Dog Aggression Dog aggression is a character many dogs owners encounter with trepidation. There is no doubt that many dog owners are victims of bites from their own dogs, especially when they try to separate dogs fighting. While there are many others who have been ambushed by an aggressive dog. There are animal factors like Hereditary or Genetic and Environmental factors that play a major role in dog aggression. Animal factors include Breeds like Rottweiler […]

Spaying and Neutering Rabbits Rabbits can reproduce many times in a year and for those who keep them as pets, this can be challenging to take care of this rapidly increasing population. In addition, sexual aggression is common and this can be eliminated by castration of the male rabbit (buck) or spaying the female rabbit (doe). Spayed doe is likely to live longer and this reduces chances of them getting uterine cancer, compared to unspayed […]

Feline Leukemia virus (FeLV) Feline Leukemia virus affects cats and is related to FIV or HIV, However, it does not affect human beings. Like, FIV which is mostly transmitted through cats bites (common in male cats when they go hunting for a molly or queen), FeLV is more contagious and is passed though sharing of food or water or litter box with an infected cat. Prolonged grooming increases the risk of infection between cats, however, […]

Toxoplasmosis in Cats We received a call from a lady who was expectant and had been tested positive for Toxoplasma gondii infection. She was very concerned that her dogs could have passed this infection to her; she does not own any cat. During the telephone conversation, she mentioned that stray cats occasionally come to her compound. Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii and it affects all warm blooded animals and causes problem for […]

Trypanosomiasis in Horses This is a blood and tissue parasite which also has the ability to invade the nervous system. High levels of parasitaemia are seen in horses, camels and dogs. Although it also affects other animals including livestock (cattle, sheep and goats) buffaloes and pigs. Trypanosomiasis is caused by a protozoan parasite Trypanosoma evansi and T. equiperdum  The disease is transmitted by tsetse flies inoculating parasite with its saliva into a horse. Other modes of transmission […]