Chihuahuas are often just bought for a few months, and some are even less than three months. The change of environment and its low immunity are particularly prone to illness. The following points we should avoid:
1, too much play with family fatigue to low resistance.
2. Diseases such as cold skin transmitted by playing with other dogs.
3, feeding it irregularly, giving it everything, excessive, oily, too cold food is easy to cause diarrhea.
4. There is no gradual change in food.
5. I took a shower as soon as I bought it. After washing it, I didn't use a hair dryer to dry it, and I caught cold until I caught a cold.
6, the stomach caught cold, did not give it a belly. The invasion point of chihuahua disease. (very critical)
7, sleep without bedding or bedding kicked off, when it is cold, the cage is not wrapped.
8, drink less water, enough to be hungry, but never cut off water.
The newly bought puppy has weak resistance, bad environment, improper care and poor physical foundation. When you get home, you should first inject serum into a reliable animal hospital to enhance your resistance. The effective time of serum is only 7 days. Don't let it go out, don't take a bath, and dogs and their owners don't touch other dogs during these 7 days. Use this time to observe its appetite, defecation, body temperature, mental state, whether the nose is wet, etc. Clip the thermometer in the hairless part of the inner thigh for 5 minutes, and the temperature above 39 degrees is fever. Dogs with fever, runny nose, cough, diarrhea and other symptoms should seek medical treatment immediately, and must not delay.
If your puppy is healthy and lively, congratulations. When it reaches 50 days, you can take it to the hospital for the first injection of imported canine six-vaccine. This vaccine can prevent six kinds of acute infectious diseases in dogs, including canine distemper, canine parvovirus, leptospirosis, infectious hepatitis, infectious bronchitis and parainfluenza. It should be injected three times in the first year, with an interval of 2 1 day, and then injected 1 time every year. The imported canine hexavaccine has good quality and high protection rate.
When your puppy is three months old, it should be vaccinated against rabies, once a year 1 time. Vaccination of rabies vaccine is the obligation of dog owners, and it is also the content stipulated by dog-raising laws and regulations, and vaccination must be carried out.
When you take it for vaccination next year, it should be about one month earlier than the previous year to avoid accidents when the last vaccine is about to expire.
When injecting vaccines, please supervise the following points in order to avoid being harmed by bad hospitals:
1. The temperature of the puppy should be taken before injection, and the vaccine can only be injected in a very healthy state;
2. Check whether the vaccine is expired, whether it is imported, and whether the nurse has injected all the liquid medicine;
3. The hospital should provide an immunization record book and remind you of the time of the next injection;
4. Vaccines should use the same brand, otherwise it may cause immune failure.
Reasonable Chihuahua Daily Life
Sleep: Chihuahua dog has a strong biological clock, so it will be sleepy at a certain time in the evening. Don't let the host stay up late, and some people usually have the habit of taking a nap.
Eating: feed two meals a day, 20 to 50 capsules each, 9 am and 5 pm. Snacks are given as rewards and training, and eaten after dinner, not for filling the stomach. Don't let the baby doll starve even if it is picky about food.
Drinking water: you can hang a water bottle with balls on the cage. Advantages: convenient and clean, avoiding pollution and knocking over.
Excretion: If there is a courtyard in the home, set up a piece of land for Chihuahua to excrete. For families living in apartments, the ideal thing is to train dogs to go to the toilet conveniently. Put a large plastic plate in the toilet with a newspaper on it, which is very convenient for washing.
Keep warm: in autumn and winter, the temperature changes sharply, so we should always keep warm. During the day, in the room below 25 degrees, wrap the belly and stomach with a piece of wool cloth, fix it with a rope, and put on clothes. So should air-conditioned rooms in summer, even healthy dolls, which can effectively prevent symptoms such as colds and vomiting.
In cold nights, put it in a cotton bed laid underground, or use a 40-watt light bulb to shine outside the cage, and the cage is wrapped with cloth. You don't have to shine the light after eight months.
Bathing: Wash the bathtub or large pool with a warm faucet and apply it with shampoo. Note: When washing your head, be sure to cover your ears to prevent water from entering the ear canal. Wipe the water off your body with a bath towel after taking a shower. After that, be sure to blow it with a hair dryer until it is completely dry. Take a bath in winter/kloc-once every 0/0 day.
Walking the dog: Hold the rope and watch the dog's behavior at all times. Don't let it eat foreign objects or feces. Chihuahuas try not to come into contact with sick dogs.
Chihuahuas usually take care of their families when they are sick.
Dogs have many diseases, and if they want to be cured, they always go through the procedure of diagnosis and re-treatment. The treatment methods include drug therapy, physical therapy, surgery and so on. The so-called "one care, two drugs" shows the importance of caring for diseases.
Animals are made up of body and spirit. Even if the disease is properly treated, if there is no environment and warmth suitable for the disease and meticulous care, it will not be able to receive good treatment results.
(a) the owner's attitude towards care:
(1) Ask veterinarians more about nursing methods, and then do it:
When a dog is sick, it is necessary to keep quiet besides giving medicine, and the sick body and the owner must follow it carefully to have a therapeutic effect. For example, after diarrhea and defecation, be sure to wipe the anus with gauze dipped in warm water to prevent the dog from itching and causing eczema.
(2) Must have relevant knowledge of diseases:
No matter what disease you have, when the condition is serious, everyone will feel uneasy and anxious about the hope of recovery. It is very important to follow the doctor's instructions, take proper care of them and have correct knowledge.
(3) Take medicine for medical treatment every day and don't give up in the middle of treatment;
When a dog is sick, the owner often goes to the hospital every day when his condition is serious. Once he gets better, he will not go to the hospital or seriously ill or chronic diseases. It is very dangerous not to go to the hospital for treatment once the treatment effect is difficult to see. If his condition worsens, it will be too late to commit another crime.
(2) Care for various diseases:
(1) When vomiting:
Dogs are prone to vomit. It doesn't matter if there is no abnormal phenomenon before and after vomiting, especially when dogs eat its vomit after vomiting.
Otherwise, if you vomit several times a day, you will want to drink water after vomiting, but often you will spit out the water you drank, so you want to drink water and vomit again. This is very serious. Pay attention to the amount of water that can moisten your mouth. Many owners do not know the situation and try to give water, which will worsen the symptoms. This should be paid special attention to.
(2) When diarrhea occurs:
This is an unusual symptom of vomiting. Diarrhea is caused by the rapid passage of intestinal substances or intestinal mucosal lesions and hypersecretion.
If the diarrhea is not serious and the appetite is poor, it is absolutely impossible to give it as much food as possible, which is difficult to digest.
If you have a lot of diarrhea in a day, it is best not to eat the disease all day to ease it. After a hunger strike, you will feed liquid food, such as porridge soup, in a small number of times, and then gradually give porridge-soft rice-ordinary food.
(3) When loss of appetite:
Loss of appetite is caused by illness. If the original disease is not cured, there will naturally be no appetite. However, if the dog does not vomit and feel sick, a small amount of liquid food can be forcibly filled with a rubber tube, or meatballs can be stuffed into its mouth by hand. Sometimes this method will make the dog have an appetite.
(4) When you have runny nose and gum:
Some diseases will have nasal discharge, especially when you have a cold. At this time, use cotton wool or cotton swab to wipe it. After wiping it clean, olive oil can be applied to avoid dry and cracked nose.
When you have gum, you can use 2% boric acid water to wipe it with cotton, and then point non-irritating eye drops.
(5) When high fever occurs:
Fever is caused by illness, which is a manifestation of the body's resistance to the disease. If the fever should occur, but the temperature is very low, it means that the condition is serious. If the high fever lasts for too long, it will weaken the physical strength, so measures must be taken to reduce the temperature.
When you have a high fever, your pulse will accelerate and your breathing frequency will increase, making it difficult to breathe. These should be paid special attention to. When you have a fever, the most important thing is to keep quiet. Sometimes you will feel cold and tremble when your body temperature rises (especially in winter). It is necessary to make the bed thick and prepare hot water bottles and heating appliances, and at the same time, do not let the wind blow in from the gap between the kennels.
(6) When coughing:
Cough is a defensive action to discharge secretions or foreign bodies from the trachea. Those without phlegm are dry coughs, while those with phlegm are called wet coughs. Cough mostly occurs when eating, exercising and barking. It is easy to cough when suffering from various respiratory diseases and heart diseases. When coughing is too intense, it will spit out phlegm and food in the stomach. The care for coughing is to make the dog quiet and stop exercising.
(7) Skin diseases:
The PH value of human skin is 4.5 ~ 6.0, which is acidic, which can prevent the growth of bacteria and bacteria, and at the same time, it can resist the stimulation of physical chemistry and protect the skin and acid skin bacteria from breeding. 95% of dogs' skin has a PH value of 6.2 ~ 8.6, so it is easy to get infected with bacteria and suffer from dermatosis. Especially in summer, the higher PM value becomes a hotbed for bacterial reproduction, and at the same time, it forces them to cope with the summer heat. Because regulating body temperature makes the skin blood vessels dilate and the blood in the viscera decrease, the digestive function is weakened, the sebum secretion of sebaceous glands decreases, and it is easy to suffer from external stimulation and inflammation, so it is easy to suffer from dermatosis in summer.
Skin diseases will inevitably itch, and dogs will scratch and make their condition worse. At the same time, dogs will lick and cause poisoning because of the use of external drugs. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to prevent dogs from licking drugs. At this time, a round neck ring can be made of thin skin or thick paper and put around the dog's neck to prevent dogs from biting the affected part when skin diseases itch.
As for the use of external medicine prescribed by veterinarians, it is not only to apply it, but also to spread it evenly by hand for absorption by the affected part. It is often seen that some owners apply thick ointment to the affected part, which is wrong.
Keep the essential items of Chihuahua well
1, doll home cage
A drinking bottle (which can be hung on a cage)
Cotton nest (can be placed in cage)
Plastic dish for excretion (large size) (can also be placed under the cage)
2, doll warm clothes that fit (not too big)
Thick soft wool cloth15 * 20cm, wool, etc. (used to wrap the belly).
Cotton rope (stockings can also be used to wrap the belly of the package to prevent catching cold and kicking the quilt)
Cotton-padded tires (used as mattresses), suede old sofa towels (used as quilts)
Sheets or curtains (wrapped around the cage when sleeping at night in cold weather)
40w small desk lamp (taken outside the cage 8 months ago to keep warm)
3. Dolls eat plates with food and cowhide bones (biting helps teething and replaces brushing teeth).
4, doll medical 5ml plastic needle tube (feeding medicine, side feeding)
5. The rope for the doll to lead the dog when traveling (it is best to put on the back)
6, doll cleaning dog shampoo, small bath towels (more than two pieces), hair dryer, cotton swab stick (for ear removal)