The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), over the last 3 years has globally resulted in catastrophic widespread losses. Prevention and control of this disease become a global priority for researchers medical professionals due to high mortality rates, treatment costs various losses (economic fatalities). In recent times, fact that cats dogs living households which are being affected by caused pa...

NUMBERS of sheep, goats, pigs, chicken, dogs and cats classified as adult males, females young were counted in Eruwa Ibarapa Division, Oyo State, Nigeria its associated villages during July August 1974. Counts involved a total 1975 households, 769 the town 506 villages; 9.42 per cent kept 58.44 4.32 88.00 chickens, 28.16 27.38 cats. Means animals household 4.59 3.58 11.95 14.73 1.89 1.62 cats; ...

A number of authors suggest that children exhibit a natural interest towards animals, and different intervention programs have shown the presence of an animal being able to increase children’s attentiveness and motivation levels. Nonetheless, few research efforts have been devoted to the identification of specific animal characteristics able to attract and engage children. It has been hypothesi...

INTRODUCTION Renal foods are used to manage chronic kidney disease (CKD) in dogs and cats, but their effectiveness may be limited by the ability to transition animals to them. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a prospective study, pet cats with previously undiagnosed kidney disease (20 International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) 1, 61 IRIS 2, 14 IRIS 3/4, 33 at risk for CKD) were transitioned to a rena...

Positron emission tomography (PET) provides a means of studying physiological and pharmacological processes as they occur in the living brain. Mice, rats, dogs, cats, pigs and non-human primates are often used in studies using PET. They are commonly anaesthetized with ketamine, propofol or isoflurane in order to prevent them from moving during the imaging procedure. The use of anaesthesia in PE...