Canine parvovirus

Animal testing is a very controversial topic. People have many different views on it, but the most important are whether animals should be used for testing products or not.There are many pros and cons in using animals for testing. Animals are being used to test products that are for commercial use and people believe that using them is safer than using the human body. Some people believe it is good that animals are used to test products instead of humans, while others believe that it is bad to…

exposure, severity of disease or transmissibility to humans. (ASPCA ) 1. 5-in-1 and Leptospirosis are usually mixed together into is one injection, but cover multiple diseases. If not given these vaccines, diseases that can infect the dog include, Canine distemper, which is highly contagious and often fatal viral disease spread through the air, CAV 1 and…

It can be hard to resist that puppy you see for sale in the window of a pet shop. But a closer look into how these stores obtain these animals reveals a horrifying truth behind puppy mills. There is an enormous demand for purebred puppies in the United States. Approximately 44.8 million American homes have at least one dog as a pet (APPMA). Roughly 90 % of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills (PAWS). There are thousands upon thousands of homeless dogs throughout the United States who need…

When it comes to the topic of animal testing, most of us will readily agree that it is a very debatable discussion. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question whether it helps researchers to find new drugs and treatments suitable for humans. Whereas some are convinced that animal testing does help researchers find new effective drugs and treatments, others maintain that some drugs tested on animals are ineffective or even safe for human consumption. In my perspective the…

diseases. Most shelters will say to not put your hands in the cages, this is to prevent upper respiratory infection and kennel cough, because not every dog there will have the greatest immune system. Other diseases like feline panleukopenia, canine parvovirus, Lyme disease, and heartworm are all factors and extremely expensive to treat. Pet store animals don’t carry these diseases which is an upside, but that is because they only sell new puppies that weren 't saved from the streets. Shelters do…

Does it seem like your fur baby sleeps a lot? In fact all dogs, regardless of size or breed tend to sleep most of the time and we got an explanation about that. It is safe to say that huge part of their lives are spent being asleep. Dogs tend to sleep half the day away and are only active about 20% of the day. Unlike human, dogs don’t have the same sleeping patterns and their patterns vary according to different factors not to mention that they have heightened senses which make them alert most…

FPV is in the family Parvoviridae, which contains 26 species of virus that infect a broad host range, covering species from invertebrates to humans. Parvoviruses are small single stranded DNA viruses enveloped by a T=1 non-enveloped capsid protein. Replication of these viruses can only occur when the host cell is in S-phase of its mitotic cycle (15). FPV has a very small linear genome that is only 5 kilobases in length (4). The virus’s genome has specific sequences, similar to a TATA boxes, that…

Animal Rights Tilikum was the first owned whale in the Sealand of the Pacific aquarium that was isolated from the other orcas in his own pool; Tilikum was taken from his natural habitat as an adult, and suddenly was forced to make a dramatic change to being in an isolated pool. Because of this dramatic change, it caused Tilikum stress, depression from being alone, and anxiety from being in an enclosed tank instead of having a free amount of miles to roam. This unfair treatment leads to Tilikum…

ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION Vioxx was tested to have a protective effect on hearts of animals, but it caused more than 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths before it was pulled off of the shelf. Animal testing and Experimentation According to humane society international (2015), every year more than 100 million animals are killed in the U.S laboratories for testing and experimentation. The most common animals used for testing are mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters,…

This essay explains whether animal testing should be allowed or not in order to produce cosmetic products by stating the ethical reason to protest and stating existence of the substitution method. This research concludes that animal testing can be both beneficial but also very crucial, should be banned at some point; however, the substitute method has found some defect which leads that medical researchers should modify the substitute method in order to animal testing to be substituted.…