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June 2, 2010

Microchip: why to use?

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Lost animals get sick, they suffer mistreatments, they take risks of accidents and of life. 
 
The electronic identification is the most effective form and it holds of registering the responsible proprietor for the animal, in a definitive way. The microchip never gets lost, to the opposite, he is everything that your animal needs to return quickly home. Besides, putting microchip in your pet, you will be preserving their rights and well-being, because the electronic identification has if turning obligatory all over the world.  
 
The veterinary doctor, with a single click, makes the application of the microchip, it is fast, easy and painless. 
 
If the animal be found in the street, the reader will identify the number of the animal and all his data. She also can to store data as vaccines, vermifuge and the whole medical report.  

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May 31, 2010

Accidents with animals

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In the day by day of a veterinary clinic are common services of uneven animals. Running over, falls, ingestion of poisonous products, bitten… 
 
The animal is as a child, some amusement and they are where they should not be. 
 
It is common the dog or the cat to be run over by the own owner when leaving of house, children to leave animals locked in the car and them to die suffocated. They swallow harmful objects to the health to the they eat the shoes, plastic sacks, lines… 
 
Some basic cares can save the life of your animal, check some tips: 
 
1 - never leaves shoes or slippers for the house; 
 
2 – when leaving of car always look if they are not sleeping below of the vehicle; 
 
3 - don’t leave within his reach plastic sacks, mainly were been with food and line threads, string… 
 
4 – if you live in apartment, put screen in the windows or maintain them closed; 
 
5 – when leaving of house verified if the animals are at safe place so that they don’t leave running for street when opening the gate; 
 
6 – never transport a tied animal the truck bucket and out of the box of transports. 
 
Some simple cares can avoid many upset.  

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April 28, 2010

Trauma in animals

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briga de cãesMajor traumatic insults may result in various head and spinal lesions, depending on the anatomical location. A thorough history usually documents the type of trauma the patient has sustained, although the cause is sometimes unknown or sumised by concurrent findings if the accident is not witnessed.

Automobile accidentes, gunshot wounds, falls, and dog-fight injuries are common. Spinal injuries may consist of vertebral subluxation or luxation, vertebral fracture, vertebral fracture/luxation, or trauma induced intervertebral disk herniation.

As with any trauma patient, full assessment of all body systems is essential to diagnose and treat shock and any other life-threatening or concurrent injuries. Following or concurrently with a complete patient assessment, a neurologic examination is performed to localize the injury and to determine the severity of the deficits. It is vital that the examination be carefully performed, minimizing movement of the patient to avoid further damage to the spinal cord as a result of instability of the spinal column.

The decision to treat the patient is based on the severity of the neurologic deficits, the type of vertebral injury, the severity of any concurrent injuries, and the owner´s understanding of the risk, prognosis, and expense of the injury and treatment.

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April 19, 2010

Working with behavior problems

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The handling is important for any problem of behavior. He is to supply safety and/or to stop the escalade of the behavior while he works him in a program of behavior modification. 
 
A lot of times the potential exists for production of wounds. Aggressive pet can hurt the targets through bitten and scratches. 
 
In cases of anxiety or of upset compulsive obsessor, the animal can inflict wounds to himself. The proprietors owe if it involves in procedures to protect the safety of the other ones and of the animal. Appropriate contention is always indicated. The contention level can vary in each case, but at least it should include to surround the property in a safe way or to maintain him arrested to a leash when it be not confined at the house. 
 
When the animal wraps up in the undesirable behavior, usually compensation, reinforcement, exists for him. When a dog barks in an aggressive way for a person that goes by the house, her departure rewards the aggressive demonstration. When a dog urinates in the rug, the immediate relief of the empty bladder does with that he feels more confortable. 
 
How to do for not reinforcing the behavior problem: 
 
1 - identifies and avoid deflagrates for the undesired behavior. 
 
2 - resist the undesirable behavior with aggression or punishment (they tend to worsen the problem). 
 
3 - doesn’t resist the undesirable behavior comforting the animal. 
 
4 - reacts in a calm way of having controlled to the undesirable behavior.  
 
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April 15, 2010

Massage: therapeutic effects

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massagem em cãesMassage is generally enjoyed by small animal patients and helps to relieve distress, anxiety, and discomfort. There are many postulated effects of massage. Unfortunately, many of these have not been substantiated by systematic scientific investigations.

Stroking young animals results in a reduction in the animal´s physiologic response to stress. Young animals that are handled also show greater development of the cortex and the subcortex of the brain. They learn faster and have a more advanced stage of neural development than nonhandled animals.

Resistance to infection later in life may also be beneficially influenced by cutaneous stimulation experienced by the infant animal.

If a hand is placed over the surface of a  dog´s skin, heat is felt between the two surfaces. Heat is a form of energy, and some schools of massage, use the energy field that exists around the body.

Massage may add an external stimulus to sensory organs and either increases muscle tone by stimulation or reduces it, probably by facillitating an accommodation of the spindle, causing it to reset at a lower treshold of excitability.

It is believed that the circulatory effect of massage  will reduce muscle sorennes and thus aid clinical signs associated with muscle injury or post exercise recovery.

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April 7, 2010

When to do a magnetic resonance in your animal

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The exam of Magnetic Resonance is a diagnosis method for image no invasive and painless that it doesn’t use ionize radiation and it allows to portray images of soft tissues in high definition with resolution of high contrast. 
 
 The exam is recommended for precocious identification of alterations in column, spinal cord and degeneration of the intervertebral disks. 
 
It possesses high sensibility for the diagnosis of  intramedullar neoplasia, discrimination between spinal cord and nerves in comparison with the cephalorachidian liquid. Besides could be suitable and efficient highly for patient victims of convulsive disturbances, alterations of behavior, depression, visual alterations, ataxia, pain in column, paresis, lesions articulate (it gets to locate lesions with only 0,5 millimeters), lesions in tendons and ligaments among others. 
 
 The magnetic resonance determines the place and the malice of several tumors and it is extremely sensitive in showing hemorrhage areas as well as to esteem his time of duration. 
 
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April 1, 2010

Hyperactivity in dogs and cats

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The hyperactivity is a very common complaint that links the excitability and/or excessive activity. It in general is not owed to a physiologic disturbance, but to a normal expression of typical behaviors of a race or the a behavior unaware conditioned. 
 
However, some cases of hyperactivity and hyperexcitability are secondary to a true psychological upset. The animals that demonstrate them are referred as hypercinesia, in other words, they don’t become used to naturally to environmental incentives and they possess an exacerbated reactivity. 
 
Not just those animals demonstrate excessive levels of activity and reactivity, as well as they seem not to get to be quiet or to rest, even in atmosphere without incentives. 
 
Although in general those animals don’t have the intention of causing damages, wounds can happen in an inadvertent way with agitated behaviors, how to jump in the people. 
 
After the evaluation of the case, the treatment can be accomplished with the use of medicines, behavior change and obedience training. 
 
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March 31, 2010

Pain and therapy with acupuncture

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The placement of needles in specific acupuncture points can relieve the pain through different mechanisms. First, the acupuncture can reduce muscle spasms hen applied in trigger-points. The lack of spasms increases the comfort considerably.  
  
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The acupuncture can also induce the liberation of a variety neurotransmitters that can affect the processing of the painful pulse. That effect can be intensified being used specific types of electric stimulation. The appropriate placement of the needles and the electric stimulation of low frequency (2 to 6 Hz) they induce the central liberation of endorfinas that can induce the analgesia by the inhibition of the transmission of pulses noxious of his origin for the brain and of the increase of the descending inhibition of turn to the periphery. That stimulation type usually produces analgesia in 10 to 20 minutes and it is considered cumulative, meaning that the subsequent treatments produce analgesia well and better. 
 
The electric stimulation of high frequency (100 to 200 Hz) it induces the  adrenaline and noradrenaline liberation, also promoting cumulative analgesia. 
 
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March 23, 2010

The noise phobia

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The noise phobia is a fear deep, persistent and excessive of noises. An answer can vary from a catatonic state to a maniac state. The predominant characteristic is that the reaction is excessive to the end and considered abnormal to the context. 
 
Physiologic alterations as hypervigilance, avoid behaviors, possible aggression, palpitation, salivation, diarrhea, vomit, increase of the motive activity, tremors, weight loss in the course of time, extensive pupils, excessive loss of for the… they can happen. 
 
It can attack dogs and cats of any age, sex or race. 
 
A management of the behavior should be made so that the animal gets used to the sounds, mainly those that him more he is afraid. 
 
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March 22, 2010

Members incoordination

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The ataxia is a sign of sensitive dysfunction that it produces members incoordination, head and/or trunk. 
 
They are three clinical types: sensitive, vestibular and cerebellar. All produce alterations in the coordination of members, but the vestibular ataxias and cerebellar also produce alterations in the head’s movements and of the neck. 
 
The clinical signs appear in agreement with the location of the problem. 
 
1 – when only a member be involved – it considers a lameness problem, 
 
2 – only the affected pelvic members – probably a disturbance in the spinal cord, 
 
3 – all or just the members on the same side affected – cerebellar, 
 
4 – inclination of the head – vestibular. 
 
The causes can be neurological (degenerative, anomalies, neoplastic, inflammatory, poisonous, infectious, traumatic), metabolic (anemia), several (drugs, breathing and heart compromising). 
 
The treatment depends on the cause. The acupuncture and the physiotherapy help in the recovery of the animal. 
 
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