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VirtuaVet Vs Chihuahua! The Chihuahua Manual eBook Already Updated

Doc Truli vs. the Chihuahua, a formidable, adorable, unique dog with traits and needs found in no other dogs.

The Chihuahua Manual

Purse Ninja Pocket Guide

Information you need to know about your Chihuahua

Dear Chihuahua Fanatics,

Originally published April 26, 2010, my first Chihuahua Manual has already been updated, per customer enthusiasm. I know these little “land sharks,” as veterinarians like to call them, are secretly the most lovable, fun, and heart-grabbing dogs. My Chihuahua, Chiquita Bovita (white with black Holstein cow spots) was my diminutive soulmate. Stop fighting and misunderstanding your Chihauhua today and get that perfect companion you dreamed of in the first place!

Please enjoy The Chihuahua Manual, Purse Ninja Pocket Guide!

Yours,

Doc Truli

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Learn to raise a Chihuahua who is so friendly, your friends just can’t believe it!
Select a bed for your Chihuahua that makes house training quick and clear!
Use the comprehensive first year Chihuahua medical budget to pay for everything you need and nothing you don’t!
Save money by choosing the best pet insurance plan!
Learn the surefire solution to preventing low blood sugar in teacup Chihuahuas
Learn the secrets to effective house training
Have a Worry-free Chihuahua: learn when shaking, dancing, rolling, and refusing to budge are normal
Gear up for adventure with your Chihuahua: cars, boats, even motorcycle Chihuahua gear
Learn the secret to happy Chihuahuas and children
Learn how to leverage a pet sitter for a happier Chihuahua
Learn games Chihuahuas Love to Play

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Excerpt from “Playing Games With Your Chihuahua” Chapter of The Chihuahua Manual:

“Chihuahuas are supposed to be lap dogs. But, in their role as personal appendages, they also relish a little privacy. Not much, but a little bit. Does your Chihuahua take a piece of food and run under a chair to work on it? (Be sure the eating area is safe, peaceful and quiet.) Do dog bones and treats pile up under the bed and sofa? Or under the pillows in the corners of the sofa? This is the Chihuahua need for privacy, not a terrier-like burrowing fixation. A toy basket or toy box, a sleeping crate, and a family with people who pay attention and design their daily schedule to include the puppy give a Chihuahua a sense of steadiness and security. Respect the little one’s very little needs for privacy. After all, your Chihuahua will probably sit on your arm, lap, or chest 90% of the time you are not working, a little kitchen area, bathroom, sleeping area, and toy chest of his or her own is not too much to ask!”

Doc Truli shares the love of Chihuahuas and the insight of a veterinarian in The Chihuahua Manual: Purse Ninja Pocket Guide. Join the fun today! Updates are free. Get more and more medical advice and heartwarming Chihuahua stories for just one purchase price.

“I love Chihuahuas, Chi CHi CHI! I hope you’ll take advantage of my hard work and insight and get your own copy of The Chihuahua Manual today, and free Updates as I continue to add Chihuahua advice and inspirational Chihuahua Stories. All Chihuahuas, all the time!” says Doc Truli.

How to Tell If Your Dog is Fat

25 pound Beagle weighs 65 pounds. This is like a person who weighs 600 pounds and cannot get out of bed or fit through the doors to go out.

"I'm not fat, I'm...not fluffy!"

How to Tell How Much Padding Your Dog Should Have

Use Body Condition Score: BCS!

Body condition score is a semi-objective way to get an idea if your dog has the right amount of weight for his or her body structure.

The weights and weight ranges published for pure-breed dogs are show standards. The show standard means the breeder organization (fanciers) of that breed want a dog of their breed to fall within a certain weight range. This is no guarantee that your dog will become only that size. It also is no insurance that a 18 pound Shih Tzu in a 10-pound Shih Tzu frame is okay, even though the numbers might fit the breed standard.

A majority of dogs are of mixed-breed descent. You cannot look in any book to really get any idea of how much a mutt should weigh. It is pure guesswork. Continue reading “How to Tell If Your Dog is Fat”

Tibetan Terrier Grows Red Bump in One Day

This is a difficult moment in any pet parent’s life. You’ve noticed a mass. You ponder how it came to be. You hope you can think of a “good” reason for the lump.

Tibetan Terrier Pink Bump on Nose — Tibetan Terrier Bump

A two-year-old Tibetan Terrier beauty rescued from the pound when she was one, Lucy was the pride of her pappa’s life.

“Doctor,” whispered her concerned human,”Lucy has this mass, this growth, this…thing on her nose. There was nothing, and them suddenly, there it was. I hope it’s nothing bad.”

This is a difficult moment in any pet parent’s life. You’ve noticed a mass. You ponder how it came to be. You hope you can think of a “good” reason for the lump.

“The cat scratched Lucy two weeks ago when they were playing. Maybe it’s an infection?” said the dad.

“Don’t tell me it’s anything bad.” Continue reading “Tibetan Terrier Grows Red Bump in One Day”

8-Year-Old Cocker Spaniel With Lump on Belly

“I don’t want to do surgery if it’s something bad, I just want her to be happy,” said Lily’s person.

Buff Cocker Spaniel Dog looks up — "Are we starting surgery?"

Lily’s Lump Lasted Six Months

“Doc, there’s this lump on Lily’s side that’s been bothering me,” said the Cocker Spaniel’s mom.

“I know she’s had the fatty lump on her shoulder for years, and the other fatty lump on her chest that you check every year, but there’s a new, hard lump on her belly,” she said.

Indeed, Lily had a round, firm, non-moveable lump located along her mammary gland chain on her belly.

“I don’t want to do surgery if it’s something bad, I just want her to be happy,” said Lily’s person.

Continue reading “8-Year-Old Cocker Spaniel With Lump on Belly”

Complex Chemical Analysis

The Vomeronasal Organ in most vertebrates performs the complex chemical analysis.

The Vomeronasal Organ

The Vomeronasal Organ in most vertebrates performs the complex chemical analysis.

If you see your dog or cat “licking” at urine and then seemingly pushing the tongue up on the palate, like a wine connoisseur, or if you see them sniff with their mouth partly open, eyes slit, and then maybe drool profusely, and maybe chomp or swish their lips like a fine wine taster, that’s the use of the vomeronasal complex. They are performing a phlehmen (pronounced flay-men) gesture, or phlehmen response. Some dogs may look like they are smiling, crinkling their nose, almost sneezing, while they perform the phlehmen response.

Human Sixth Sense

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Judge Called to Save Death-Row Rottweiler

“Some animal shelters will not adopt out a large-breed dog with the propensity to bite. They simply cannot aford to be sued by a grieving family if the dog hurts or maims a family member — a child, for instance. The persistence of this good samaritan saved this dog and gave her a normal life!” said Doc Truli.

Shelter Website Advertises Rottweiler for Adoption

The picture was sooo cute. A 6-month-old Rottweiler girl was found running the streets, taken to the shelter, and posted on the adoption website. Doc Truli’s client, Tom, fell in love with Heidi right away. He didn’t even call first. He shot off an email to reserve her, hopped in his car and boogied over the shelter to pick her up.

“We’re sorry sir, that puppy is deemed unadoptable and must be destroyed.”

Tom couldn’t believe his ears.

“But I just saw her picture on the adoption website on the internet and I came over to pick her up,” he said. Continue reading “Judge Called to Save Death-Row Rottweiler”

Hypothyroidism in 14-Year Old Golden Retriever

“Doc, I shaved Haley last summer to help with the heat, and to help make sure there were no fleas or ticks. Then that fur in the back there never grew back in!”

“Help! I shaved my dog and now the fur won’t grow back!”

Haley smiled up for a picture from Doc Truli. Her front end wore a clown-face mask of grey and white fur. Her bald nether regions told a different story!

“Doc, I shaved Haley last summer to help with the heat, and to help make sure there were no fleas or ticks. Then that fur in the back there never grew back in!”

Haley had dental calculus build-up, skinny, atrophied hind limb muscles, and no fur on her tail, back of her legs, or part-way up her rump! How embarrassing. Continue reading “Hypothyroidism in 14-Year Old Golden Retriever”

1-Year-Old Shih Tzu Mistakes Eyeglasses for Snack

“Well, Doc, we caught her on our bed last night, chewing my eyeglasses into smithereens,” said Fendi’s dad.

black and white yearling shih tzu looks guilty after eating eyeglasses — Fendi the Shih Tzu looks guilty after eating dad's eyeglasses!

Glass Makes for a Scary Snack!

Fendi, a black and white one-year-old Shih Tzu wagged her tail and attempted to climb on Doc Truli’s shoulder. Fendi’s first visit to Doc Truli was off to a good start.

“What ‘re we in for today?”

“Well, Doc, we caught her on our bed last night, chewing my eyeglasses into smithereens,” said Fendi’s dad.

Seriously?

“We found her with pieces of glass littered all around her, and a piece of glass in her mouth. Then this morning, Fendi had a small amount of fresh red blood in her stool,” dad continued.

Fendi wagged her tail when she heard her name.

Her physical examination was normal. No more stool problems. No cuts in her mouth. Soft, nonpainful abdomen. No fever, normal vital signs.

“Unfortunately, glass will not show on X-Rays. Fendi shows no evidence of discomfort, or a problem, so watch for vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, or any change in her appetite or behavior,” said Doc Truli.

“By the way, how did you hear about the animal hospital?”

Fendi’s dad said,”Your Yellow Page ad was large and easy to see, especially because I was nearly blind without my glasses!”

eyeglasses chewed by shih tzu — The left lens (on the right of the picture) is gone! The right lens is missing a chunk of glass!

1-Year Old Chihuahua's Eye Pops Out

Once the eyeball slips out from the eye socket and in front of the eyelids, the lids usually form a tight band behind the eye, preventing it from easily sliding back in.

Beautiful tan short-haired 1-year-old chihuahua loses his eye after a car door hits him on the head — This soulful tan chihuahua gazes at the camera with his good left eye. The spot where his right eye used to be is now a line of stitches holding the empty lids together.

Chihuahua Versus Car Door

Chi Chi’s head ran into an open car door. His right eye popped out of the socket. When this happens, sometimes, it is mild and the optic nerve running in to the center back of the eye is only stretched, not ripped, and sight is preserved. In Chi-Chi’s case, the nerve ripped.

Why Won’t That Eyeball Just Go Back In?

Once the eyeball slips out from the eye socket and in front of the eyelids, the lids usually form a tight band behind the eye, preventing it from easily sliding back in. In you take a dog (or cat) directly to the vet right away, under sedation, your pet’s eyelids can undergo a small release incision, the eyeball is replaced, and then some stitches tighten the eyelids so they can hold the eye globe in place.

Continue reading “1-Year Old Chihuahua's Eye Pops Out”

6-Year-Old Miniature Pinscher X Dachshund Obsesses About Water

Elmo ended up in the doggy intensive care from drinking too much water.

red miniature pinscher dachschund mix folds his ears back nervously at the animal hospital — Nervous Elmo

Drinking Too Much Water Lands Dog in the Intensive Care Unit

Elmo’s Drinking was a Bigger Problem Than his Family Knew

Elmo drank too much water. If you set a bucket of water in front of him, he’d drink right to the bottom. While this may sound amusing for a party trick, he ended up in the doggy intensive care before his veterinarian diagnosed the problem.

Elmo became weak, trembling, staggering, retching and vomiting. He needed intravenous fluids and medications to become well again. How did this happen?

Before his family even knew he had a problem, Elmo drank so much water he washed his electrolytes out of his system. Once the electrolytes go out of balance, death closes in.

Continue reading “6-Year-Old Miniature Pinscher X Dachshund Obsesses About Water”