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June 2, 2010

Microchip: why to use?

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: animals, cats, dogs, lost, microchip — Cynara @ 8:00 am

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 17, 2010

Mycosis in dogs and cats

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: cats, dogs, hair, mycosis, skin — Cynara @ 1:00 pm

It is the infection of the hair and horny stratum caused by mushrooms. Common in dogs and cats, with larger incidence in nestlings, animals with low immunity and cats with long hair.

The cutaneous lesion can be located or widespread. It can have minimum itch the discreet and, occasionally intense. In general the lesions show as circular areas of alopecia, irregular or diffuse, with variable degrees of desquamation. The remaining hair can seem short or broken.

Other symptoms in dogs and cats include erythema, pimples, crusts, seborrhea.

The condition of bearer asymptomatic is common in cats, especially in those with long hair.

The diagnosis is made through ultraviolet light, with potassium hydroxide, histology of the skin and culture and mushrooms.

The duration of the treatment is around 4 to 6 weeks.

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May 7, 2010

Do you know what cognitive dysfunction is in animals?

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: aging, animals, behavior, cats, cerebral, cognitive, dogs, dysfunction — Cynara @ 8:00 am

The cognitive dysfunction is a syndrome associated with cerebral aging. The cerebral changes take to alterations in the perception, smaller answer to incentives and deficits in the learning and in the memory. Subtle signs are observed in the initial apprenticeships, calls of cognitive decline.

They were identified multiple neurological changes. It is not clear which specific changes are associated with the clinical signs of the cognitive decline.

In the affected animals it happens decrease in the number of neurons and increase of toxins, implicating the nervous transmission. Nor all the animals are affected, it usually happens in older animals. Many dogs and cats age with success and they don’t demonstrate changes in the cognitive function during the life.

The signs are: disorientation, just as losing in family atmospheres; confusion; alterations in the cycle of the period sleep/wake, including to wake up or to vocalize at night and sometimes an increase in the sleep during the day; alterations of behavior; altered activity or inactivity.

In general those animals don’t present a risk to the safety. However, some can become more irritable and to begin to demonstrate aggressive answers. Some animals can present risk for itself own, when confused, in case they get lost.

Some drugs exist for treatment. A medical evaluation is necessary so that the treatment is adapted.

Do you know some animal that suffers of cognitive dysfunction?

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May 5, 2010

Tips for the animal to stop ingesting feces

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animal, behavior, cats, dogs, feces, ingestion, metabolic, nutritional, tips — Cynara @ 8:00 am

To modify an animal behavior, in first place it is necessary to identify the cause. A clinical exam will discard problems nutritional or metabolic.

If the problem is nutritional the vitamin supplement of the diet will solve the problem and in the cases of metabolic problems, the treatment of the disease will also solve the problem.

Now, being a behavior problem, some measured they are necessary for the animal to give up of that habit.

In first place, reduce the access to the feces through it ready elimination. Walk with the arrested dog to the guide, to facilitate to move away him of the feces.

Don’t allow access to the street without supervision, unless the animal has defecated and the area is free from fecal material.

Move the sanitary trays for an inaccessible area to the dog.

Put a muzzle in the walks. Give a reward of food to the dog when he defecates, doing with that he waits for the food instead of seeking for feces.

Teach the command “Leaves” in order to call the dog for far away from the feces and reward him when he obeys.

Provide valves of escape alternatives for the activities and meals, such as toys feeders and games of finding food.

Use repellent with unpleasant smell to the animal.

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April 26, 2010

Cervical disk disease

Filed under: Dogs care — Tags: acupuncture, cervical, disease, disk, dogs, pain, physiotherapy — Cynara @ 8:00 am

Cervical disk disease commonly affects small, middle-age to older chondrodystrophic breeds and is usually classified as a type I extrusion. Beagles, Dachshunds, Pekingese, and Poodles tend to be overrepresented. The C2-C3 disk space is most commonly affected, with the frequency decreasing at progressively more caudal disk spaces.

Cervical disk disease in large-breed dogs is usually associated with type II protrusion of the caudal disks and is often secondary to cervical spondylomyelopathy. Breeds commonly affected are Doberman and Great Danes.

Neck pain is the most common and often the only sign of cervical disk disease. This is manifested as low head carriage, stiffness or decreased motion of the neck, vocalizing, and spasms of the neck muscles. Some dogs exhibit lameness of one or both thoracic limbs, due to nerve root or spinal nerve compression.

In severe cases, there may be ataxia, conscious proprioceptive deficits, weakness, or rarely, paralysis of all limbs.

Other causes of neck pain include trauma, neoplasia, meningitis, discospondylitis, cervical spondylomyelopathy, and atlantoaxial instability.

Diagnosis is based on the clinical features, neurological examination, spinal radiography, myelography, and advanced imaging techniques, including computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis is helpful in identifying or ruling out meningitis.

Treatment options include surgery and nonsurgical therapy (antiinflammatory drugs, physiotherapy and acupuncture), with the decision based on the duration and severity of clinical signs.

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April 15, 2010

Massage: therapeutic effects

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: animals, cats, dogs, effects, massage, therapeutic — Cynara @ 8:00 am

Massage 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 12, 2010

Problems in trips with dogs and cats

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: anxiety, cats, dogs, nausea, problems, trip — Cynara @ 8:00 am

The expectations of animals travel with their owners, so much to a close place, as for distant destinies, they are growing, as it is evidenced by hotels that admit pet and for activities for them in the destiny place.

Conditions that turn those displacements difficult or dangerous for the animal or for the proprietor they need to receive attention.

Concerns on trips with pet relapse on three categories: nausea movement, uncontrollable behaviors and related behaviors the anxiety.

The safety of the animal and of the person operating the vehicle can be committed in a significant way when the animal has related problems the trip. His behavior can distract the proprietor, turning it prone to you alter.

Animals that space for the front bank of the car can put in risk the proprietor’s ability to drive in a correct way, as well as his own integrity.

Whenever it will travel, or even in short distances, use the transport box or the seatbelt for animals. He will be safe and it won’t disturb the driver. Consult the veterinarian so that some medicine can be written prescriptions in case the animal has nausea or be very anxious.

Good Trip!

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April 9, 2010

Compulsive behavior in animals

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, behavior, cats, compulsive, dogs, eat, walk — Cynara @ 8:00 am

Compulsive behaviors are a sequence of movements usually derived of normal behaviors of maintenance (to take care of the for the, to eat, to walk, etc) that are accomplished out of context, in a way repetitive, exaggerating and sustained. To be considered compulsive, the behavior pattern that is under consideration should be pronounced sufficiently in way to exceed the necessary to reach his apparent purpose or so that it interferes in the normal operation of the animal.

The more common compulsive behaviors include to twirl, to pursue the tail, to hallucinate, to walk in circles, to run along a fence, to walk to and fro, to vocalize and to pursue shadows and lights.

The compulsive upset are an exclusion diagnosis. It should be discarded other causes of the aberrant behavior before doing the diagnosis.

They can be an behavior answer to the confinement or other conditions environmental vacancies(as stress, anxiety, frustration). In the course of time, the behavior can become fixed and independent of the atmosphere.

Compulsive behaviors can be classified in five different groups:

1 – locomotion: to twirl, to pursue the tail…

2 – oral: to lick, to bite, to suck the flank…

3 – vocalization: to bark repeatedly, to whine, to meow loud…

4 – hallucinatory: to pursue shadows and lights, to scare…

5 – aggressive: aggression

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April 6, 2010

Why the animals run behind the tail?

Filed under: Dogs care — Tags: animals, behavior, cats, diseases, dogs, pursue, tail — Cynara @ 8:00 am

To pursue the tail or to twirl describes the behavior in that the animal rotates in small circles, seemingly trying to catch his tail. Some animals make contact with their tails and they hurt them, while other they just accomplish the sequence of the persecution.

To pursue the tail is a unspecific sign clinical that can have different aetiologies. The persecution of the tail can happen in times of stress, frustação or conflict. Pursuing the tail that is diagnosed as compulsive behavior is susceptible to be observed in males castrated in in races that are selected for pasturing work.

The genetic predisposition can be a factor. Any situation that causes stress, conflict or frustration can contribute. The animal can be motivated to exhibit certain behavior, but it is impeded of doing, causing frustration.

The causes can be: upset compulsive, search of attention, neurological, dermatologyc, metabolic, infective and degenerative diseases, intoxications, pain, parasites.

It is necessary a detailed exam to discover the cause of the behavior of pursuing the tail and then to draw a treatment protocol.

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April 5, 2010

Is your dog afraid of leaving in the street?

Filed under: Dogs care — Tags: afraid, behavior, dogs, external, fear, street — Cynara @ 8:00 am

The fear is an emotional answer that it usually allows to the animals to avoid dangers or harmful situations. Since the fear answers are part of a normal behavior and they can sometimes be a adaptable reaction, to know when, where and which the intensity of the answer helps to determine if she is abnormal or improper.

The intensity of the answer in relation to the noticed proximity or real of the incentive it can help to define the individual reaction is normal or abnormal. The fearful answers can vary with the situations and inside of a certain situation.

Most of the fearful reactions grows slowly as the time passes, but it can happen as a result of an intense experience to the end. Due to the fact that most of the fear answers is learned, a gradual exhibition and controlled tends to help the animals her learn new associations.

The fear of external atmospheres be associate to noises (as thunders, rockets, horns…), although it can happen regarding places, people or others encourage.

If the animal answers or given not her incentives with a fear answer can be due to genetic influences, previous experiences, socialization and answers previously learned.

It can come as lack of will of to go to the street and to be specific for certain situations, places, doors or period of the day. The animal demonstrates evident signs of fear when it is encouraged to leave of house or when it is out of house.

Some or all the following signs can be present: escape behavior, of hiding, aggression, to lick the lips, yawns, tremors, to bend over, to be static.

Identify the specific incentive that it provokes the fearful behavior: noise of the street, people, animals… The primary objective should be to teach the animal to relax and to be calm under a verbal command. All the action that provokes anxiety should be avoided. Once the dog is calm and relaxed, he can be exposed to adapt external for short periods until him to begin feeling well leaving of house. Go increasing the time the measure that the dog goes if accustoming with the walk.

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