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Dog Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms, Treatments, Causes

Heart disease may lead to congestive heart failure. That's when your dog's heart has trouble pumping blood to the rest of its body. Heart disease can affect one side of the heart or sometimes both sides. It can progress slowly and may take years to spot. Causes. Congenital means that the dog was born with a heart defect.