Sentences with phrase «than in dogs»

In the early 1980s there were more reports of rabies in cats than in dogs.

In fact, the process by which a cat becomes heartworm positive is very different than in dogs, but we'll discuss that in another blog post.

The number of worms found in a cat is generally lower than in a dog, but only a few worms can cause severe disease.

And of course this can also happen in cats, although less frequently than in dogs.

Dog owners are currently less interested in a dog that has the potential to bite than in a dog that's friendly and tolerant, even with strangers.

While the heartworm parasite follows the same general path to adulthood in a feline host, it is a much harder and less successful journey than in the dog.

Second, testing for heartworm disease in cats is performed differently than in dogs.

Testing for heartworm infections in cats is much harder to do than in dogs since cats are not the natural host for heartworms.

The prognosis in cats is much more guarded than in dogs.

Heart disease is less common in cats than in dogs.

Cats usually have seizures that occur more frequently than those in dogs.

Treating adult heartworms in cats is more difficult than in dogs.

In unspayed female cats, mammary gland tumors are less common than in dogs, but 85 % are cancerous and deadly.

The majority of dogs with obsessive tail chasing in the recent study were found to suffer from high cholesterol, with HDL and LDL cholesterol both significantly higher than in dogs that only chased their tails on occasion.

«Once stem cells can be established it may be possible to learn about the genetic basis of traits by studying cells in a dish rather than in the dogs themselves,» he says.

Recurrent or chronic ear infections are more commonly seen in dogs with food allergies than in dogs with other types of allergies — also, very young dogs suffering from severe skin problems are often victims of food allergies.

The rarest form of the disorder, Type III von Willebrand's disease, may be more common in German short - haired pointers than in dogs of other breeds.

Ringworm is seen in cats more often than in dogs.

Excessive supplementation (> 3 % calcium [dry - matter basis]-RRB- causes more severe signs of osteochondrosis and decreased skeletal remodeling in young, rapidly growing large - breed dogs than in dogs fed diets with lower dietary calcium (1 % — 3 % [dry - matter basis]-RRB-.

Labour's panda strategy — relying on a core vote, bruised by austerity and better motivated than in the dog days of 2010, plus Lib Dem defectors and Tory defectors to UKIP — may be effective even if it is far from magnificent.

Feline arthritis is less diagnosed than in dogs because the symptoms are missed.»

Although there is no evidence to demonstrate their effectiveness in the management of feline heartworm disease, 6 there is also no reason to suspect that they would be any less effective than in dogs.

This is perhaps more controversial in cats than in dogs due to the phenomenon commonly referred to as vaccine associated feline sarcomas.

The vascular disease in cats that occurs when the L5 larvae invade the pulmonary arteries is more severe than in dogs.

Iris cysts occur less commonly in cats than in dogs however, in cats, they are more likely to cause problems that require treatment.

The response to surgical correction of a congenital PSS in cats appears to be less encouraging than in dogs.

It means that they happen to have retained a large number of those SNPs that are more common in wolves than in dogs.

The virus reproduces much more rapidly at the puppy's lower body temperature than in dogs that can mount a fever.

Giardiasis in cats, while less often recognized than in dogs, is contagious.

Heartworm characteristics: Heartworms in cats are shorter than those in dogs, averaging 8 - 9 inches in length.

In other dogs the tapetum may be more gray color and less reflective than in dogs with a bright yellow tapetum.

Feline dental disease, for example, manifests in different ways than in dogs; and the list of probable causes for a coughing cat is not the same as it is for dogs.

HEARTWORM DISEASE IN CATS is different than in dogs on many levels.

Heartworms in cats tend to be smaller than those in dogs and have a shorter lifespan (2 to 3 years).

Heartworms require a blood test, but diagnosis in cats is more difficult than in dogs.

Skin infections are less common than in dogs.

Although most people tend to think of this as primarily a dog disease, in the past few decades the number of cases of rabies in cats have been much higher than that in dogs.

Cholangitis and cholangiohepatitis usually occur together as a complex or syndrome (CCHC or CCHS) and is much more common in cats than in dogs.

Deficiency: Vitamin E deficiency is more likely to cause a variety of severe health problems in food animals rather than in dogs and cats.

Infection rates in cats are lower than in dogs, but the disease may be more common than previously estimated.

Heartworm infection in cats is harder to detect than in dogs.

Heartworm infection in cats is very different than in dogs, but it still has the potential to be just as deadly.

Incubation in the cat is generally less than in the dog and is typically three to eight weeks.

Tumors arising from the salivary glands are uncommon, although slightly more common in cats than in dogs.

Thus, atrial fibrillation is much less common in cats than in dogs.