Dog Urinating Frequently? 5 Possible Causes and What You Can Do About It

Are you frustrated with your Dog urinating frequently and in the most inappropriate places? There are a variety of factors that could be causing your Dog's frequent urination. The first important step is to take your Dog to a veterinarian and get a proper diagnosis. The condition can become life-threatening if you don't start treatment in time. Here are 5 possible reasons why your dog is urinating frequently and what you can do to stop it.

1. If you notice your dog urinating excessively, he could be ill and extreme thirst may be the first symptom you notice. Dogs that drink abnormally large amounts of water suffer from what is known as polydipsia. The cause could be a serious disease such as a pituitary tumor, high blood cortisol, diabetes insipidus, liver disease, central diabetes, or Cushing's disease. Cushing's disease increases the production of cortisol, hence leading to hormonal imbalance and excessive urination. It is important to report any increases in your dog's water consumption to your veterinarian and have your vet do blood tests and other examinations immediately.

2. Old age can also be the cause of your dog urinating frequently. As dogs age, their sphincter loosens and it gets harder for them to hold in urine. There are medications that your dog can take to tighten his sphincter but they are not without their significant side effects. Instead, try giving your dog a homeopathic remedy that promotes bladder health and a healthy flow of urine.

3. Diet may be the cause of the symptom of your dog urinating excessively. If your dog is eating a diet high in salt that may be the reason why he is urinating so frequently. To avoid this problem, make sure to feed your dog plenty of raw food rich in minerals like magnesium, aluminum, and phosphate. Drinking plenty of fresh, filtered water is also important.

4. The symptoms your dog is experiencing may stem from behavioral issues such as separation anxiety or territorial marking. A dog urinating frequently needs training if these behavioral issues are the underlying cause. Dogs that bond well with their owners may get distressed when their owner is gone and urinate frequently in different, inappropriate locations of the house. You can prevent this behavior by leaving your dog chew toys to play with, taking him out on frequent walks prior to your departure to tire him out, or leave the TV on to distract him while you are out. Marking happens when your dog urinates on objects in the home as a result of territorial instincts. It is most common among unneutered male dogs. To stop it from happening, neuter your dog and keep him away from the windows so he can't see passerby.

5. Urinary tract and bladder infections caused by E. coli bacteria are most likely the cause of your dog urinating excessively. The infection can travel up to your dog's kidneys and become fatal if left untreated. For this reason it is important to treat this condition early. Your veterinarian can do a pee test to determine whether a bacterial infection is the cause. If it is, he will probably recommend treatment with antibiotics but you should weigh your treatment options carefully prior to giving your dog drugs. The problem with antibiotics is that they only suppress the symptoms and do not treat the underlying cause of the problem. Furthermore, medication is known to aggravate UTIs. If you want to treat the problem naturally and get long term results, give your dog a homeopathic remedy.

Your next step? Take this information and find out what could be the cause of your dog urinating frequently. The problem can be easily remedied if you address the underlying problems. Whether the cause is a tumor, bacterial infection, diabetes, or other disease, homeopathic treatment can help. Homeopathic treatment will maintain a healthy bladder, a healthy pituitary gland, a healthy flow of urine, and a strong immune system. It will help your dog achieve permanent recovery and overall good health and unlike drugs, it is 100% safe.

Small Business Failures - Causes and Prevention Tips

Every year, more and more entrepreneurs experience small business failures. The reasons behind these seemingly sudden deaths vary. However, these causes are avoidable if you know how. As early as now, you can take measures to prevent your business from dying on you.

Read on to learn the causes of small business failures, and how to prevent them.

Cause # 1: Poor Management

One of the major reasons for small business failures is poor management. I've heard so many stories about entrepreneurs being too laid-back that they succumb to mediocre management.

A word of advice: Small businesses may be easier to manage than large multi-national companies, but that doesn't mean they don't need your attention any less.

When you let your guard down, that's when you start missing some of the most crucial details. Customer service disappoints... Your own employees steal from you... Overall quality simply isn't worth it anymore. The best thing to do here is to remain dedicated to your work. Have every minor detail go through you first.

Cause # 2: Poor Location

Starting a business isn't just about having the capital to set it up. It's also about knowing where to put it up. Lack of careful planning leads to small business failures. For example, you can't exactly start an ice cream business in a place that is always cold and stormy, or in a place where no one eats ice cream at all.

In order to avoid wasting time and money, make sure you conduct a serious study on the nature of your business and where it would most likely thrive. Conduct a feasibility study or a survey. Do everything you can to prepare yourself before the business actually materializes.

Cause # 3: Poor Marketing

Build it and they will come. Yeah right; if it's only that easy. But you can't just start a business and expect people to know what it's all about.

Unless you practice your marketing chops or at least generate a bit of buzz, don't expect to be flooded by customers. In fact, don't expect to have any customers at all. At most, all you'll have is a curious bystander or two. Even word-of-mouth requires you to do something to get people to talk.

Every business has a different gimmick to get people to come to them. The most reliable would be to advertise in the local newspaper or to give out flyers in the street. Others like to play loud, catchy music to get people to notice them.

With these tips, you don't need to fear small business failures. Yours will go on living and growing for a long time to come.

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The Dinosaur Extinction, Probable Causes

It is generally believed that 65 million years ago the dinosaurs became extinct when a massive comet or asteroid collided with the earth, thus putting an end to one of the most successful orders of life that ever existed on planet Earth.

Scientific research shows that many and varied species of dinosaurs had lived and died beginning about 230 million years ago, during the geologic period of earth's history known as the Triassic, and continuing on throughout the following Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, a time-span of about 165 million years.

Dinosaurs were the dominant land animals of their time, populating many regions of the earth, providing today, a worldwide source of their fossil remains. It is acknowledged that although the dinosaurs are extinct, there is a close anatomical relationship between birds and dinosaurs, which supports the opinion of many paleontologists that birds may have evolved from dinosaurs, perhaps from the small dinosaurs of the late Jurassic. Possible evidence of this includes the three-toed feet and the air filled bones and the wishbones found in the many thousands of today's bird species.

The dinosaurs appeared, evolved, and eventually disappeared millions of years before human beings appeared on earth. Huge fossilized dinosaur bones have been discovered and excavated, providing dramatic displays, when reassembled, for museums. And dinosaurs are frequently depicted as being massive in size, bigger that elephants and often as ferocious meat eaters, such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex may have been. But in reality they were an extremely varied group of creatures with species of many sizes some as small as the common Dogs kept as pets today.

The cause of their extinction has long been a mystery and the subject of conjecture and debate, with the two main currently popular theories centered around some form of catastrophe to account for their apparently rather sudden disappearance, sudden in geological terms perhaps but not actually in an instant. In fact it is possible that long before the time-line of 65 million years ago there had already been a gradual and significant dying out of many dinosaur species and the final catastrophic event could merely have delivered the final blow.

The catastrophes, were they earthly or from outer space?

Was it the impact of a solar system body from outer space or extensive volcanic outpourings on earth over millions of years that caused the demise of the dinosaurs? Actually, we have evidence of both occurring in that time period but as yet there is not a consensus among the scientific community that confirms one or the other, or both, as the cause of the extinction, although currently, most support appears to be on the side of the impact theory.

One likely catastrophic event may have been the impact of a large asteroid or comet from outer space, where many such objects constantly revolve in the solar system and occasionally enter a collision path with the earth or other planets. And supporters of this argument have found the evidence and extent of such an extra-terrestrial body in the impact crater, known as the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

But long before the impact crater was searched for and finally found, Walter Alvarez, an American geologist, working in Gubbio, Italy, identified an unexpected mineral in the rocks there, called iridium. Iridium, when found in the earth's surface rocks, usually occurs as only a minute percentage of the total material in situ but in the case of the Gubbio iridium, where it existed between the boundary layers of the underlying Cretaceous and overlying Tertiary rocks, it was in much greater percentages than normal. The 65 million year old boundary layer marks the close of the age of the dinosaurs - and of a multitude of extinctions of other land and sea creatures, a time often referred to as "the Great Dying".

It was known that concentrations of iridium similar to those occurring at Gubbio were common in meteorites arriving on earth from outer space. Based on this, Walter Alvarez, together with his colleagues and including his distinguished Nobel prize-winning father, Luis Alvarez, suggested this was evidence that firmly established that an asteroid or comet had impacted the earth and created the conditions that resulted in the demise of the dinosaurs and other fauna and flora that disappeared from the earth 65 million years ago.

With the subsequent finding and dating of the Chicxulub Crater, mentioned above, the culprit was identified in the opinion of the impact supporters.

But there are dissenting voices. Paleontologist Gerta Keller of Princeton University has carried out extensive fieldwork at Chicxulub together with a team of other distinguished scientists and claims that their investigations show that the age of the crater is 300,000 years older than the accepted extinction event and that there is no evidence whatsoever of extinction of life forms during that following 300,000 years. Keller is also a supporter of the volcanic outpourings, mentioned below, as a major contributing cause of the mass extinction.

But, in turn, many scientists disagree with Keller's analysis, contending that the 10 feet of material representing the 300,000 years without extinct life, that they claim is misleading her, was caused by tsunami activity that occurred as a result of the impact.

Whoever is right, the iridium anomaly points to an impact having occurred so if it wasn't Chicxulub what was it? There are several other major impact sites that are now known to be of the right age, so it is possible that there were a series of associated impact events, perhaps all being fragments of a much larger celestial body that may have broken apart through its own collision in space. To support this theory, there are craters in the Ukraine, in the North Sea, and a very large possible crater, yet to be absolutely confirmed as such, existing off the west coast of India. And there could have been other craters now erased by erosion or even by the gradually moving continental land masses as they react to the tectonic forces that slowly repositions portions of the surface of the earth's crust.

To add to the chain of coinciding events, it is possible that the crater off the coast of India, called the Shiva Crater, had a double effect, allied to the two main theories for the extinctions. In one case as an impact event similar to Chicxulub and in the second case as a major contributing cause worsening the already occurring volcanic events of the Deccan Traps of what is now India, mentioned below.

Recently, professor Sankar Chatterjee of the University of Texas, announced at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, research findings and a theory regarding the Shiva Crater, the world's largest known crater.

The new theory suggests that the source of the 25 mile wide Shiva Crater, a meteorite, came to earth 300,000 years after the Chicxulub crater was formed - is this also a confirmation of Gerta Keller's work?

Volcanic outpourings of the Deccan Traps of India

Another possible cause of the extinctions of the Great Dying are the million years of constant outpouring of volcanic lavas that is known to have occurred before and during the time of the extinctions. These are known as the Deccan Traps. Such extreme volcanic activity would have had dire climatic consequences world wide, sufficient to have caused the extinction of not only the dinosaurs but the multitude of species that are known to have become extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs. The loss of plants that would have also occurred due to the climate disruptions would have been disastrous for the many dinosaur species that were vegetarians.

There have been several similar mass extinctions over the earth's long history, and researchers say that most of those were accompanied by long periods of volcanic activity the same as that of the Deccan Traps of India. The volcanism that formed the Deccan Traps being considered as the cause of the mass extinctions has great support among those working in the field. In their opinion, their own extensive investigations provide convincing evidence in support of the volcanism theory and they believe that the mass extinction would have occurred because of them even if the impacts had not also happened during that time.

So opinions remain divided, while Walter Alvarez and others retain their views that Chicxulub is the culprit, other geologists believe otherwise, suggesting a hypothesis linking other evidence including climate change, significant volcanic eruptions or perhaps a combination of all of them that occurred 65 million years ago.

But questions remain to be answered. For instance, why did some species of creatures, such as crocodiles, frogs, and birds, survive while others did not?

Perhaps not all dinosaurs became extinct

It seems that some dinosaur species may have outlived the Great Dying. That is according to a May 1, 2009 report in The National Geographic News describing findings and conclusions of James Fasset, a scientist from the US Geological Survey in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Fasset's discoveries in the Western United States convince him that some dinosaur species survived beyond the mass extinction for as long as half a million years and the evidence to support that, he believes, is unequivocal.

However, while not ruling out the possibility, other paleontologists are not yet ready to accept Fasset's evidence and opinions.

Research continues and we shall await results with interest.

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