Post partum (after pregnancy) ailments

Continued

Milk fever
In high producing dairy cattle, this ailment is serious.  In dogs, when milk fever (or eclampsia as it is sometimes called) occurs, the animal can die within a day or two after the onset. Milk fever is associated with a low calcium level in the blood.  (It really is initially not a ‘fever’ at all; if anything, the body temperature may sometimes decrease).