It is a concrete fact that the needs of a pet can vary throughout its life. Providing the utmost care for all the years of their lives helps them lead healthy and happy lives. Just as keeping your pet healthy is a lifelong commitment, providing the best care at every stage is also a compulsion. It is essential that for each stage of your furry friend’s life, you need to create a plan and follow a series of mandatory steps to maintain their quality of life. Daily or life stage requirements continue to change with each ascending and critical stage of your pet’s life. From now on, according to the needs of their growing years, you must satisfy them all.

At each stage you pass, explore and learn the basic requirements that are unavoidable for your optimal health at each stage of life.

Puppy and kitten care

A newly adopted puppy or kitten needs exclusive care for optimal growth. Not just the regular visits to the vet, but here are the numerous things you need to be aware of.

The first step is to plan a visit to the veterinarian for your pet’s physical exam as soon as possible.

The second is to examine your furry friend for fleas, ticks, intestinal parasites, or any other health issues. This will ensure that the new member is fit and does not transmit any diseases to other animals or humans.

Puppies and kittens are very prone to parasitic infections. To protect them against preventive diseases, it is crucial to start a flea and tick prevention program. This controls flea and tick infestations and protects your puppy or kitten against flea and tick-borne diseases.

In addition to flea and tick preventatives, treat your furry baby friend with dewormers. Sometimes the worms are passed to puppies and kittens from their mothers. Therefore, regular dewormer treatment helps eliminate worms and controls multiple worm infections in your furry child.

Along with other parasitic infections, puppies are also prone to heartworm disease due to their low immunity. Your vet will test you for heartworm disease. If the result is negative, you can start monthly heartworm preventatives. These are available in flavored chews that are easy to administer to puppies.

Low immunity not only makes puppies susceptible to heartworm disease, but other preventable diseases as well. Therefore, vaccination is essential to protect your four-legged child from these diseases. Your veterinarian can prepare a vaccination plan for your pet, so he can be sure not to miss any vaccinations.

Basic pet training, social media, and proper feeding along with lots of petting are other things to keep in mind as your puppy or kitten grows.

However, it becomes crucial to take your furry friend to a vet if you notice the following signs or symptoms in your furry child.

• Drinking or urinating excessively
• sudden weight loss
• loss of appetite
• Sudden increase in appetite.
• behavior changes
• Ear odors, redness, head shaking, scratching, or head shaking
• Trouble passing stool or urination
• Lumps, bumps, or skin irritation
• Bad breath, plaque, or bleeding gums
• diarrhea or vomiting
• unable to walk
• seems lethargic

adult pet care

As your puppy/kitten grows into an adult, certain things change in your pet care regimen. First of all, the pet’s diet should be changed according to its body weight and conditions. An adult requires more food compared to growing puppies or kittens. Additionally, adult pets should be examined at least twice a year to prevent or detect any unlikely health problems.

As pets age faster, extra care should be taken at this stage, as health problems can also progress rapidly. Some of the common problems faced by adult furry friends are ear and eye diseases, dental conditions, obesity, endocrine diseases, intestinal parasites, tumors or lumps, and skin diseases, especially due to fleas and ticks. Although your pet may appear normal, some of these diseases are not detectable in the early stages. While conditions such as intestinal parasite infestations, skin diseases due to external parasites, and dental diseases are highly preventable if regular treatments are given to your pet.

Furthermore, adult dogs are also prone to chronic pain due to the onset of arthritis problems. They may experience pain due to joint disease and skin rashes or itchiness due to flea and tick bites. Regular joint supplements help control joint pain and further prevent signs of arthritis. Additionally, monthly flea and tick treatment such as Nexgard, Advantage, or Eliminall prevents itching, scratching, and rashes, as well as flea allergy dermatitis in pets.

Pet care for seniors

When pets enter the golden period, they expect more attention and love from you. The advancement in medicines for animal health has increased, which has had a great impact on the quality of life of older pets, improving their health. However, the increased shelf life has its own drawbacks. Extended lifespans have also paved the way for numerous health conditions in older pets.

During this stage, health conditions grow much faster and therefore more specific care needs to be created to provide the best care for your senior pet. At this stage they are very susceptible to osteoarthritis, kidney disease, heart disease, liver disease, cancer and diabetes.