Each year, 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs. Of those bitten each year, 386,000 are seriously injured and some killed. Consequently, many insurance companies refuse to issue homeowners insurance to owners of specific breeds of dogs considered "vicious" or high risk of causing injury. This study examined whether vicious dog owners were different on antisocial behaviors and personality dimen...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity is beneficial to the health of both people and animals. The role of regular exercise undertaken together, such as dog walking, is a public health interest of mutual benefit. Exploration of barriers and incentives to regular dog walking by owners is now required so that effective interventions to promote it can be designed. This study explored a well-characte...

in this study which has been carried out from 1996 until 1997 soluble latex agglutination antigen was prepared from L, donovani,sudan(s-1) by culturing in special media,harvesting,and later solubilizing by freezing and thawing.the antigen were futher prepared by high speed centrifugation.after measurement of the protein (lowry method) concentration of the antigen was set at 2.2 mg/ml,the antige...

Our prior visual experience plays a critical role in face perception. We show superior perceptual performance for differentiating conspecific (vs non-conspecific), own-race (vs other-race) and familiar (vs unfamiliar) faces. However, it remains unclear whether our experience with faces of other species would influence our gaze allocation for extracting salient facial information. In this eye-tr...

Introduction: Despite a growing body of research indicating that dog walking contributes to meeting physical activity (PA) guidelines, this literature is limited by the use of self-report measures of dog walking and overall PA. The objectives of this pilot study were to objectively assess dog walking with accelerometry, characterize the frequency, duration, and intensity of dog walking, and det...

There are three categories of free roaming dogs: those with an owner, community dogs and abandoned dogs. These free-roaming vulnerable to animal cruelty can cause traffic accidents affect human health through transmission zoonoses bite injuries. The physical ownership status these is unknown in most cities. objective this study was report findings evaluation determine the municipality Campo Mag...

background: normal bacterial flora of the conjunctiva, which inhibits growth of opportunistic organisms, has an important role in the prevention of ocular infections. if resident flora is inhibited by disease or long-term application of antibiotics, opportunistic pathogens overgrow, leading to disease. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ophthalmic chloramphenico...

heartworm infection is one of the most important parasitic diseases in dogs and an increasing number of cases are reported each year by necropsy in ahvaz. this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of dirofilaria immitisinfection and to investigate the risk factors related to heartworm disease in urban dogs in this area. blood samples were collected from 100 dogs from feb 2007 to feb ...

megaesophagus (esophageal dilatation) is a neuromuscular disease. in this disorder, the esophagus is abnormally stretched and air is collected with food in it. two male dogs aged 4 and 6-year-old, german shepherd breeds and weighing 18.4 and 23.2 kg were presented to the veterinary hospital of shahid chamran university with complaints of regurgitation, dehydration, anorexia, depression, dysphag...

a three-month-old male native puppy with lameness, metaphyseal swelling, pain, depression,inappetence and variable pyrexia was diagnosed as having hypertrophic osteodystrophy (hod) based onradiologic examination. the hemogram and biochemical profiles were within normal limits. radiologicexamination revealed a radiolucent zone in the metaphyses and a radiopaque band near the physes of theappendi...