapter 13--The Musculoskeletal System.
Chapter 14--The Urinary System.
Chapter 15--Sex And Reproduction.
Chapter 16--Pregnancy and Whelping.
Chapter 17--Pediatrics.
Chapter 18--Tumors and Cancers.
Chapter 19--Geriatrics.
Chapter 20--Drugs and Medications.
Appendix A--Normal Physiological Data.
Appendix B--Comparative Age of Dogs to Humans.
Appendix C--Organizations and Addresses.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
The Authors.
General Index.


INDEX OF SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

Abdomen painful
  • pot-bellied look
  • swollen or distended
  • tucked up
Acting aggressive
  • confused and disoriented,
  • queer or unusual (personality change
Appetite
  • increased
  • loss of (refusal to eat
Barking excessively
Biting at skin
  • at rear
Bleeding
Bloating
Breast. Mammary glands, swollen or enlarged
Breath
  • offensive odor
Breathing
  • abnormally
  • croupy sounding
  • noisily
  • obstructed sounding
  • through mouth
Breathing
  • rapid or labored
Champing and chewing
Choking
Collapsing (fainting
Constipation
Coughing
Depression
Diarrhea
Dizziness
Dribbling of urine
Drinking more than usual (thirst)
Drooling
Ear discharge
Eye(s)
  • bulging
  • bloudy
  • fischarge
  • runny eye
  • tearing
  • film across
  • painful
  • red
  • sunken
  • yellow (jaundice)
Eyesight
Failing
Fever
Gagging
Gums and
  • tongue bluish
  • dry
  • pale
Hair
  • dull and lifeless
  • falling out
Head
  • shaking
  • tilt
Hearing with difficulty
Hoarseness (loss of bark)
Incontinence
  • (loss of control) of urine
  • of stool
Joints, swollen
Lethargy (loss of pep)
Licking
  • at anus
  • at paws
  • at penis
  • at rear
  • at vulva,
Limping (lameness
Lips in spasm (retracted
Lumps and bumps
Mammary glands
  • swollen or enlarged
Nasal discharge (runny nose)
Nosebleed
Paddling (collapsing and kicking feet wildly
Panting
Paralysis
Pawing
  • at ear
  • at mouth
  • at nose
Penile discharge
Pulse (heart rate),
Pupils dilated,
Regurgitating
Retching
Scooting
Scratching
  • at ears
  • at skin
Seizures (fits, convulsions).
Sneezing
Snoring and snorting
Squinting (shutting down eye)
Stools
  • bloody or tarry
  • streaked with blood
Straining
  • at stool
  • to urinate
Staggering
Stumbling (wobbly gait)
Swallowing with pain or difficulty
Tremors of muscles
Urinating
  • inappropriately
  • more often than usual
  • with pain and difficulty
Urine blood in
Vaginal discharge postpartum
Vomiting
Vulva, swollen
Weakness
Weight loss
Wheezing