Why does my cat keeping opening her mouth?
There are two reasons she does it. One is to enhance her sense of smell. Try it yourself sometime. The other is temperature control. Next time you get an ice cream headache, you'll get over it quicker if you open your mouth to breathe in warm air. If she shows signs of respiratory distress such as skin color change or grasping, see your vet ASAP.
Which three animals breathe through their lungs, skin, and gills?
There are many amphibians that breath through their lungs, skin and gills. Many of them are amphibians. However, there are a large number of fish that also breath through skin, gills and lung-analogues.It is often advantageous to ‘exhale’ through the skin and ‘inhale’ through lungs and gills. This is because carbon dioxide is much more soluble in water than oxygen. So carbon dioxide diffuses through skin very quickly in scaleless, mucous covered animal. However, oxygen needs to be absorbed through highly vascularized membranes like in lungs and gills.I just know three animal types the top of my head. However, there are actually a lot more.The Hell-bender or Snot Otter is a species of salamander that absorbs oxygen with its gills while underwater, sometimes comes to the surface to inhale through it lungs, and releases carbon dioxide through its skin underwater.2. The cat fish is a family of fish without scales. The are hundreds of species in the cat fish family, so you can chose any three species that you like as examples. A catfish has an open air bladder analogous to lungs. So the catfish can breathe through its skin, its air bladder and its gills depending on circumstances.3. The electric eel is a very odd species of fish. It is famous for its electrical powers but has some other highly interesting features. Its skin is covered with mucous. It has a highly vascularized pharynx (cheek) that is analogous to a lung. It has gills that are ALMOST not functioning although they still work (sort of).The electric eel is an obligatory air breather. It gets most of its oxygen by inhaling on the surface. The oxygen is absorbed through the vascularized cheek. However, it can exhale carbon dioxide through its lungs. Underwater, it absorbs some oxygen and emits carbon dioxide through its almost vestigial gills.I watched a young electric eel swimming in a huge tank. It like to lie on the bottom for periods of up to 10 minutes. Every ten minutes it would swim to the surface, sip some air and then go back to the bottom.
My cat is having breathing problems, should I put a plastic bag over his head?
Don't put a bag over your cats head. Take the poor thing to the vet. And stop putting plastic bags over your head. You might kill yourself. My friend in highschool died that way.
Help my cat got to my crested gecko?!?!!!?
I just got home from watching 4th of july fireworks & found my baby crested gecko on the floor. He dropped his tail & his tummy is a little ripped, like his skin :( he is still breathing & is starting to move. Thisis my first reptile & have only had him 6 months I am so sad i feel bad the poor thing my cat has never tried to get him. I'm not sure what to do I can't even find his dropped tail!! & his ripped skin what do I do? Will his skin grow back? Please help im really upset :'( his head & front legs move but he hasnt moved his back legs they look stiff idk :( help :(
Slight whistle when leopard gecko breathes?
Oliver- That was rude, and I care for my pets more than most people would. My local vets see mostly cats and dogs, only one will see my leo. I don't know if I trust that vet, because ive never used that vet, and they don't commonly see these types of animals. I don't want to see someone inexperienced and risk giving him wrong medicine.
Rapid Breathing In My 5-Month-Old Kitten...?
as though he was hyperventilating, if one can imagine it within the mind as better visualization/understanding. Anyhow, I'd thought that perhaps he was merely overheated, so in addition to putting more water for him (which he didn't touch/want), I'd rested a moist towel upon him to help cool him down. And while he'd stayed beneath it for a little bit, his breathing did not relax, and he'd eventually left it (the towel). So now, he is once more back upon the couch and asleep, but, as I'd said, still breathing rapidly. At first, I'd thought perhaps tachypnea or asthma, it might be? But mainly because he is very slightly overweight (just a tiny bit), and when I'd leaned forward to listen to his inhales/exhales, it was a bit "heavy" and/or wheezy (which he sometimes does while sleeping, but that is more like a snore, again, due to his weight, I'm imagining). He is not my first animal/pet, and certainly not my first cat (he's number 7); however, he is the first indoor cat and kitten we
Labored breathing in elderly cat?
This happened to my cat at 15 as she used to share her bed with me and i woke up in the middle of the night by her heavy breathing and her tongue was hanging out too, and she had lost a lot of weight as well the vet diagnosed kidney failure and it was to late to start treatment and told me he would suggest putting her to sleep, but i couldn't accept if of course as any pet owner it came as a total shock to me as she seemed well until that moment, he told me to take her home for the night to say goodbye properly, and that night she had a fit in my arms and started walking in to walls i took her to the vet the next day knowing what i was facing she had to be put to sleep, this doesn't mean yours will its just she is showing the exact symptoms as mine was. my thoughts are with you at this difficult time.