Every year, billions of animals are slaughtered on industrial agricultures and whose status does not include under the category protected stray dogs or cats subjected to various kinds abusive behavior by human as a result moral exclusion certain species. The idea speciesism anthropocentrism causes suffering massive scale that people may find hard fathom. This paper discusses definition speciesi...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the analytic sensitivity of microscopic detection of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts and the environmental loading of T gondii oocysts on the basis of prevalence of shedding by owned and unowned cats. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SAMPLE POPULATION 326 fecal samples from cats. PROCEDURES Fecal samples were collected from cat shelters, veterinary clinics, cat-owning househ...

Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease of worldwide distribution. A cross-sectional study was conducted in urban and rural environments in southern Chile (1) to detect domestic cats with serologic evidence of exposure to Leptospira spp.; (2) to determine the prevalence of anti-Leptospira antibodies; (3) to describe seroprevalences according to different characteristics of the animals, an...

A serological survey of feline immunodeficiency virus and Toxoplasma gondii in stray cats.Pedersen B, et al. Risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection in pregnancy: results of a prospective case-control study in Norway. Prevalence of feline leukemia virus infection and serum antibodies against feline immun-odeficiency virus in unowned free-roaming cats. A, et al. Prevalence of ectoparasites ...

BACKGROUND Exenatide extended release (ER) is a glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue that increases insulin secretion, inhibits glucagon secretion and induces satiation in humans with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The use of exenatide ER is safe and stimulates insulin secretion in healthy cats. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to assess the safety of exenatide ER and its effect on body weigh...

Free-roaming cats are exposed to a variety of risks, including involvement in road traffic accidents. One way of mitigating these risks is to contain cats, for example using an electronic boundary fence system that delivers an electric 'correction' via a collar if a cat ignores a warning cue and attempts to cross the boundary. However, concerns have been expressed over the welfare impact of suc...

BACKGROUND Hypercalcemia is commonly associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats. OBJECTIVES To explore the calcitonin response to naturally occurring ionized hypercalcemia in cats with azotemic CKD, and to assess the relationship of plasma calcitonin with ionized calcium, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and urinary calcium excretion. ANIMALS Thirty-three client-owned cats with azotemi...

The goal of this study was to assess SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in pet dogs and cats during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic Iraq. Serum samples were collected from 180 animals, including 96 84 cats. All animals included owned a household with at least one COVID-19 patient. screened for antibodies against using commercial ELISA assay (ID Screen® Double Antigen Multi-species) according...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Accelerometry is used as an objective measure of physical activity in humans and veterinary species. In cats, one important use of accelerometry is in the study of therapeutics designed to treat degenerative joint disease (DJD) associated pain, where it serves as the most widely applied objective outcome measure. These analyses have commonly used summary measures, ca...

BACKGROUND Maine coon cats have a familial disposition for developing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with evidence of an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance 1. The current mode to diagnose HCM is by use of echocardiography. However, definite reference criteria have not been established. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of echocardigraphic changes consistent with ...