A serosurvey of rabies antibodies among domestic dogs (Canis familiaris, n = 178), spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta, n = 72) and African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus, n = 18) of the Masai Mara, Kenya, was carried out. Rabies antibodies were found in 9.6% of the domestic dog sera, but all wild dog and hyaena sera were negative. Rabies has been confirmed in this region among the above species as well...

The postural adjustment which accompanies single limb movement in the standing cat and dog was analyzed. Four trays equipped with strain gauges were used for measuring the vertical forces exerted by each limb before and during movement performance. Three types of movements were analyzed: flexion movements elicited by motor cortex stimulation, placing movements, conditioned movements of either f...

We performed histological and histochemical investigations on the gastric glands of cats and dogs. So-called cardiac glands in the cat and dog have a small number of the parietal cells and the PAS-positive glandular cells in the base of these glands contain fine pepsinogen granules. Consequently, we consider them as undifferentiated gastric glands, and can find no differences between these glan...

While traditionally people relinquish their pets to an animal shelter or pound, the internet provides a newer method to re-home. We analyzed advertisements (ads) on the largest website in Australia for trading dogs and cats: Gumtree. Data was collected in 2016. Dogs were sampled on 7, 16 and 24 February 2016 and cats on 9, 19 and 26 February 2016, with 2640 ads for relinquished dogs, and 2093 a...

1. The method of Kekwick & Mackay (1954) for the fractionation of human plasma protems was used successfully for the separation of the serum proteins ofguinea pig, rat, rabbit, cat, dog, monkey, ox, horse and sheep. 2. By variations in pH, ionic strength, temperature and solvent concentration, three fractions consisting essentially of a mixture of xand #globulins (G2); y-globulin (G 3) and albu...

To investigate the distribution, shape and stainability of the ACTH cells from human, baboon, monkey, cat, dog, rat, mouse, hamster, guinea pig, white-toothed shrew, house musk shrew and mole pituitaries, adjacent tissue sections were immunostained with anti-porcine ACTH1-39 serum and with PAS-ironhematoxylin respectively. Mammalian ACTH cells display two separate morphological appearances :1) ...

Theoretically, homogeneous environments favor the evolution of specialists whereas heterogeneous environments favor generalists. Canine distemper is a multi-host carnivore disease caused by canine distemper virus (CDV). The described cell receptor of CDV is SLAM (CD150). Attachment of CDV hemagglutinin protein (CDV-H) to this receptor facilitates fusion and virus entry in cooperation with the f...