USEFULL INFORMATION

Is your pet poisoned?

Lately, there are more and more cases of poisoning the homeless dogs and cats. Intolerance of some citizens is conducted with non-ethical measures, which, unluckily very often have lethal ends. However, not only the homeless animals are affected. Very often, some of our dear friends – pets find the poison intended for homeless animals. Most often the poison can be bought in the agricultural pharmacies and they are put in a piece of food (most often meat and meat products).

The signs of poisoning appear 10-30 minutes from the moment of taking the poison, in depending on the quantity of food which is in the animal’s stomach at that time. At the beginning appears trembling of muscles with spasm of the chewing muscles, vomiting, foam from the mouth, increased body temperature and diarrhea. If not cured, it almost always ends with death. There is possibility to cure the poisoning provided that the poisoned animal is immediately taken to a vet or the home visit service comes to treat it. As the time goes by, the possibility to save the animal is lessened and the death is an inevitable end. Therefore, if you notice any of the foregoing signs, particularly if your pet had taken food from the street, immediately call the nearest veterinary clinic.

Protection from parasites

There are internal and external parasites.

Internal parasites

The internal parasites can be found in the intestines of the animal. They harm it by using the nutritious substances from the food it takes in.  In addition, they damage the mucous membrane of the intestines causing infection and diarrhea resulting in bad food resorption.

Some of the parasites may even be transmitted to humans. Echinococcosis is the one that may cause serious damages of the people’s health and even to end with death in some cases.

Pets are protected from this parasites by giving them anti-endoparasite drugs on three- month basis.

Ticks and fleas belong to the external parasites. They live on the animal’s skin, feeding with its blood. They may transmit diseases. The most frequently disease transmitted by ticks is the piroplasmosis. It is a blood parasite that destroys the red blood cells and results in blood in urine, high temperature and lethargy of the animal. This disease is not zoonosis. 

Blood sucking may cause allergic skin reactions in some animals.

The pipettes  Frontline®  are used as protection from this type of parasites which is applied on the skin in the neck of the animals (dogs and cats). The protection lasts for 90 days for fleas and 45 days for ticks.

Vaccination, Why is it necessary?

There are many diseases that can impair the health of the home pets (mainly dogs and cats), and some of them can be fatal.  They include: plague-distempter, parvovirosis, infective hepatitis of dogs and panleucopoenia of cats. Here, we can mention the rabies, which apart from the dogs and cats might be dangerous for the humans. Vaccination is administered as protection from such diseases.

The vaccination is administered by a determined scheme as follows:

For dogs:

The first vaccine is at the age of 6 weeks and revaccination at the age of 9 and 12 weeks.
If, due to any reason, the dog is not vaccinated, and it is older than 9 weeks, it shall be given vaccination and revaccination in an interval of 3 weeks.
Young dogs must neither be bathed 14 days from the date of vaccination and each revaccination, nor taken out and have contact with other animals. It is not applied for the regular annual vaccination.

The annual vaccination is obligatory after the latest revaccination.

 

For cats:

The first vaccine is at the age of 6 – 12 weeks and revaccination in 3 - 4 weeks.
If, the cat is older than 12 weeks, it shall be given vaccination and revaccination in an interval of 3-4 weeks.
Young cats must neither be bathed 7 days from the date of revaccination, nor taken out and have contact with other animals.

The annual vaccination is obligatory after the latest revaccination.

 

Rabies

Vaccine against rabieas can be applied 28 days after the latest revaccination and after annual vaccination, both for dogs and for cats. The rabies vaccination is administered once (without revaccination). 

Annual vaccination is obligatory.