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November 1, 2010

Electric discharge in animals, what to do?

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, cat, dog, electric discharge, what to do — Cynara @ 4:35 pm

The electric discharge usually happens in nestlings, because they chew any thing, including electric threads and of telephone.

The most serious electric discharges can provoke convulsions or to stop the heart, and the damages can be insidious, because they appear slowly, sometimes taking to an irregular heart beat or difficulties in the breathing, many days after the accident.

Most of the shocks that happen in a domestic atmosphere is very far away from that gravity. The animals will be with burns in the lips, in the corners of the mouth or in the language, then see what to do:

1 – turn off the energy – the electric current usually provokes muscular spasms, turning impossible that the animals release the thread that are biting.

2 – if he is with convulsion covers his head with a dark towel to protect him of the light and of the noise, that can help for the convulsion to finish faster.

3 - maintain the animal quiet – the stress does with he needs more oxygen and him can have difficulty to breathe.

4 - give ice for him – the ice can relieve the pain of burns in the mouth, you can put the ice in the water to drink.

5 - treat the burns – burns in the mouth can take some time to heal, verify if they are clean and gown the foods in the blender to facilitate the feeding.

Vet Therapy – Dr. Cynara Campanati

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October 25, 2010

Cares with ticks

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, care, disease, dog, remove ticks, ticks — Cynara @ 9:29 am

The ticks affect the dogs much more than the cats because these tend to remove them when they clean, unless they don’t get to reach them. The ticks stay in the skin of the animal per days, while they suck his blood.

In the body of the animal, the parts with few hair and hard of reaching, as the ears, the armpits and among the fingers, are the favorite objectives of the ticks, but they can be found in any other place. Most of the time, the animal not even it will feel the bite, they hardly ever infect.

The ticks carry their minuscule own parasites (protozoa and bacteria), that can cause very serious diseases in animals and human beings, once they penetrate in the sanguine current.

It is for that is so important to remove the ticks as soon as possible. The retreat of the tick can be made with the topical application of ticks´s products or manually. In the manual retreat, don’t use the fingers to remove him, use a tweezers with round tips. Put discards gloves and be careful for not squeezing the body of the tick when it removes him, so that there is not contamination. Catch the very close body to the skin and the buccal pieces of the tick and pull him outside, in line straight, slow and smoothly, that will do with that the buccal pieces come unfastened more easily.

Don’t worry the head to come unfastened and to be file in the skin, that hardly ever happens, but if it happens, it should not cause problems for most of the animals.

Play the tick in a jug with alcohol, or inside of the toilet and give discharge.

Wash the place of the bite with antiseptic soap liquid. Apply an antibiotic ointment.

Vet Therapy – Dr. Cynara Campanati

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October 18, 2010

Human medicines: to use or not to use?

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, concentrations, dangerous, formulas, human, medicine — Cynara @ 9:42 am

The veterinary medicines, servants for dogs and cats, act with a lot of speed. Usually they have flavors that help to be swallowed with more easiness and their formulas come in several concentrations, so that they can satisfy as much the needs of nestlings as of adults and small and big loads.

Some human medicines are dangerous when administered in animals. However, as many human medicines contain the same active ingredients of the versions for animals, a lot of times you can relieve the symptoms of the animal with a ready service, but it is necessary to know which medicines to use and which the dosage.

Hardly ever the animals should receive the same dosage that a person. Their organisms work in way different from the one of the humans and them don’t metabolize drugs in the same way. The dose for animals is based usually in their corporal weight, therefore it is necessary to know as they weigh for then can medicate them. The medicines liquids are easier to adjust the dose.

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October 11, 2010

What is and how to avoid the rabies

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, cats, dogs, prevent, rabies, symptoms, vaccination — Cynara @ 11:06 am

Do you really know rabies is? Do you know like it is transmitted? Which the symptoms?

The rabies is a acute infectious disease that attacks the mammals (man and animals), caused by a virus that multiplies and spreads (outlying nerves) until the central nervous system, from where passes for the glands salivate, in which also multiplies.

The form more common of transmission it is through the contact with the saliva of the stricken animal, be through bite or lambida. The scratches also have potential of contamination, due to the intense salivation of the sick animals.

The infection source is the animal infected with the virus of rabies. In urban areas, it is mainly the dog (almost 85% of the cases) following for the cats. In rural areas, besides the dogs and cats, bats, monkeys, bovine, equine, bovid, ovinos. The wild animals are the natural reservoirs for domestic animals.

The transmission feels before the emergence of the symptoms and during the period of the disease. In the dog and in the cat this period begins from 5 to 3 days before the emergence of the symptoms.

In the animals the disease present 2 forms: the furious and the paralytic. The furious is characterized by inquietude, tendency to the attack, anorexia, later coma and death. In the paralytic the animal tends isolates and to hide at dark places, it presents paralysis in the back paws that it takes the death.

To prevent it is necessary the annual vaccination. With the lack of the vaccine, take some cares: don’t leave your animal to have contact with unknown animals and don’t leave him free in the street.

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September 30, 2010

Aggression in dogs and cats

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: aggression, aggressive, animals, cats, causes, dogs — Cynara @ 9:40 am

By definition, the aggression is a threat or harmful action driven somebody else. Numerous identified functional types exist. They usually relapse in one of two classes: offensive aggression or defensive aggression.

The offensive aggression is an attempt no provoked of getting some advantage at the expense of somebody else and it includes social domination. Aggression among males, among females and predatory.

The defensive aggression is exercised by a victim towards other individual, noticed as an abetter or threatens and it includes aggression induced by fear, conflict aggression, defense territorial, protecting, doctor (pain) and maternal.

• the aggression can be an abnormal answer, given him object of the situation.

• can be influenced by the genetics, experience, or, what is more probable, to be consequence of a combination of both.

• can be a manifestation of an organic abnormality.

Factors that contribute to the problem:

• Lack of appropriate socialization

• Experience negative, traumatic

• to be chained

• No castrated

• training for aggression

• aggressive Lineage

• Any condition that causes pain, discomfort, irritability

• Any condition that affects the neurological function

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September 27, 2010

The adventures of Angel: Packed

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: adventures, angel, cat, stories — Cynara @ 8:00 am

One more day began and as always a lot of things and places to explore. Although I already makes a long time that I live here, the innovations don’t end…

Bags, boxes, plants, new things arrive everyday, that is very nice…
Let me see what have today… a box… I adore boxes. What does have inside it?… Oops. It is a little tight, but with way I get… I entered, I knew that it would get.

I will scratch her… ah that pleasant…

Wait for the one there what is happening? Where they are taking me? It is closed, I don’t get to leave… Hi! Anybody there? I am arrested… here, inside of the box… somebody answers…

Whew! Did I get to open her, but is where? Here it is not my house. Where I was taken? Will it be that we moved again? It is not possible…

- Hey! You there, where am I?
- Hey buddy,are you lost?
- I don’t know, was I home and now I am here… what place is that?
- Here it is the bus station.
- What is a bus station?
- It is the place the where the people go and come and always surplus a lot of food.
- Do you live here?
- Bddy, you don’t know about anything. We lived in the streets and where has food we are.
- Food would be good, I am hungry. Which cat food do you eat?
- Did you go mad? We will turn the garbage and see what has. Which is your name?
- Angel. And yours?
- I´m Rizo.
- I think I cannot eat that, Rizo.
- There buddy, we have to leave. The dogs are coming.
- Hey! Wait there, as I do to go home?
- Run…

I ran more than was able to, but I didn’t go very far, I am not used to such intense exercises. Were my legs arrested, didn’t I get to stretch out them completely… there my God the dog is approaching… is he going to catch me, my heart is shot and don’t I get more to run, what will belong to me?
I need to stop…

- No, please, gentleman dog, don’t eat me, please… please… please…

Where am I? What did happen? Will it be that I died? That tight little place! Oops, I am again inside of that box, but, wait there, I am home! Eh,eh, eh… I was sleeping, it was everything a dream…

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September 23, 2010

Ski stuck in a spin and so clean

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: cat, full wash cycle, kitten, soaking — Cynara @ 10:57 am

But nothing could compete with the sad and sorry soaking that Burmese kitten Suki suffered after being trapped through a full-wash cycle in her family´s front-loading machine.

The seven-month-old kitten was soaked, washed, rinsed and then spun dry after apparently stretching out for a cat nap on a full load of dirty linen.

The first that owner Liz Fear knew of the cleaning catastrophe was when she reached in to pull washed clothing from the big machine to find a piece of satureded fluff that looked like the fur-ball normally left in the lint filter.

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September 20, 2010

Renal insuficiency in animals

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: acute, animals, cat, chronic, dog, insuficiency, renal — Cynara @ 5:40 pm

The renal insuficiency can be acute, it is characterized by the sudden beginning with abrupt fall of the filtration in the kidneys, accumulation of uremic toxin and disregulation of having flowed, electrolytes and of the acid-basic swinging or chronicle that it is resulting from a primary renal disease that persists during months or years; characterized by irreversible renal dysfunction that tends deteriorating progressively during months or years.

The clinical signs are: sudden beginning of anorexia, apathy, vomit, diarrhea, halitosis, ataxia, oliguria, anuria or polyuria, weight loss.

In the acute renal insuficiency the corporal condition and of the hair they are normal, depression, dehydration, oral ulceration, glossite, necrosis in the language, breath urêmico, hypothermia, fever, tachypnea, bradycardia, urinary vesicle no tangible and kidneys firm, aching and increased.

In the chronic renal inadequacy the kidneys are small and irregular or (increased secondary the disease renal polycystic or lymphoma), dehydration, cachxy, paleness of mucous membranes, oral ulceration, breath with uremic smell, constipation, renal osteodistrophy.

The causes can be many: collide, evil hypertension, heart inadequacy, anti-inflammatories no-esteroidais, agents chemotherapy, snake poison or insect, leptospirosis, hepatic inadequacy, etc.

The treatment is of the patient’s support, diet with reduced tenors of protein, match and sodium, hemodialyse, transplant of stem cells.

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September 17, 2010

The acupuncture in the sport

Filed under: Animal news — Cynara @ 9:19 am

dog acupuncture

With the growing use of horses and dogs in the sport, there is also a crescent interests as for the complemental and alternative therapies in the veterinary medical aid.

The use of the acupuncture for the treatment of current lesions of sport, as pain or muscular distention, sprains articulate, tendon sprain or of the ligament or bone lesions, it can minimize the time “stopped” for the recovery and the use of anti-inflammatory.

It is common that the current evident lesions of sports result of a chain of events. What is the main complaint and the symptom presented in the moment of the consultation to the veterinarian is not necessarily the fact or the problem that it began the sequence of events.

The use of a symptomatic treatment can propitiate gets better just temporary, having appeal of the primary complaint or the appearance of new complaints.

An interaction between the Chinese Traditional Medicine and the Veterinary Medicine can give subsidies for an including treatment.

The secret to solve any problem is to deduce and to correct the source, just not to relieve the symptom.

MTC doesn’t worry about specific agents of disease or of lesion, as it happens with the Tradicional Medicine. Instead of that, the unbalanced interactions with the influences environmental, so much interns as externs, the causes of the disease are considered. The same can be said on the influences of the diseases in the current lesions of sport, because many of them are resulting of cumulative tensions in the weak tissues and in the immunological functions.

We sometimes noticed problems in some organs (deficiency or excess of energy in the meridians) and those alterations can be caused by the internal factors.

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September 14, 2010

The laser in the treatment of tendon problems

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, dogs, horses, tendon problems, therapeutic laser, treatment — Cynara @ 10:39 am

therapeutic laser

The treatment of tendon problems with Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emisison of Radiotion) has been reaching great results in short space of time.

The therapeutic laser emits, at the most, 1 mW of energy, therefore, their effects are biomodulate and no thermal.

The laser increases:

* the sanguine circulation,

* activity of the lymphatic system,

* synthesis of DNA and RNA,

* amount of fibroblast,

* levels of oxide nítric

and it decreases:

* speed of transport of the sensorial nerve,

* it reduces the excitability of the receivers of the pain,

* it stimulates the production of collagen,

* it stimulates the phagocytosis,

* it stimulates the liberation of ATP,

* it stimulates the osteoblast.

The tendons almost consist that entirely in bunches of collagen in regular arrangement and they possess great tensive force.

As the laser stimulates the production of collagen, has anti-inflammatory action and it acts in the pain. The reached results have been satisfactory and fast. The lesions in the tendons close, therefore collagen is produced filling out the lesion.

In big lesions, it can be used the technique of transplant of stem cells and the laser sections. It has been obtaining results in 1 month of treatment.

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