Jane Lilley raises the spectre of Horner’s syndrome and describes a number of dogs with drooping eyes, some of which had suspected ear infections as a root cause, but others had no apparent cause at all. Horner’s syndrome is of curse a human medical term and how our doctors love to confuse their subject by [...]
Autoimmune Disease Some dogs appear to have a faulty immune system and consequently an immune response to their own proteins. Normally the system in a newly weaned puppy recognizes the proteins which go to make up its own body and refrains from reacting with an immune response to the components of its own blood, for [...]
The heart is an amazing structure. It functions as a pump circulating blood around the body and if it fails death follows rapidly. It is a remarkable fact that this organ contracts regularly at around 50-80 beats per minute every hour, every day. If my maths do not fail me, that is over 25 million [...]