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Ingestion of Unwanted objects by Pets

  Ingestion of Unwanted objects by Pets: Well it’s a very difficult state to explain the exact treatment of this issue, as we know that the object may cause severe damages to entire Gastro intestinal tract. So firstly we need to know about the different conditions which can occur when your dog or cat ingest any object which is unwanted or should not be ingested. Following could be the conditions: 1.        Dog/Cat may feel the issue of difficulty breathing, and this could be the worst form of this problem. In this form you may need to reach the Vet as soon as possible, because it could be more damaging. 2.        Dog/Cat if ingested or chew something electric cord like structure which can be in shocked form than you firstly need to remove the main switch and after that rub the body of dog/cat with any wooden object, it will reduce the electric potential. 3.        Medicinal form of ingestion is that form when your pet ingest any medicine which he shouldn’t take and in a over

Increasing Milk Production in Dairy Animals

  Increasing Milk Production in Dairy Animals Hy..! This is Dr Zahid Afzal today I would like to discuss a very frequent asking question about increase in milk production by both of Vets and the farmers, A detailed Video about this topic already uploaded on YouTube you can watch it by clicking here . So I want to clear that increasing milk production is not a rocket science, you don’t need to be highly experienced, qualified and a lot of expensive techs required here. Just by following simple steps you will be able to increase the milk production but along with this you can also maintain the boosted immune system of that animal. Increasing milk production is high demanding specially in Central Asia due to increasing consumption of milk. Here we need to look out at few steps or reasons firstly, that how these factors help in decreasing the milk production. Following are the reasons: 1.        Stress: Stress is basically a first reason for any animal to reduce her production even

Good and Bad Foods For Dogs & Cats

 Hy This is Dr Zahid Afzal from General Veterinary Hospital Lahore, In this post I will answer a most frequently asked question that which food is good for Cats and Dogs and which one they should not take. So bellow is the detailed List. Good Foods: 1. Cat and Dog Dry Food  2. Chicken Boneless Boiled  3. Mutton Boneless Boiled 4. Beef Boneless Boiled 5. Vegetable of green origin boiled 6. Egg white Boiled 7. Boiled Potato  8. Boiled Carrot  9. Gravy Foods  10. Meat Broths Bad Foods: All foods of human consumption are prohibited and contraindicated in dogs and cats few them are mentioned below: 1. Chocolates  2. Choco Biscuits  3. All kind of Candies 4. Fried Food 5. Fast Food  6. Cakes of all sorts  7. Sweets 8. Green leaves vegetables 9. Dry form of cereals  10. Alcohol related items Above mentioned are the items catagorized according to need of body, beside this some pets may develop digestibility to digest all kinds of food, but this doesn't work for all kind of animals. I ho

Online Advice for Pet, Good OR Bad..?

  Say No to Online Consultation for Pet’s Health: Hy..This is Dr Zahid Afzal from General Veterinary Hospital Lahore, today I want to discuss with you a very important topic which could lead to even death of our pet. The topic is getting online consultation about your pets. Do you think is it ok for you to take an online advice from any person about ongoing health issue of your pet…? No..? Yes..? Let me give you an example, suppose you got diabetes from last two years, now suddenly one day you got an severe attack sue to high blood pressure and now you are unable to visit any hospital or clinic or any doctor. Suppose in this situation you called your friend who is also diabetic from last 15 years, and he/she advice you to take a random Pill ABC. As soon as you took that pill, you fell down and got unconscious. Now what would be the reason of this according to you..? Let me tell the exact reason, there are many medications that impact on body depending on drug adoption system of t

Paralysed Cat by Accidnet

 Case No. 002: A cat got paralysed after an accident by a car.  Hy this is Dr Zahid Afzal DVM, recently got a case of cat which is is basically a hit and run case by a car. Few surrounded people saw the cat and one of them took her to my clinic for any urgency treatment. I gave detailed checkup to her, although she was not in senses and quite aggressive towards humans. Definitely she should be as one of us hit her by car and ran from the spot without even looking into her. Anyhow the person who took her to me by himself a labor of some factory.  After examining and detailed checkup I found two option which could be happen to the cat which are as following: 1. Cat had a muscular rupture. 2. Nerves of cat could be compressed Before giving any final final judgement we need to check some treatments, so I gave the cat a strong pain killer which not only reduces the pain but also could be helpful in type of swelling in the body. The name of that pain killer was Ketoject. Along with this the

Leg Pulling in Veterinary Field

  Leg pulling in Veterinary Clinical Practice of Pakistan; Hy..! This is Dr Zahid Afzal from General veterinary hospital Lahore. Today I just want to discuss a single line topic that how we the Vets of Pakistan are doing leg pulling and how this strategy is ruining the veterinary practice in Pakistan.   Now a days it’s became a common policy of every Vet that he/she had to degrade the vet by showing irrelevant skills which may he don’t possess. I’m not here to blame a single vet or group of vets but I’m here to discuss with all of you that what should be our policy and by this single policy how we can boost up our business and practice. Commonly there are many quacks in different areas of Pakistan, in quacks I’m not talking about the Veterinary Assistants. I’m talking about the quacks who didn’t possess any type of technical and professional degree/diploma but still they are in practice and also ruining other’s practice. Now come to the major leg pulling which we are commonly fac