Should You Let Your Dog Swim at the Beach? A Vet Weighs In originally appeared on Parade Pets.

As summertime approaches for schools in Jacksonville, temperatures are rising to record-breaking highs. How to stay protected ...

Using high frequency response instrumentation in dogs, intravascular sound has been compared with pressure and flow events throughout the cardiac cycle. (1) The first component of the first heart ...

Here’s how it works. For many of us, it’s not our favorite dog behavior, but barking is very common among our canine companions. It’s totally natural and normal, and it’s not something we can ...

Heart sound 1 (S1) is the normal systolic heart sound. It is the first heart sound and is the "lubb" sound in lubb-dupp. The S1 sound is made when the mitral and tricuspid valves close, preventing ...

Summary: Dogs and their owners show synchronized heart rate variability (HRV), reflecting shared emotional states during relaxed interactions, a new study reveals. Researchers observed that both heart ...

1 "As far as we're aware, there are no existing databases of heart sounds in dogs, which is why we started out with a database of heart sounds in humans," Anurag Agarwal, PhD, head of the study, said ...

Huxley, a healthy volunteer Havanese, undergoes a physical examination at the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital, Cambridge. Credit: Jacqueline Garget. Researchers at the University of Cambridge ...

but obviously dogs can’t communicate in the same way that humans can, so it’s up to primary care vets to detect heart disease early enough so it can be treated.” “As far as we’re aware, there are no ...

He added: "As far as we’re aware, there are no existing databases of heart sounds in dogs, which is why we started out with a database of heart sounds in humans. "Mammalian hearts are fairly ...

“The recordings in humans and dogs showed a noticeable similarity, largely due to the comparable structure of their hearts. However, making a good quality heart sound recording from a dog can be ...