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From pet health tips to ideas on fighting boredom and loneliness in pets, you can learn how to make your pets' lives better here.

What to do when your bunny won’t eat or drops food

Tuesday, Jul 14th, 2015 | By Dr. Marty Becker

When the answer to “What’s up, Doc?” is that your pet rabbit’s not eating normally, is dropping food, or is drooling, the problem defiitely requires a visit to the veterinarian […]

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Recognizing the sometimes confusing signs of feline hyperthyroidism

Thursday, Jul 9th, 2015 | By Dr. Marty Becker

High thyroid levels are fairly common in older cats, but the condition can be somewhat hard to recognize, especially in its early stages. A reader wrote asking me what I […]

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New DNA vaccine may help some dogs with oral melanoma

Thursday, Jul 2nd, 2015 | By Dr. Marty Becker

Few things strike quite as much fear in the hearts of pet lovers as a cancer diagnosis in their beloved companion. One reader wrote to ask me about a possible […]

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What to do when your cat keeps getting bladder infections

Tuesday, Jun 23rd, 2015 | By Dr. Marty Becker

As a veterinarian, I see plenty of cats who urinate outside the litterbox or have other signs of urinary tract disorders. Most of these cats have a medical, not behavioral, […]

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Help bring rescue and hope to suffering animals nationwide!

Sunday, Jun 21st, 2015 | By Dr. Marty Becker

In just the past ten years, the American Humane Association’s Red Star program has rescued, sheltered and cared for some 80,000 animals. They have fought to eradicate the gas chamber […]

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