The Bernese Mountain Dog is a relatively good working dog, but its life expectancy is relatively short in the world dog breed, there are many reasons for its short life expectancy, but the main reason is that some diseases have shortened its life expectancy, let’s take a look at what common diseases the Bernese Mountain Dog has. Rabies: Rabies is a very serious acute infectious disease, the death rate is up to 100%, there is no drug can be cured, rabies can only be prevented by rabies vaccination, each injection of rabies vaccine immunization period of up to one year, so every year will need to go again to inject rabies vaccine. Canine micro virus disease: canine micro virus disease is infected by the feces, urine, saliva and other infectious diseases of canine animals, mainly affecting puppies. This disease is easily misdiagnosed as enteritis, dysentery, pneumonia and other diseases, the mortality rate of sick dogs is also up to ten to fifty percent. If a sick dog is brought to the veterinary hospital for symptomatic treatment in a timely manner, a canine microvirus vaccination or a five-way vaccination before the onset of the disease is the best way to prevent it. Canine distemper: Canine distemper is an acute infectious disease caused by a virus, mainly affecting 3-12 months old puppies, sick dogs mainly manifest as loss of appetite, vomiting, lethargy, chills, cough, high fever, etc. The disease occurs in the cold season October-April, the death rate is very high, treatment of the disease can be injected anacin, intramuscular penicillin or oral sulfonamides. Prevention of this disease weaned puppies can be injected with five vaccines. Four, roundworm disease: roundworm disease is a very widely spread intestinal parasitic disease, the main harm is the normal development of puppies and young dogs, sick dogs will have a loss of appetite, vomiting, digestive disorders and other phenomena, the cause of roundworm disease is to eat infectious eggs, these eggs are mainly developed by the dog’s feces, want to prevent roundworm disease need to promptly remove feces and fermentation treatment, improve the dog’s life Environmental hygiene. Five, gastroenteritis: gastroenteritis is mainly caused by improper diet, such as feeding some spoiled, rotten or indigestible food to the dog to eat caused by the sick dog will appear indigestion, appetite reduction and other symptoms later will show walking instability, occasionally discharge foul-smelling blood stool, body temperature rise and other symptoms, and finally will lead to serious dehydration and endanger the life of dogs. So usually we should be reasonable dog feeding, to ensure that the dog nutrition balance, do not feed spoiled, corrupt food to the dog.
