Teaching owners how to train their dogs is an important part of maintaining the health and safety people. Yet we do not know what behavioral characteristics are relevant dog training or if owner cognitive abilities play a role in success. The aim this study determine which both predict success completing American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen program. Before first session course, completed su...

Regular physical activity is an important means of promoting health, both in people and their pets. Walking is the most common method used for dogs, but there is a lack of clarity on how much daily activity different breeds of dog require. Data from an online survey of UK dog owners were collected between June and August in 2014. The University of Liverpool Ethics Committee approved the project...

One of the key problems to the understanding of auroral arcs is the resistivity that they present to the flow of fieldaligned electric currents. Since collisional resistivity cannot account for the observations, one is faced with the question of what kind of collisionless process can account for the enhanced resistance. Previous theories [Kindel and Kennel, 1971] attempted to associate the anom...

BACKGROUND The bacterial genus Staphylococcus consists of many species that causes infections in pet animals. Antimicrobial resistant staphylococci cause infections that are difficult to treat and they are important from the point of one health perspective. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRS) species, including methicillin-resistan...

The number of medical procedures using iodinated contrast media has increased in recent decades, though are regarded as safer. Nine Nigerian indigenous breed dogs were acquired and housed the Small Animal Kennel Veterinary Research Institute Hospital. nine grouped into three groups animals each. Group A was control, given urografin at 370 mg/kg, ten minutes before exposure to x-ray. B dexametha...