Anjing Shetland Sheepdog

Anjing yang biasa dipanggil "Sheltie" merupakan versi mini dari anjing Collie. Sheltie sangat terkenal dan disukai oleh banyak orang karena bentuknya yang cantik dengan daya kerja yang istimewa.  Latar belakang Sheltie termasuk salah satu anjing yang paling digemari di dunia. Anjing ini berasal dari kepulauan Shetland dan mulai diperkenalkan di Inggris pada akhir abad ke-19. Banyak yang beranggapan kalau Sheltie merupakan hasil dari pengolahan genetik anjing Collie sehingga didapat anjing Collie yang berukuran mini. Tetapi , ada juga yang beranggapan kalau Sheltie bukan berasal dari pengolahan genetic anjing Collie,...

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Anjing Gembala Jerman

Anjing gembala jerman merupakan anjing pekerja Jerman merupakan anjing paling banyak dikenal dan digemari orang seluruh pelosok dunia, sedangkan di Indonesia dikenal dengan istilah anjing Herder.  LATAR BELAKANG Sejarah dan asal mula anjing gembala german/german shepherd pertama kali disebarkan oleh Capt. Max Von Stephanitz yang sekaligus dijuluki sebagai tokoh dan "bapak " anjing ras Gembala German. Ia adalah seorang yang telah lama mengagumi kwalitas berbagai anjing gembala, terutama pada segi intelegensia, kekuatan dan kemampuan kerjanya. Pada Tahun 1899, bersama seorang temannya ia mengunjungi suatu pameran anjing....

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Anjing Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Anjing Pembroke Welsh Corgi berasal dari South West Wales , dipercaya bahwa nenek moyang dari Pembroke Welsh Corgi telah diperkenalkan oleh Flemish Weavers, dibawa ke Britain/Inggris tahun 1100 oleh Henry I. Sekarang dipercaya berasal dari Spitz berbeda dengan Cardigan Welsh Corgi, yang mana berasal dari nenek moyang yang sama dengan Dachshund. Pembroke Welsh Corgi mempunyai nenek moyang kombinasi dari leluhur Keeshond, Pomeranian , Schipperke dan Swedish Vallhund. Bagaimanapun tidak ada kerancuan bahwa Pembroke adalah rekan manusia yang sangat dihargai sebagai penggiring ternak di domba-domba dan lembu di banyak negara-negara sampai...

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Anjing Belgian Malinois

Anjing Belgian Malinois atau biasa hanya disebut dengan Malinois adalah anjing yang sangat setia. Dia suka menjadi bayangan dari tuannya, apakah itu pada waktu tuannya lari pagi, ataupun sedang duduk membaca dia selalu berada disamping tuannya. Tidak jarang dia juga suka mengikuti tuannya sampai kedalam rumah atau kamar kecil. Mereka sangat sensitif, jadi sangat cepat mengetahui mood dari tuannya, apakah lagi senang, sedih atau marah. Malinois memiliki kepintaran yang sangat tajam. Mereka tidak suka dihukum dalam pelatihan, tapi dengan cara positif menghasilkan sifat yang luar biasa.  . Standarisasi Penampilan Umum...

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Anjing Rough Collie

Anjing Collie berasal dari dataran tinggi Scotland, Anjing ini dikembangkan pada mulanya sebagai anjing gembala dan penjaga. yang menurut sejarahnya berabad-abad yang lalu dipergunakan sebagai anjing gembala dan penjaga.  Menurut sejarahnya nenek moyang Collie berasal dari anjing gembala kuno. Tapi Rough Collie atau Lassie Collie yang kita kenal sekarang jadi popular di masa pemerintahan Ratu Victoria di tahun 1800-an. Selama kunjungannya ke Istana Balmoral di Skotlandia RatuVictoria terkesan pada banyaknya Collie yang bekerja. Ia membawa pulang beberapa ekor ke kandang istananya di Inggris. Saat di kandang istana, disarankan...

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Some Dogs Are SEALs

SEALs are members of the Navy who have lots of special training, so that they can go on really dangerous and difficult and sometimes secret missions.  The word SEAL stands for sea, air, and land, which are all the places that these special troops are trained to fight. Well, back in May, when that bad man, Osama bin Laden, got killed by Navy SEALs, it turned out that one SEAL was actually a dog.  And later on, we found out that the dog was a German Shepherd named Cairo. But that's all the information I could find about the dog, which is more than almost anyone knows about the human SEALs who were in the operation.  And the reason...

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I HAVE CUSHING'S DISEASE!

A dog with hair loss and a potbelly due to Cushing's On Monday, I had to spend another boring, icky day at the vet's office getting tested for Cushing's.  Today Dr. Griswald called Mom and said I "probably" have it.  But Mom and I think it's more than probable, because I have so many of the symptoms for it.  Well, except Dr. Griswald said there were some other things that I might have instead, but since those things are likely to be worse than Cushing's, Mom and I like to think that Cushing's is what I have. So we have been doing some in-depth research on this illness, and I am going to try to tell you something about it.  But...

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WEREWOLF SYNDROME

I am not making this up!  There really is such a thing as werewolf syndrome, and the real name for it is hypertrichosis.  This is not like in the movies, where a person turns into a werewolf every time there's a full moon.  No, this is different.  It's where a person has a whole bunch of hair growing on them, like for instance all over their entire face, where you would not expect a human to have hair. There are two ways you can get hypertrichosis, and one is that you are born with it, and the other is that you get it later in life, like because of some drugs you are taking or because you have cancer or maybe because of an...

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Non-Vets Doing Surgery

Sal sent this to me today....Question:  Is it legal for someone other than a Veterinarian to perform surgeryto spay a dog?I ask because walking out of my vet’s office, I overheard the receptionisttalking and she said that the vet would not be coming in.  However, I was hadjust dropped off my dog to be spayed.  I just want to make sure she isn’t inharm’s way.I can't speak for outside of the US or even in every state.  However, I've been licensed in 6 states in various parts of the country and in all of those states, as well as any I've ever heard of, it is absolutely, positively NOT legal, or a good idea.  The owner of that practice could be sued for malpractice and end up with jail time for allowing it.  Also, the person who did the surgery could go to jail...

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Reasons Regarding Regurgitation

Please excuse my alliteration in the title, but it just sounded fun.  Here's an email from Stefanie....I have recently taken on a second foster dog. She is only about a year old and is a border collie cross. A high energy dog - which is fine - I'm learning how to channel her energy. I've noticed though that she will glurp out water as she is walking or running around. She also even glurped (my non-technical term for regurgitation) out dog food and water about 6 hours after her last meal. It's not a lot and while she has actually vomited a couple of times - it's been different objects she's chewed on around the house - it's more the regurgitation that has me puzzled. Is regurgitation a few times a day enough to warrant a vet visit? She doesn't have any other symptoms other than what I've...

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Attacked! The Good And Bad

One of the hardest things we as veterinarians have to face is the enmity of our patients.  Most people probably don't realize the real danger veterinary staff are faced with on a daily basis.  Take today for example.  I saw around 20 pets, mostly dogs, and ff those pets I had five try to bite me.  Most of them made really serious attempts to the point that we had difficulty getting muzzles on them and one we had to give an intramuscular sedative to knock her out.  Though none were likely to truly maul me, several potentially could have ended me up at the emergency room for stitches.This isn't a rare occurrence.  In fact, it's a rare day when I don't have a pet try to bite or scratch me.  It's one of the least favorite aspects of my job, especially on days...

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DODO BIRDS

Dodos have been extinct for a long time, like since about 1690.  They are very famous for being extinct, so people say things like "dead as a dodo" or "go the way of the dodo."  There's a lot we don't know for sure about dodo birds, like whether they were fat, like in most of the pictures of them, or whether they were really thinner and more able to run fast. We don't even know for sure where the name dodo came from.  The Dutch people who were the first ones to describe the birds, called them walghvogels, which means "wallow birds" or "loathsome birds."  They called them this because dodos weren't very yummy to eat.  Later...

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Identify The Critter

Here's one from Andrea that I'm hoping my readers can help with...I'm a norwegian vet tech student currently working part of my internship at an animal clinic in Denmark. There are a lot of heart and lung worms now in the summer, so we do a lot of worm tests daily. Today I was microscoping a sample from a pug and didn't find any larvaes. But there was something else. Without the microscope I could see a lot of teeny tiny white "rice". I know they're not tape worm segments! Which seems to bee the only answer people get when they find white things in their dogs feces. I can't find anything on the internet that looks like it. I've attached...

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Are Homemade Diets Recommended?

John sent the following message to me...My question is: Will you, as a veterinarian, ever recommend home cooked dog/cat food to dog/cat owners? If a client, like myself, insist, could you prescribe some recipes and supplements for individual dogs?I'm a believer in homemade pet food. But most vets I spoke to recommend that I buy commercial pet food. I understand commercial foods are approved with a balanced nutritional formula. I have done some research (online and books) and I choose to cook for my 2-year-old mini dachshund and 3-months old Yorkie. John, I'll first answer briefly:  yes and no!  It really depends on the pet and the client.In general I have the same view as most of my colleagues that you have spoken with.  Commerically prepared pet foods are good nutrition (though...

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Do Cat Whiskers Regrow?

Mary asks a common question....My friend has a couple of VERY active children and a longsuffering cat.  I was visiting this friend a few days ago when she pointed out where her son decided to give the cat a bit of a trim on her back, and drastically cut back her whiskers.  My friend told me that she's really worried about the cat now because whiskers don't grow back.  I had never heard of this before.  Is this true?  If so, what can she do to protect her cat now that she's somewhat handicapped?Great question, Mary, and a common one.  Whiskers not regrowing is an old wives' tale that keeps being spread around.  The whiskers on any mammal are really nothing more than specially modified hair.  They tend to be thicker and stiffer than normal hairs, and at...

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THE MOON RABBIT

Most people have heard of the Man in the Moon, but I have to admit that when I look up and baroo at the moon, I cannot exactly figure out where the face of this man is supposed to be.  And I especially don't understand what he's doing up there unless he's spying on everybody on earth.  So that's why I was excited to learn about the Rabbit in the Moon, and to see pictures that show exactly where this rabbit is, because the Moon Rabbit really does look like a rabbit to me. The Chinese were some of the first people to recognize the rabbit that lives on the moon.  He is mentioned in a poem from the Warring States period, which...

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AFRICAN ELEPHANTS

Here's how you can tell the difference between African elephants and Asian elephants: 1.  African elephants live in Africa and Asian elephants live in Asia. 2.  African elephants are bigger. 3.  Also, African elephants have bigger ears. 4.  Both male and female African elephants have tusks, but only male Asian elephants do. 5.  African elephants have two finger-like things at the tip of their trunks, and Asian elephants only have one. 6.  Asian elephants can be tamed, and they will carry heavy loads and do a bunch of work for people, but African elephants prefer being self-employed. There are two different...

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