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 What To Do If Your Greyhound Overheats
First, don't let it happen!
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Force Feeding Your Greyhound
In your greyhound's lifetime, you may encounter several instances in which it is appropriate to force feed your greyhound. Most greyhounds will permit you to force feed them.
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Greyhounds and Cavities
NGAP has been adopting greyhounds for twenty years and have run our dental clinic for almost as many. Needless to say, we have seen a LOT of greyhound teeth but surprisingly we don't see a lot of cavities!
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Ignorance is Bliss
Those of you that read the newsletters from the Ohio State University's Greyhound Health & Wellness Program have been given some terrible misinformation in the view of the National Greyhound Adoption Program. The Greyhound Health & Wellness Program, headed by Dr. C. Guillermo Couto DVM, has been in disagreement for several years with NGAP's philosophy of using thyroid supplementation to treat certain behavioral conditions that so many greyhounds have.
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How Your Gums Affect Your Heart
Scientists are increasingly observing a connection between oral health and heart conditions.
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Focusing on the Important Things
It is not uncommon for me to ask almost everyone that has a greyhound, "What is the most important impactible health issue for your greyhound?" Someone that doesn't know me may stop to think about it for a moment and, since I'm always so busy, I am quick to supply the answer rather than wait.
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Good Teeth
As you well know, we have written many, many articles that clearly show bad teeth. I felt it was time for us to show some good teeth for comparison! Included in this article are photos showing different areas of a greyhounds mouth as they should be. The gumline is the correct color of pink with just a minimal amount of root exposure on one upper molar. The canines look just perfect. If your dog's mouth is healthy, it should look like this.
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Your Greyhound's Toes
Toes can certainly be an annoying problem for greyhounds. Most often it's a corn or multiple corns on either one pad or multiple pads. Corn treatment is sometimes effective but often it is not.
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Is My Adopted Greyhound Getting Portly?
A clinic client brought her two dogs in and as they walk through the door I said, 'You're dogs are overweight!" To this, she replied, "Oh no, they can't be overweight! They look fine!" I said, "Wait just a minute."
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Don't Just Take Our Word For It
Lena, pictured with her owner Diane Irvin of Macungie, PA was adopted through First State Greyhound Rescue nearly eight years ago. Her teeth were...
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Greyhound T4 Testing and Hypothyroidism
Every greyhound adopted through National Greyhound Adoption Program is given a T4 test. The primary purpose of this test is not to determine if your greyhound is hypothyroid, but rather
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NGAP Dental Procedures: the Use Of Domitor Without Intubation
You always know when a particular protocol that you like works well when you have the opportunity to use it thousands of times with no complications or problems, whether during the procedure or after it...
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Why Greyhounds Bleed???
There has been some controversy in recent years regarding whether or not greyhounds bleed and to what extent during surgery or post-surgery. I believe National Greyhound Adoption Program is qualified to answer that in resounding terms based on our fifteen years of in-house surgical operation on greyhounds...
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When Limping Becomes Osteosarcoma
I wish I was wrong. After twenty years of caring for greyhounds, it appears that there are few exceptions to the rule. When an adopter calls us or comes to our clinic with a limping greyhound over the age of eight years old, that greyhound is almost always diagnosed with the same. Osteosarcoma. We can walk through the steps of diagnosis, but the outcome is almost always the same.
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Another Reason to Have Your Dog’s Teeth Cleaned
The picture below shows a whippet that had been found wandering the streets and was rescued by one of adopters. As we were performing a touch-up on the dog, we found that one of the molars was badly eroded and in need of extraction.
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Extraction Due to Blunt Force Trauma
Sunday night, June 7, I received a call from an adopter in New York about an altercation between his two greyhounds. One of them managed to smash the side of his jaw into some immovable object and the owner found that one of the dog’s canine teeth was pointing in an unnatural direction.
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Tetracycline Staining: Blazing Sweet
One afternoon, we received a call from an adopter who had recently added another greyhound from our adoption program to her home. She called to tell us how horrible this greyhound’s mouth was. Blazing Sweet was only 2-years-old and we had difficulty believing that one, we would have a greyhound with such a significant problem at age two and two, that we would have let it out our doors in such a condition.
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Greyhound Health: What Every Vet Should Know
Below is medical information appropriate to treating greyhounds. If you ever have any questions regarding the care of your greyhound clients, please do not hesitate to call us at any time.
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How Your Greyhound’s Mouth Impacts Your Wallet
Economic times are difficult at the moment and the thought of having a $700.00 bill for dental work may be more than your wallet can handle all in one shot. If your credit card is just about maxed out and your income stream is limited, your greyhound’s mouth may not be your top priority.
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Leg Amputation: Tigger
There are many different scenarios under which your greyhound may have to have its leg amputated. It may crash into a wall and have a fracture that is so bad that a leg amputation is the only option. Legs that have less damage can get screws, plates, wiring and a multitude of orthopedic procedures to correct the break so that it will heal correctly. Everyone must consider that factors such as age and cost before beginning either leg amputation or repair.
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Saving Your Canine’s Canines: Joe
We recently saw Joe, a 14-year-old greyhound, at our clinic. Although most of his teeth had been previously removed, he was now faced with extensive root exposure on his four canines. The two upper canines had approximately a ½ inch of exposed root each with significant plaque and tarter build-up.
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Fuzzy's Revere: Another Dental Tale
Recently we received some older dogs on a haul. Barbara from the kennel called me and said, “Mr. Wolf, do you know how old these dogs are?” Sure enough, I had requested a 6, 7, 8-year-old. Fuzzy’s Revere was one of those dogs. Born in 2001, she was obviously a brood, used to make more racing greyhounds and was sent to us in full blown heat.
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#1 Health Alert for Both New and Old Adopters-Piper
Your greyhounds teeth is the #1 impactible health issue in which you can make a significant difference and it actually starts before you bring a greyhound into your home. This is done by carefully selecting a greyhound that either has a good mouth to begin with or to adopt from a program that has done a really good job in addressing each of their greyhounds’ dental issues.
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Warning To All Dog Owners-Xylitol
Even if you don't have a dog, I'm sure you know
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The Gift of Life, The Gift of Death
Those of us who have adopted a greyhound have undoubtedly extended to that greyhound the “Gift of Life.” Surely, if it had not been adopted, it would have been euthanized in one way or another. It is our greatest hope that we have brought as much pleasure to its life, as it has to ours.
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Side Effects of Root Exposure
As they age, many greyhounds will suffer from extensive root exposure, especially on their upper and lower canines. This root exposed are has a texture like sandpaper in comparison to a tooth’s normal enamel covering and it has consequences you probably don’t even realize. I have yet to read anywhere where this common problem has been noted.
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Dental Touch-Ups
There is some debate in the veterinary community whether ultrasonic touch-ups on dogs not under anesthesia can truly be beneficial. When a dog is not under anesthesia, you are not able to get under the gum-line and do the backside of the teeth. We at National Greyhound Adoption Program have long believed that touch-ups are a valuable tool in stopping the progression of periodontal disease before it takes hold.
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Greyhounds...All Heart
Greyhounds are gentle, sweet natured, docile, affectionate and dedicated dogs; they are all heart, aren’t they. Did you know that they actually have some differences in their cardiovascular system compared with other breeds?
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Genericaly Called the Vulva Tuck
Everyone has seen people after they lost considerable amounts of weight where they have excess areas of skin hanging on their body. After substantial weight loss, people will then go in and have cosmetic procedures to get rid of this extra flab. With female greyhounds ...
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Greyhound Health Issues After Racing From Soup To Nuts
National Greyhound Adoption Program, although not the oldest adoption program in the United States, presently is the most diverse. We currently adopt approximately 500 greyhounds each year. We now will see many of them throughout their lives. We care for them coming directly from greyhound tracks and...
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A Letter About Timber and Electric Toothbrush
I'd been waiting till Timber was happy to stand up again for her teeth brushing with the electric toothbrush because her enthusiasm showed more clearly just how eagerly she awaited the treat. She just loved the electric toothbrush and it helped her teeth and gum health enormously!...
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Greyhound T4 Testing and Hypothyroidism
Every greyhound adopted through National Greyhound Adoption Program is given a T4 test. The primary purpose of this test is not to determine if your greyhound is hypothyroid, but rather to establish a baseline of where your greyhound’s thyroid level is. A high percentage...
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Greyhound Dental Care
The diet of a racing greyhound includes high bacteria food (raw 4-D meat). This bacteria-laden food easily forms tartar and plaque on a greyhound’s teeth which, if not removed, will push back the gum lining exposing the root...
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Corns in Greyhounds
Corns are hard, painful areas which form on the pads of some Greyhounds. They are typically circular in shape and have a hard core that projects up into the pad causing a great deal of pain...
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