The authors assessed the ongoing needs of 34 pediatric dog bite victims and their families 1 month after receiving care in a pediatric emergency department. More than 70% of the parents noted at least 1 new concerning behavior in their children, and more than 85% of the parents also endorsed concerns about their own reactions. Half of the parents believed that children, in general, might benefi...

A 17-month-old male King Charles cavalier was presented with acute onset of generalized body tremors and facial twitching after being exposed to 2 different compounds of the pyrethrins/pyrethroids group and imidacloprid. Bifenthrin toxicity was confirmed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Initial therapy consisted of diazepam, metacarbamol and IV fluids, followed by general anesthesia wit...

OBJECTIVE The authors attempted to remedy the current lack of empirically evaluated dog-bite prevention programs for children under 7 by assessing children's learning success with the "Blue Dog" CD. METHODS Ninety-six 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-old children used the interactive CD in an initial exposure phase, a training and a testing phase. Half received verbal feedback, and the other half addit...

An age-matched case-control study was initiated to determine the major risk factors associated with CKD in cats and dogs and to determine what clinical signs cat and dog owners observed before their veterinarian diagnosed their pet with CKD. When compared to controls, the feline cases were more likely to have had polydipsia and polyuria in the year before the owners' cats were diagnosed with CK...

described the detection of a malignant melanoma by a pet dog. A 44-year-old woman’s border collie/Doberman mix sniffed and bit at a specific mole on her leg while ignoring other moles and lesions, prompting medical attention that led to the diagnosis. Church and Williams2 later reported a patient whose Labrador retriever doggedly sniffed at a lesion on the patient’s left thigh, eventually leadi...

Literacy is a key factor in occupational success and social integration. However, an increasing number of children lack appropriate reading skills. There is growing evidence that dogs have positive effects on reading performance. We investigated the short-term effects of dogs on reading performance in 36 third-graders and monitored physiological parameters [heart rate (HR), heart rate variabili...

Some dogs display behaviors such as excessive barking and jumping. Unwanted behaviors can often lead to animal abuse or pet relinquishment to a shelter. This study focused on the effects of androstenone on the behavior of dogs showing a barking and jumping syndrome. In the first study, barking dogs were sprayed with (a) nothing, (b) a placebo spray with sound or noise, (c) the same as (b) plus ...

Dog bites are a medical problem for millions of people, children being the most common victims. Human deaths attributable to dog bite injury (not rabies) are relatively infrequent. There have been some epidemiologic reviews, but this study is the first attempt to arrive at an understanding of bites involving predation on human beings by conducting behavioral examinations under controlled condit...

This paper provides an overview of wolf research in Russia at the beginning 21st century. Wolf covered various directions, including population density estimation, management methods and minimization human-wildlife conflicts, general behavioral ecology, behavior, genetics morphology, paleontology, dog domestication, helminthology wolves’ role rabies transmission. Some studies are performed with...