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Abstracts: Invited review: animal-based indicators for on-farm welfare assessment for dairy goats

December 28, 2014January 8, 2015adminLeave a Comment

This paper reviews animal-based welfare indicators to develop a valid, reliable, and feasible on-farm welfare assessment protocol for dairy goats. The indicators were considered in the light of the 4 accepted principles (good feeding, good housing, good health, appropriate behavior) subdivided into 12 criteria developed by the European Welfare Quality program. We will only examine […]

A timely health check for endangered eastern gorillas

December 26, 2014January 8, 2015adminLeave a Comment

While the world’s attention is currently focused on the Ebola crisis in western Africa, a virus that has been responsible for the deaths of almost one third of the region’s gorillas and many thousands of chimpanzees, as well as humans, in eastern Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo veterinarian Alisa Kubala’s interest in studying infectious diseases […]

Abstracts: Alcohol diluent provides the optimal formulation for calcium chloride non-surgical sterilisation in dogs

December 22, 2014January 8, 2015adminLeave a Comment

BACKGROUND: Surgical castration is widely used to sterilise male dogs, but has significant impacts on time to perform the operation, recovery of the animals as well as cost, which can limit population control programs. Previous research has shown intratesticular injection of calcium chloride dihydrate (CaCl2) in saline to be a promising alternative to surgery. However, […]

Eagle Post: Tom Donnelly reports from the US

December 17, 2014January 8, 2015adminLeave a Comment

Before this year, Ebola was a disease relegated to remote villages in Africa. Even public health officials did not worry about it spreading very far. Until recently, they would probably say that the virus typically burned out after ravaging only a handful of people. Then came 2014, a year that has, in many ways, rewritten […]

Abstracts: Smoke inhalation in dogs and cats – a retrospective study over 5.5 years

December 15, 2014January 8, 2015adminLeave a Comment

OBJECTIVE: Particularly during household fires, inhalation of hot air and smoke, and the formation of carboxyhaemoglobin and cyanide lead to respiratory tract and lung injury in small animals. Additionally, oxygenation is impaired in most cases. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyse smoke exposure, physical examination findings and clinical pathology results as well […]