It's possible that he ate something that's now caught in his throat or digestive tract. Whatever it is, get him to the vet.

Cat Worm Symptoms - Your I'm not an Idiot Guide to Recognizing Cat Worm Symptoms

Read this guide and your cat will thank you for recognizing cat worm symptoms before these parasites do her long term harm. There are several types of parasitic worms that can infest your cat like: lungworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms and cat heartworm. There's plenty of synthetic parasiticides on the market, but you can opt for a natural approach to treating cat worms.

Read this guide and your cat will thank you for recognizing cat worm symptoms before these parasites do her long term harm. There are several types of parasitic worms that can infest your cat like: lungworms, hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms and cat heartworm. There's plenty of synthetic parasiticides on the market, but you can opt for a natural approach to treating cat worms.

Some cat worm symptoms can be pretty darn obvious, like when kitty vomits an enormous load of half digested breakfast along with something that looks like short spaghetti. Chances are you're looking at roundworms.

Other times, the problems caused by cat worms aren't as obvious. Perhaps your cat is wheezing - you may think she has asthma or a cold. Every year veterinarians are presented with thousands of cats showing all the signs of a respiratory illness. In fact, a microscopic exam of your cat's feces may indicate the presence of lungworms in her respiratory tract. The presence of lungworms will cause her to exhibit symptoms similar to asthma, but the proper remedy is much different than the treatment for asthma.

If you just adopted a kitten or an adult cat, its a pretty sure bet she came pre-loaded with cat worms. If you haven't made it to the vet for a final diagnosis, monitor her stools in the litter box. A black, tarry or even bloody stool is a sure sign of a hookworm infection. Take her in to your vet for a reliable diagnosis.

Cats that have an advanced case of roundworms may exhibit cat worm symptoms including serious diarrhea, frequent vomiting or both. Blood may be present in the the diarrhea and vomit. The poor creature is trying to expel these bloodsuckers naturally. Unfortunately, the persistent diarrhea dehydrates her. When she vomits she ends up swallowing some of the regurgitated roundworms.

All cat worms are parasites; they suck blood. Cats and kittens are candidates for anemia. The most tragic health threat is an impacted intestinal tract - your kitten's intestines packed with a mass of roundworms. Young cats are particularly susceptible to an intestinal perforation when this mass moves about.

Tapeworms aren't as devastating to your cat's health as some of the other parasites. You can recognize these cat worm symptoms too. Take a look at her anal area. She's probably showing it to you 2 or 3 times a day during your petting sessions. Seize the moment. Do you see small, white, rice-like segments? Well, its not rice - its a segment of tapeworm.

A cat infected by a cat heartworm may be gagging, coughing, have difficult breathing or vomiting. Or she may show no signs of cat worms - she may suddenly drop dead.

So here's your "I'm Not An Idiot Guide To Recognizing To Recognizing Cat Worm Symptoms"

Your cat is exhibiting one or more of these symptoms...

1.  Coughing, wheezing or problems breathing;
2.  Vomiting a batch of white, short spaghetti-like     casings;
3.  Gagging;
4.  Frequent bouts of vomiting;
5.  Diarrhea;
6.  Black, tarry stools;
7.  White, rice-like casings sticking around her anal area

Its likely your vet will suggest a topical or oral synthetic treatment for purging cat worms. However, many cat owners are opting for more natural treatments using herbal remedies like Artemisia absinthinium (also called Wormwood). This herb is widely used in homeopathic practices to treat cat parasites. Consider it as a viable option to rid your cat's parasites and free her of debilitating cat worm symptoms.

About the Author

Kate Rieger has been owned by 15+ cats and is a champion of natural alternatives for healing cats with cat worm symptoms. Drop by and pick up a free copy of her eHandout '111 Things You Don't Know That Could Harm Your Cat'. You can find out more about natural remedies for cat health care too.

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if the link does not work, go to OrientalTrading.com
and type 'autograph dog' in the search box!

Most people don't stop to think about the food they are giving their dog. The colourful packs on the laden supermarket shelves are normally as far as people give dog food a thought. You may be one of them, but are now branching out and looking for something a bit healthier.

Believe me, the packs can look tempting and with smiling veterinarians and dog breeders on the cover, you're not that hard to convince.

But stop for a moment and consider a wild dog's diet. Dogs are naturally pack animals and so they hunt in packs. They can bring down a large animal, as large as a cow, with their combined efforts. Then they all gather round, with much growling and snarling and consume most of the carcass, bones and all. Probably the only parts left is the hide and hooves.

Whether or not you can accept this idea, that's how dogs evolved. And the wild dogs still manage very well. This is the most healthy dog food. There is nothing that can beat it.

Man, with his puny pseudo scientific ideas of improving on the natural diet of dogs is going down a dead end. You can't.

Period.

There is only one type of healthy dog food. And that is the one which so closely resembles a wild dog's diet, as to be virtually the same as far as health benefits are concerned.

Lets look at some of the differences between a wild dog's diet and commercial dog food, a diet most dogs exist on (I won't say live, as it''s hardly a life).

A wild diet, a healthy dog food, consists of:
raw food
lots of raw bones
internal organs are consumed, but these are scarce compared with the muscle meat
carbohydrates which are limited to the stomach contents, so is small in the overall content

A typical commercial dog food consists of:
cooked food (many vitamins, enzymes and other nutrients are destroyed by cooking)
the meat is of poor (often extremely poor) quality (humans get the good stuff)
carbohydrates, in particular sugar, are a major part of the food - it's cheap and bulks out the 'meat'
the food is fortified with strong preservatives (not allowed in human food for their dangerous impact on health) - DESPITE WHAT THE LABEL SAYS
to try to redress the nutritional imbalance, isolated and synthetic nutrients are added - nutrients which can't be properly absorbed and utilised when they are in isolation, or if they are synthetic

So in your search for a healthy dog food, keep firmly in mind the diet of a wild dog. It's OK to take your time to get used to the idea. If you find the idea repulsive, just go slowly. Try to replace one thing at a time. Just keep in mind that dogs have evolved over millions of years, on this diet. Humans have only been producing (poor quality) commercial dog food for a few decades.

If you don't like the idea of raw meat for your dog, that's your issue, not his.

I also suggest that you keep in mind the concept that most people are lured by price. With the best will in the world, if a commercial pet food manufacturer suddenly started to produce quality pet food, because it would be more expensive, do you think it would be a sell-out?

That would only be possible if people had already started to reject the current commercial dog food and were now looking for a healthy dog food, so were prepared to pay a little more.

However, if you make your own dog food, you won't need to find the extra cash. Not only is a homemade, healthy dog food economical to produce, it has an enormous impact on the health of your dog, often beyond your wildest dreams.

For a complimentary ebook on how to have a healthy dog, starting today, visit http://naturallyhealthydogs.com or http://www.bestdoghealth.blogspot.com

A surge in demand for office space augurs well for real estate sector. Also, opening of new offices means a revival of the economy — and the demand for houses as well,

The real estate market has shown a clear sign of revival following the formation of Congress-led UPA government with a clear majority at the Centre. Apart from the affordable housing sector, which has witnessed a surge in demand, office space too has registered fresh demand, which was almost dormant for last one year, ever since the global economy went into a tailspin.

Commenting on the latest biometrics of the real estate sector in the country, Anshuman Magazine of CB Richard Ellis (South Asia) said, "In the 1st quarter of 2009, confidence and sentiment was low in the real estate market. The formation of a new government has improved market sentiment, while the global economic decline appears to be bottoming out. This has resulted in an improvement in the velocity of office space off take, especially in the small to medium segments. This is further supported by a substantial decline in rentals in the past one year."

Surge in demand for office space is a good sign for the economy, and also for the real estate sector. The opening of new offices means investment is likely to pick up, which will help revive the economy. At the same time, it also leads to creation of new jobs, which drives the demand for residential real estate. Normally, the demand for residential space increases by a factor of ten to that of office space.

Because of tough market conditions, coupled with a global slowdown, investments in the economy got badly hit. This resulted in a slowdown in demand for office space all of a sudden, in the last one year. But, the fresh supply of office space continued as buildings launched earlier to meet the expected strong demand for office space were completed during the period, even as the global economy was facing what may be billed as the second worst recession in the last hundred years.

This put pressure on rentals and capital value of office space in the country. In fact, this led to correction in rental rates and brought them down, closer to a more realistic level. CBRE report on office space said rentals in the secondary business district (SBD) of Nehru Place came down to more realistic levels with a correction of around 11% over the last quarter, to Rs 160 per sq ft per month. Saket, another emerging market in the NCR, received minimal interest from the prospective office space occupiers. But as a huge supply of office space deluged markets in the last three months, the vacancy level in Saket rose to 35% and rental values corrected by around 22%, to Rs 140 per sq ft per month, over that in January-March 2009 quarter.

At Jasola, another promising SBD in the NCR, rental values fell by around 20%, to Rs 110 per sq ft per month due to a huge supply - 1.3 million sq ft during the period. Jasola is likely to benefit from a proposed fivestar hotel, multi-level parking facility and Metro-connectivity.

However, rentals in Gurgaon have not declined much in the last three months as they had already fallen substantially in the second half of 2008. In fact, corrections in the rentals have also helped in reviving demand for office space. The report says Gurgaon witnessed an increase in the transaction activity, assisted by attractive leasing packages offered by most developers. Companies, the report says, which had postponed their expansion/relocation decisions due to negative sentiment are now ready to take advantage of the softened market and the options available for a phased take-up.

The report says Noida office market suffered heavily as rentals fell by 21%, to Rs 30 per sq ft per month, due to high vacancy levels at around 25-30%. In fact, in the last one year, rentals in Noida dipped by almost 33%.

However, the positive aspect to all this is that leasing volume has increased by 3-4% in the NCR during the second quarter of 2009. The report says the increasing levels of corporate confidence should help this region and the momentum should be maintained in the second half of the year. However, rentals in the commercial space market will continue to face challenges due to a large supply of new space, and till the time that the global economy gets back onto the path of recovery, opines Magazine. As rental values declined, the capital value of the property also suffered. The fall in the capital values, however, has encouraged an increasing number of companies to explore and evaluate opportunities for an outright buy-out rather than leasing the required space. Though there is an improved level of activity in the sector, the markets are expected to remain soft in the short to medium term.

Courtesy:- TOI dt:- 18-07-09