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DOG FIT by PreThis^® Magazine

Your online magazine on dog health, grooming, training and nutrition

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Everyday, Travel & Fun
Your dog in winter: what’s good for him now

Many dogs love snow, but winter also brings cold, de-icing salt and dark walks. Here you’ll learn what to look out for with your dog in winter and when it becomes dangerous.
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Parasites & Infections
Salmonella in dogs: signs, infection and hygiene

Salmonella rarely makes dogs ill, but many carry it unnoticed and can pass it on to people. Here you’ll learn how to recognise an infection, what role raw food plays and which hygiene measures protect you and your family.
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Joints & Bones
CDDY in dogs: what chondrodystrophy means for the back and discs

Short legs, a long back and a higher risk for the discs: CDDY is often behind it. Here you’ll learn what the abbreviation means, which breeds carry it, what a genetic test tells you and how to protect your dog in everyday life.
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Training & Behaviour
New Year’s Eve with your dog: how to avoid stress

For many dogs, New Year’s Eve is the worst night of the year. Here you’ll learn how to prepare your dog weeks in advance, what helps on the evening itself and when support from the vet makes sense.
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Joints & Bones
Radius curvus syndrome in dogs: causes, signs and treatment

Does your young dog’s foreleg look crooked, with the paw pointing outwards? Radius curvus syndrome may be behind it. Here you’ll learn how it develops, how to recognise it and why timing makes such a difference.
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Nutrition
Why is chocolate toxic for dogs?

During Advent there is chocolate everywhere, and dogs find it. Here you’ll learn why chocolate is toxic for dogs, which types are especially dangerous and what to do if your dog has eaten some.
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Health & Illnesses
Corneal ulcer in dogs: signs, causes and treatment

Is your dog squinting with one eye, is it watering and is he rubbing it with his paw? A corneal ulcer may be behind it. Here you’ll learn what it is, why you should act quickly and how treatment works.
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Health & Illnesses
Old dog losing weight despite eating: causes and what you can do

The bowl is empty, yet your old dog keeps getting thinner. You should take that seriously. Here you’ll learn what can be behind it, what to look out for and how to support your senior dog.
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Nutrition
Oh, you chubby dog! Overweight in dogs

Oh, you chubby dog: more and more dogs are overweight. Even if a “little chubby one” sometimes looks cute, the excess weight is nevertheless often a serious health problem for the affected dog. That is why the motto is: recognise the causes, resolve the problems and make sure that the dog gets the healthy and active life it deserves...
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Dog Breeds
Breed Profile: Shar Pei

The Shar Pei, or wrinkle dog, is a truly unique sight: an imposing body covered in bulging wrinkles. For a long time the old Chinese dog breed was a real rarity on our streets, but nowadays the wrinkly Asian is winning more and more friends in the Western world too...
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Dog Breeds
Breed portrait: Weimaraner

Fascinating beauty with special requirements. Probably no other breed has more potential to become a fashionable dog: the mere sight of a Weimaraner with its silvery, gleaming coat, its supple movements, its proud bearing and its noble, aloof expression melts many a heart...
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Good to Know
The sense and nonsense of dog clothing

Especially when it is cold outside, you see them more and more often: dogs in little coats. Various cuts and purposes, from the functional raincoat through to the complete dog outfit with matching accessories – the market has almost everything on offer to dress dogs of every size...
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Parasites & Infections
Leishmaniasis – The Dog Disease in Focus

It sounds like a scene from a horror film: tiny little parasites that literally devour their host from the inside out, without the host being able to stop the little pests...
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Dog Breeds
Breed portrait: Rhodesian Ridgeback

Lion hunter in the living room? It is actually no wonder that the Rhodesian Ridgeback is becoming ever more popular: the large, red-brown dogs with the characteristic ridge of fur on their back simply look incredibly majestic, so that it is hard to resist their fascination...
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Dog Breeds
Breed profile: Cane Corso Italiano

Fascinating mountains of muscle or a potential danger? While on the one hand the tiniest of dogs are highly sought after, there are also more and more people who warm to the complete opposite: the massive, well-muscled molosser breeds have their very own circle of admirers. And one breed that is rather new in this country is becoming ever more popular: the Cane Corso Italiano...
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Good to Know
Dogs from abroad part 2: animal welfare or a profitable business?

When you are looking for a dog, sooner or later they inevitably turn up: dogs from abroad, gazing at you loyally and pitifully from some filthy, barred shelter. And the animal welfare associations that place dogs from abroad also speak in heart-softening words of the terrible conditions on site...
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Good to Know
Dogs from Abroad Part 1: Adopting a Dog

Whether in the classifieds or in animal welfare: anyone who wants to get a dog will inevitably come across dogs from abroad which, some rescued from catastrophic circumstances, are now waiting for a warm basket in a new home...
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Parasites & Infections
Giardia – a close look at the canine disease

When dog owners get talking about parasites, it is usually about fleas and lice and sometimes also ticks...
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Dog Breeds
Breed Profile: Miniature Pinscher

The Miniature Pinscher is not a dwarf, but a small dog with the proportions of a large one. A family and working dog in pocket format, suited to almost all dog sports, with a special talent for agility and trick training...
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Dog Breeds
Breed Profile: Akita Inu

The Akita is a strikingly beautiful, imposing dog that radiates self-confidence and dignity. The "dog of Akita" is one of the ancient Japanese breeds, whose appearance recalls both Nordic dogs and spitz breeds, yet which possesses a very distinctive character...
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