Dog Health Insurance

Although it may seem like your dog has a fairly easy life, canines have just as many problems with blood pressure as we humans! Alright, so perhaps that’s not stricly true, but our lifestyles are so horrifically unnatural that we probably bring it upon ourselves. You don’t see Alsations sitting in Starbucks at 05:30, knocking back triple espressos to hit deadlines!

You probably won’t have experienced a dog blood pressure check in any of your pet’s annual standard checkups unless your pet has suffered from some kind of heart or kidney failure. This is because, although ‘normal’ readings for dog blood pressure are about 160-180/100, it is actually very hard to make accurate judgements, due to the wide range of breeds with different normal pressures. When readings are taken, they are done so using one of two methods; the cuff (like we get), or the use of doppler technology. In the latter method, the dog’s hair actually has to be shaven – another reason it’s not commonplace.

If high blood pressure is diagnosed, treatment normally consists of medication, just like in humans. Some owners prefer to take a more ‘naturalistic’ approach (despite the fact that medicines are made from natural sources) and feed their pets a variety of ingredients to help; Calcium fluoride, Kalium phosphate and Hawthorne, for example.

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