Transcript Happy Healthy Handsome Hounds

Charissa Smith BVSc
Acacia Animal Care 2008
All beings are entitled to their own dreaming:
Peggy Fleming, W.A. Aboriginal artist
Your Dreaming or the Dog Dreaming
That is people want reassurance and safety and don’t want to worry…something easy, rather than uncertainty and a bit of hard work…which is why fast food isn’t f
But just like diet and the consequences in humans, so do the animals suffer.. there is no free ride!
Certainty : Security
Does it exist?
Do we question?
If so, what is the price?
Reassurance and Safety
versus
Uncertainty and Harder Work
Maslow
Health
Maintenance
The guiding star
of life
Of which we are all
a part.
Health Maintenance
 Disease prevention:
 The chemical load………..
 Vaccination
 Worms/ Protozoa: Heart and Intestines
 Fleas/ Lice / Mites
 Ticks
Health Maitenance
 Breeding:
 Performance: Appearance
 Appearance : Health
 Disease prevention
 Gene pool
 AI and Technical change
 Drug modification
Health Maintenance
 Food: Breed and Lifestyle
 Fresh
 Organic
 Dry
 Vegetarian
Health Maintenance
 Nurture: Breed and Lifestyle
 Exercise
 Shelter
 Hygiene
 Companionship
Vaccination
 Distemper : Herpes … 3 vaccines /life, lcyte suppression
 Mixed viruses
 Parvo: Enterovirus… Huge fluctuations, mixed causal
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pathology, 2c only partially covered by present vaccine
Hepatitis: Adenovirus …CAV1 and 2 ?1 vaccine per life
Corona virus: Fluctuates, mixed causal pathology
Leptospirosis: Spirochaete: Unkown
Kennel cough: Mixed causality Virus and Bacteria
Rabies: Lyssa virus… yearly, travelling
Tetanus: Bacteria 5 yearly ?
3 years
 Duration of immunity for canine and feline vaccines: a review
 Authors: Ronald D Schultz
 Journal: Veterinary Microbiology
 In our studies aimed at assessing the minimum duration of vaccinal immunity (DOI),
approximately 1000 dogs have been vaccinated with products from all the major US
veterinary biological companies. The DOI for the various products is determined by
antibody titers for all dogs and, by challenge studies in selected groups of dogs. Recently,
all major companies that make canine vaccines for the U.S. market have completed their own studies; published
data show a 3 years or longer minimum DOI for the canine core products, canine distemper virus
(CDV), canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2), and canine adenovirus-2 (CAV-2). Studies with feline core
vaccines - feline parvovirus (FPV), calicivirus (FCV) and herpes virus type I (FHV-1) have shown a
minimum DOI of greater than 3 years. Based on these results, the current canine and feline guidelines
(which recommend that the last dose of core vaccines be given to puppies and kittens > or =12 weeks
of age or older, then revaccination again at 1 year, then not more often than every 3 years) should
provide a level of protection equal to that achieved by annual revaccination. In contrast, the non-core
canine and feline vaccines, perhaps with the exception of feline leukaemia vaccines, provide
immunity for < or =1 year. In general the effectiveness of the non-core products is less than the core
products. Thus, when required, non-core vaccines should be administered yearly, or even more
frequently.
 01/11/2006; 117(1):75-9.
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References mixed vaccine
 Effects of vaccines on the
canine immune system.
 T R Phillips, J L Jensen,
M J Rubino, W C Yang,
and R D Schultz
 Department of
Pathobiological
Sciences, School of
Veterinary Medicine,
University of WisconsinMadison 53706.
 Can J Vet Res. 1989 April;
53(2): 154–160.
Immunity
 Immunity increases by continual exposure
 Immunity can drop with stress( change)/ weakness
 Organisms get stronger the more animals they infect:
passage
Vaccination Progamms
 Distemper Hepatitis and Parvo
 10 and 14 weeks
 12-15 months
 7 years of age
 Not under 8 weeks
 Yearly titre tests : QML all but PI and BT
 3 year vaccination
 not under 6 weeks
Vaccination :Kennel cough:
 killed by Heat and steam, quaternary ammonium
 Vaccine contains: CAV2, Para Influenza and Bordatella
 Caused by CDV, CAV2, P inf, and Bordatella
Vaccination:
Leptospira..spirochaete bacteria:
Infects humans and 2.5% healthy dogs:
AVJ Zwijnenberg RJG et al 2008 vol 86 p317 22 serotypes , mixed infections
Survival: water or fluids, moderate temperatures around
25 C (77 degrees F) and neutral or slightly alkaline pH.
eg Stagnant water or slowly flowing streams , flooded
conditions. Killed by dry very quickly
Yearly vaccination before summer
Urine-soaked soil six months
Milk from infected dairy cows
Simple Puppy Vaccination Regime
 Puppy:
Choice 10 and 14 weeks
C3
 18 weeks Kennel cough: Parainfluenza and Bordatella
 22 weeks Parainfluenza ( Novotec Vaccine , no Hepatitis)
 Never under 6 weeks
 AT Risk: transport, leaving home early
 6weeks C3, 10 weeks C4 plus Bordatella 14 weeks…C4 plus
Bordatella
 8 weeks C3 12 weeks C4 plus Bordatella, 16 weeks…C4
plus Bordatella
 : Avoid double dose of hepatitis vaccine
From then On
 Titre tests Yearly: These are available for all diseases
except para influenza and bordatella. If the titre test is
low, parvo particularly can be of concern, boost the
immune system herbally/ homeopathically and retest, or
vaccinate if there is an imminent risk. Any hepatitis or
distemper titre means the animal is immune.
 Costs approximately:
 Consulting fee: $44
 Taking blood: $40
 Lab accession fee covers all blood sent at the one time:
$40
Cost of titre test: approx $50 per disease
Leptospirosis
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risk only first vaccine 16 weeks then two more 3
weeks apart. This vaccine can have both liver and kidney side
effects. Do not give with other vaccines. Greater risk than
kennel cough if there is a big contamination.
then
Twice yearly vaccination with the correct vaccine for the type
of leptospirosis in your area, ask your vet. Titre test first.
Cold and dry kill this organism. Dry out all rat affected areas if
possible.
Or 1 month before the beginning of the rainy season, if there
is a defined dry season.
Corona Virus
 Only at risk intensive situations where there is a build
up of fecal contamination and a hisory of debilitating
diarrhoa in puppies.
 This is not common
 If it is occurring it is a sign of inadequate immune
systems.
 This vaccine should not be given within 2 weeks of
other vaccines. It is not needed in healthy adults, and
 Will not stop the cause if there is an immune system
problem.
Tetanus
 Only to dogs under 6 months when very high risk, hunting,
pig baiting with horses
 Vaccine dose 6 months, then a month later sub cut, then
in 12 months then every 5 years.
 However not recommended as horse based protein, and
can cause reactions when given other horse based serum
eg tick and snake antivenine,
 Dogs have generally high resistance to tetanus
 Titre test before vaccinating even if at risk.
Holistic Medicine
 Rescue remedy : Flower and Shell essences
 Homeopathic Medicine: Viral Prevention and
Treatment, Immune and Behavior: Ultradilute
 Herbal Medicine
 Nutriceuticals
Jean Dodds and Thyroid Pannel
 Vaccine reactions and
autoimmunity
 Prevalence and Relevance
 Thyroiditis as a breed
autoimmune marker
Breeding
 Disease testing
 Disease register
 Breeding certificates for registered breeders
 And for Health and Breeding certificates
 For their dogs
 Widening the gene pool
 AI, technical alterations and implications
Food
 Fresh
 Organic:
Environmental
contamination
 Dry food: Wet Preserved
Food
 Energy versus Protein
 Fat versus Muscle
 The Importance of Fat, Vegetables and CHO:
Exercise and Breed
 The importance of change : gut bacteria
and the seasons
 “Fresh food for Dogs and Cats “ Clare Middle
Nurture
 Relaxation: to be
 or not to be
Nurture
Exercise: Age and Stage
Type of Person
Companionship:
Language
Separation
Pack structure
Homeopathic
medicines
Nurture
 Shelter
 Grooming
 Hygiene
Rascal experiencing hygiene
companionship and exercise
Chief White Cloud. It is the duty of man to preserve the earth
and the creations of the great spirit,
mankind being but a grain of sand in the holy circle
which encloses all life.