Sentences with phrase «dogs for diseases»

The OFA CAER exam is designed to screen dogs for diseases of the eye that have been proven or are suspected to have a heritable - genetic component.

Meanwhile annual revaccination of dogs for diseases such as parvovirus remains rife in Australia.

Many breeders and vets are quick to say that it is due to bad genetics — so good breeders screen their dogs for these diseases before breeding, to make sure the problems are not passed down to the offspring.

What goes around comes back around; when the studies are complete and screening tests become available, breeders complete the circle by screening dogs for diseases, enrolling dogs in health registries, and planning breedings based on health profiles.

The Goldendoodle Breeders and Labradoodle Breeders listed here are the most conscientious, reputable and ethical breeders; those who care enough about the Goldendoodle puppies and Labradoodle puppies that they produce, and most importantly, you, their client to GENETICALLY TEST THEIR DOGS FOR THE DISEASES INHERIT IN THE BREED, and this means really test their Goldendoodle and Labradoodle breeding stock.

Unless you get a puppy from a breeder who has screened their breeding dogs for these diseases, there's no way to prevent them from occurring.

The American Heartworm Society has declared April Heartworm Awareness month to help raise visibility around the importance of testing dogs for this disease.

The CEA / CH genetic test provides the life - long genetic status of a dog for this disease.

If your veterinarian diagnoses elbow dysplasia, there is also an increased risk of having concurrent hip dysplasia (and vice versa), so make sure to ask your veterinarian to screen your dog for both diseases.

And many responsible breeders test all their dogs for this disease, before they consider breeding from them.

Breeders are required to test dogs for the disease, which has virtually been eradicated from the breed because of testing and breeding selection.

«Lepto likes warm, wet weather and we've got that to a T,» said Dr. Cathy Langston, a renal specialist with the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan, which is treating three dogs for the disease.

If you have any questions about whether your dog has enough immunity to a disease you can ask your veterinarian to titre your dog for the disease.

Vaccines are not expensive, but treating your dog for the diseases will prevent treating them at a vet, which is very costly.

Diane understands that Lepto and Bordetella need to be given at least yearly to be effective, but has made the decision not to re-vaccinate her dog for those diseases at this time and understands the risk.

«The typical Chinese method is to stop trucks, then test dogs for disease, but they've been doing this for the last 5 - 10 years,» he asserted.

Not exact matches

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

The study concludes that comprehensive screening for canine inherited disorders represents an efficient and powerful diagnostic and research discovery tool that has a range of applications in veterinary care, disease research, and dog breeding.

Precisely as we humans, every dog is likely to carry genetic predisposition for some inherited disorder, so we expect these numbers to grow as the numbers of tested disease variants, breeds, and dogs further increase, confirms Dr. Donner.

And a dog genome sequence has made the animals an even more useful model by quickening the search for disease - causing genes.

Dogs already serve as models for diseases such as narcolepsy, certain cancers and blindness.

CARMICHAEL REPLIES: Vaccinating animals is an intriguing idea and one that is clearly more applicable for vector - borne diseases with nonhuman reservoirs (for example, vaccinating dogs to control both canine and human visceral leishmaniasis transmission).

That is the case in another rare contagious cancer, canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), a sexually transmitted disease in dogs traced to a single animal now dead for millennia.

The findings suggest that although wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

«While further research is needed to conclusively demonstrate a link, the dog may indeed be a sentinel for humans — it shares the same environment, exhibits the same range of diseases, many with the same frequency and responds in a similar way to therapies.»

While canine distemper has been known for many years as a problem affecting domestic dogs, the virus has been appearing in new areas and causing disease and mortality in a wide range of wildlife species, including tigers and lions.

In May, Columbia University Medical Center pathologist W. Ian Lipkin and his colleagues identified a hepatitis C — like virus in dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticated.

«There's a lot of literature that points to chondrodystrophy in dogs as an exciting animal model for degenerative disc disease in people,» said Bannasch, who also holds the Maxine Adler Endowed Chair in Genetics.

Being able to identify dogs with this genetic susceptibility could provide a valuable tool for owners, breeders and veterinarians for mitigating the risk of intervertebral disc herniation and resulting spinal cord disease.

The teams» three papers, each on Nordic dogs (Swedish Vallhund and Norwegian Elkhound) and each addressing blinding ocular diseases affecting both dogs and people, identified genes causing retinal disease and glaucoma, which may lead to gene therapies for dogs and humans.

Work on gene therapy is showing significant progress for restoring muscle strength and prolonging lives in dogs with a previously incurable, inherited neuromuscular disease.

Because dogs suffer from many of the same afflictions that can strike people — cancer, heart disease and diabetes, among them — the authors hope that Fidos genome will help narrow the search for disease - causing genes in his owner.

«There are human diseases for which we have dog models,» she says.

«The dog is an invaluable model for exploring hereditary copper - storage diseases, and observations made in this study will benefit both canine and human patient populations.»

Inherited diseases, for example are a serious problem in purebred dogs.

Using a genome - wide approach in a new dog model for copper toxicosis, a team of researchers led by Hille Fieten have now revealed that mutations in a copper transporter gene, ATP7A, can ameliorate symptoms of the disease.

Throughout their analysis of plague in prairie dogs, they concluded that such diseases may «smolder» unnoticed in a population for years, rather than jump from species to species immediately before an outbreak.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

«Plague - riddled prairie dogs a model for infectious disease spread.»

Having shared the environment with humans ever since its appearance, the dog has been exposed to similar pathogens, and therefore represents an important model system for the study of human diseases.

The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a wild canid found in East Asia and Europe, represents a potential wildlife reservoir for zoonotic diseases.

Big donors, for their part, prefer to work on diseases with a higher death toll or believe that reaching enough dogs is too complicated.

Coupled with the dog domestication bottleneck, this likely simplified the genetic architecture of quantitative traits, including complex disease phenotypes that are not fixed within breeds and were not the subject of selection for novelty.

Gene therapy shows significant progress for restoring muscle strength and prolonging lives in dogs with an incurable, inherited neuromuscular disease

In contrast, the strongest signals of diversifying selection in dogs are all associated with either body size / shape or hair / pigmentation traits, and therefore are unlikely to have been under selection for disease resistance, metabolic adaptations, or behavior.

But are mice and rats good models for these complex diseases, can depression in dogs really equate with depression in people, and how much does that matter?

The experiment was meant to prove the principle of transgenic animals, particularly dogs, who, due to their lifespan and reproductive cycle, are good stand - ins for human disease research.

«The findings open up a whole new area of research into inflammatory diseases in dogs and humans,» says Kerstin Lindblad Toh, director of the Science for Life Laboratory in Uppsala and a scientific director at the Broad Institute.