Veterinarians provide support for all animals, especially the pets that must remain healthy in your home. Animal hospitals can solve any emergency day or night. With your dogs like members of the family, it is important to have the best care for “man’s best friend.” Dog grooming services and dog dental care are part of those services.
Dog Clinics
While you are the most important individual responsible for care for your pet, there is much to be said for the vet clinics that are able to help maintain your dog’s health. Starting with vaccines during the early puppy months, there is the immediate follow-up of the need for spaying and neutering of your dogs. Without this, there is the potential for very dangerous infections as your dog gets older.
Dog Grooming Services
While it is sometimes ignored, things like shedding dog hair, long nails, accidents while you are away, and many more, can make the home unsafe for you and your children. Sometimes even slight amounts of pet dander can cause breathing or allergy problems in your home, especially when dog hair can become embedded in your vents and ducts with the heating and air conditioning systems working.
Dog Dental Care
With the number of dogs that have periodontal disease, as much as 80% by age three, there is a great benefit to starting dog dental care from an early age. Dental disease causes many additional health problems for dogs, just as it does in humans, and can end up costing you much more in veterinary expenses over time if it goes untreated. You are also able to help maintain dog dental care at home. Dog brushing kits are available at retail and pet stores, and they help you reach as much as 90% of your dog’s teeth without even flossing. This can help prevent all those long-term negative effects of dental disease.
Any of these issues may be an emergency need, while other times it may just be something that comes up regularly. Either way, it is important to look for signs that your dog is uncomfortable with their mouth or other parts of the body. Grooming and dental care are important for your dog, just as they are for you and everyone else in your home. Therefore, the vet or animal hospital is an important location to be familiar with, just in case a last-minute trip is needed.