The Kintamani dog is an evolving breed indigenous to the Kintamani region of Bali. Kintamani dogs cohabitate with feral Bali street dogs, although folklore has the breed originating 600 years ago from a Chinese Chow Chow. The physical and personality characteristics of the Kintamani dog make it a popular pet for the Balinese, and efforts are currently under way to have the dog accepted by the F...

ABSTRACT Purpose to investigate the communicative skills of children belonging multispecies families whose pet is a dog. Methods this an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative, cross-sectional study. Sample: 34 subjects both sexes aged three 3 4 years and 5 months families. The study was conducted at subjects’ own homes. Procedure: data were collected through observation filming 30-min interacti...

polydactyly is the congenital presence of one or more extra digits. the extra digit often does not contain a full complement of bones. unilateral syndactyly and polydactyl mixed-breed dog was used as a case study. a three-month old unvaccinated intact female mixed breed dog weighing 8 kg, presented with a deformity of the left forepaw was used for this study. the deformity had been present sinc...

the objective of this study was to assess the etiology, diagnosis, treatment methods, surgical findings, postoperative results and necropsy findings of seventeencases of thoracic traumaby evaluating medical records. a car accident, falling down, stabbing and bites were identified asthe causes of trauma. diagnosed pathologies in the cases included pneumothorax, hemothorax, pulmonary contusion, l...

a 5-year-old male cross-bred guard dog with signs of anorexia, vomiting and jaundice was referred to small animal hospital, faculty of veterinary medicine, university of tehran. initial diagnostic laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, haemoconcentration, azotaemia, high liver enzyme activities, proteinuria and bilirubinuria. aggressive therapeutic procedures failed to improv...

Epithelial junctions depend on intercellular interactions between β(1) subunits of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase molecules of neighboring cells. The interaction between dog and rat subunits is less effective than the interaction between two dog β(1) subunits, indicating the importance of species-specific regions for β(1)-β(1) binding. To identify these regions, the species-specific amino acid residues ...

With an apparent decline in rabies vaccination coverage in dog populations in many parts of eastern and southern Africa, consideration should be given to more effective targeting of rabies vaccination to protect those sectors of the dog population with the greatest capacity to transmit rabies. This paper discusses the potential contributions that dog ecology studies may make to the improved del...

This paper explores the intersection of assistance dog welfare and intelligent systems with a technological intervention in the form of an emergency canine alert system. We make the case that assistance dog welfare can be affected by the welfare of their human handlers, and examine the need for a canine alert system that enables the dog to take control over a potentially distressing situation t...

Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother–infant relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized (hand-reared) dog, Canis familiaris, and wolf, Canis lupus, puppies towards their human caregiver with that of pet dog puppies of the same age. The experiment was designed to study whether (1) dog puppies as young as 16 weeks ...

BACKGROUND Little information or data are available concerning the stability and compatibility of dog epithelia and dog dander allergens. OBJECTIVE To determine the immunochemical reactivities of commercial, nonstandardized dog epithelia and dog dander extracts after exposures to various temperatures or after mixing with high-protease fungal and cockroach extracts at concentrations recommende...