Happy Healthy Handsome Hounds

1. Happy Healthy Handsome Hounds Charissa Smith BVSc Acacia Animal Care 2008

3. All beings are entitled to their own dreaming: Peggy Fleming, W.A. Aboriginal artist Your Dreaming or the Dog Dreaming

4. That is people want reassurance and safety and don’t want to worry…something easy, rather than uncertainty and a bit of hard work…which is why fast food isn’t fast enough…someone else has done all the thinking.  E.g. vaccinate every year rather than visit your vet and think about more complicated stuff like diet and exercise! But just like diet and the consequences in humans, so do the animals suffer..  there is no free ride! That is people want reassurance and safety and don’t want to worry…something easy, rather than uncertainty and a bit of hard work…which is why fast food isn’t fast enough…someone else has done all the thinking.  E.g. vaccinate every year rather than visit your vet and think about more complicated stuff like diet and exercise! But just like diet and the consequences in humans, so do the animals suffer..  there is no free ride! Certainty : Security Does it exist? Do we question? If so, what is the price? Reassurance and Safety versus Uncertainty and Harder Work Maslow

5. Health Maintenance The guiding star of life Of which we are all a part.

6. Health Maintenance • Disease prevention: • The chemical load……….. • Vaccination • Worms/ Protozoa: Heart and Intestines • Fleas/ Lice / Mites • Ticks

7. Health Maitenance • Breeding: • Performance: Appearance • Appearance : Health • Disease prevention • Gene pool • AI and Technical change • Drug modification

8. Health Maintenance • Food: Breed and Lifestyle • Fresh • Organic • Dry • Vegetarian

9. Health Maintenance • Nurture: Breed and Lifestyle • Exercise • Shelter • Hygiene • Companionship

10. Vaccination • Distemper : Herpes … 3 vaccines /life, lcyte suppression • Mixed viruses • Parvo: Enterovirus… Huge fluctuations, mixed causal pathology, 2c only partially covered by present vaccine • Hepatitis: Adenovirus …CAV1 and 2 ?1 vaccine per life • Corona virus: Fluctuates, mixed causal pathology • Leptospirosis: Spirochaete: Unkown • Kennel cough: Mixed causality Virus and Bacteria • Rabies: Lyssa virus… yearly, travelling • Tetanus: Bacteria 5 yearly ?

11. 3 years • Duration of immunity for canine and feline vaccines: a review • Authors:Ronald D Schultz • Journal: Veterinary Microbiology • In our studies aimed at assessing the minimum duration of vaccinal immunity (DOI), approximately 1000 dogs have been vaccinated with products from all the major US veterinary biological companies. The DOI for the various products is determined by antibody titers for all dogs and, by challenge studies in selected groups of dogs. Recently, all major companies that make canine vaccines for the U.S. market have completed their own studies; published data show a 3 years or longer minimum DOI for the canine core products, canine distemper virus (CDV), canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2), and canine adenovirus-2 (CAV-2). Studies with feline core vaccines - feline parvovirus (FPV), calicivirus (FCV) and herpes virus type I (FHV-1) have shown a minimum DOI of greater than 3 years. Based on these results, the current canine and feline guidelines (which recommend that the last dose of core vaccines be given to puppies and kittens > or =12 weeks of age or older, then revaccination again at 1 year, then not more often than every 3 years) should provide a level of protection equal to that achieved by annual revaccination. In contrast, the non-core canine and feline vaccines, perhaps with the exception of feline leukaemia vaccines, provide immunity for < or =1 year. In general the effectiveness of the non-core products is less than the core products. Thus, when required, non-core vaccines should be administered yearly, or even more frequently. • 01/11/2006; 117(1):75-9.I

12. References mixed vaccine • Effects of vaccines on the canine immune system. • T R Phillips, J L Jensen, M J Rubino, W C Yang, and R D Schultz • Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706. • Can J Vet Res. 1989 April; 53(2): 154–160.

13. Immunity • Immunity increases by continual exposure • Immunity can drop with stress( change)/ weakness • Organisms get stronger the more animals they infect: passage

14. Vaccination Progamms • Distemper Hepatitis and Parvo • 10 and 14 weeks • 12-15 months • 7 years of age • Not under 8 weeks • Yearly titre tests : QML all but PI and BT • 3 year vaccination • not under 6 weeks

15. Vaccination :Kennel cough: • killed by Heat and steam, quaternary ammonium • Vaccine contains: CAV2, Para Influenza and Bordatella • Caused by CDV, CAV2, P inf, and Bordatella

16. Vaccination: Leptospira..spirochaete bacteria: Infects humans and 2.5% healthy dogs:AVJ Zwijnenberg RJG et al 2008 vol 86 p317 22 serotypes , mixed infectionsSurvival: water or fluids, moderate temperatures around 25 C (77 degrees F) and neutral or slightly alkaline pH. eg Stagnant water or slowly flowing streams , flooded conditions. Killed by dry very quickly Yearly vaccination before summerUrine-soaked soil six monthsMilk from infected dairy cows

17. Simple Puppy Vaccination Regime • Puppy: Choice 10 and 14 weeks C3 • 18 weeks Kennel cough: Parainfluenza and Bordatella • 22 weeks Parainfluenza ( Novotec Vaccine , no Hepatitis) • Never under 6 weeks • AT Risk: transport, leaving home early • 6weeks C3, 10 weeks C4 plus Bordatella 14 weeks…C4 plus Bordatella • 8 weeks C3 12 weeks C4 plus Bordatella, 16 weeks…C4 plus Bordatella • : Avoid double dose of hepatitis vaccine

18. From then On • Titre tests Yearly: These are available for all diseases except para influenza and bordatella. If the titre test is low, parvo particularly can be of concern, boost the immune system herbally/ homeopathically and retest, or vaccinate if there is an imminent risk. Any hepatitis or distemper titre means the animal is immune. • Costs approximately: • Consulting fee: $44 • Taking blood: $40 • Lab accession fee covers all blood sent at the one time: $40 Cost of titre test: approx $50 per disease

19. Leptospirosis • Puppies at risk only first vaccine 16 weeks then two more 3 weeks apart. This vaccine can have both liver and kidney side effects. Do not give with other vaccines. Greater risk than kennel cough if there is a big contamination. • then • Twice yearly vaccination with the correct vaccine for the type of leptospirosis in your area, ask your vet. Titre test first. • Cold and dry kill this organism. Dry out all rat affected areas if possible. • Or 1 month before the beginning of the rainy season, if there is a defined dry season.

20. Corona Virus • Only at risk intensive situations where there is a build up of fecal contamination and a hisory of debilitating diarrhoa in puppies. • This is not common • If it is occurring it is a sign of inadequate immune systems. • This vaccine should not be given within 2 weeks of other vaccines. It is not needed in healthy adults, and • Will not stop the cause if there is an immune system problem.

21. Tetanus • Only to dogs under 6 months when very high risk, hunting, pig baiting with horses • Vaccine dose 6 months, then a month later sub cut, then in 12 months then every 5 years. • However not recommended as horse based protein, and can cause reactions when given other horse based serum eg tick and snake antivenine, • Dogs have generally high resistance to tetanus • Titre test before vaccinating even if at risk.

22. Holistic Medicine • Rescue remedy : Flower and Shell essences • Homeopathic Medicine: Viral Prevention and Treatment, Immune and Behavior: Ultradilute • Herbal Medicine • Nutriceuticals

23. Jean Dodds and Thyroid Pannel • Vaccine reactions and autoimmunity • Prevalence and Relevance • Thyroiditis as a breed autoimmune marker

24. Breeding • Disease testing • Disease register • Breeding certificates for registered breeders • And for Health and Breeding certificates • For their dogs • Widening the gene pool • AI, technical alterations and implications

25. Food • Fresh • Organic: Environmental contamination • Dry food: Wet Preserved

26. Food • Energy versus Protein • Fat versus Muscle • The Importance of Fat, Vegetables and CHO: Exercise and Breed • The importance of change : gut bacteria and the seasons • “Fresh food for Dogs and Cats “ Clare Middle

27. Nurture • Relaxation: to be • or not to be

28. Nurture Exercise: Age and Stage Type of Person

29. Companionship: Language Separation Pack structure Homeopathic medicines

30. Nurture • Shelter • Grooming • Hygiene

31. Rascal experiencing hygienecompanionship and exercise

32. Chief White Cloud. It is the duty of man to preserve the earth and the creations of the great spirit, mankind being but a grain of sand in the holy circle which encloses all life.