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DAP changes formulation and name
| Ceva has announced that starting in the fourth quarter of 2011, the DAP product line will be changing.
The product line will now be called Adaptil. The first change will be to the pheromone collar. The collar is larger, made of a more flexible material, is notched for proper sizing and has a newly designed buckle. In addition, the concentration of pheromone analogue has increased from 2.5% to 5%, but the company states that the efficacy will be the same.
The rest of the product line will undergo the conversion in early 2012.
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Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline, fifth edition, Larry Tilly and Francis Smith
Did you know that the 5 Minute Veterinary Consult has 30 behavior topics? Each topic has been rewritten and updated in 2011 to reflect the most recent research and treatments for behavioral disorders.
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| FAQs | |
My clients frequently ask me what to do about dogs who beg at the table. Any quick answers?
Short term:
1) Put the dog in a crate/outside/in another room when eating meals.
2) Feed the dog her dinner while eating meals.
3) Use food toys to keep the dog busy during the entire mealtime.
4) Don't feed the dog from the table.
Long-term:
1) Teach the dog to stay on a mat away from the table during meals.
2) Use the Manners Minder remote controlled food dispenser to keep the dog on a mat or a bed away from the table during meals.
3) Never feed the dog from the table.
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| Volume: 5, No: 1 | Quarter 1, 2012 |
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I often see other veterinarians recommending melatonin supplementation for dogs with anxiety problems. Do you recommend this? Is it as effective as using something such as Anxitane (Virbac).
Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone which can be used for anxiety or sleep disorders. It can be especially helpful in older dogs, dogs on multiple medications, dogs who are limited as to which medications they can take due to medical diseases and dogs with mild anxiety,
Melatonin is not comparable to Anxitane. Anxitane is L-Theanine. It is a glutamate antagonist and also increases levels of GABA in the brain. It has been shown to have anxiolytic properties in dogs and cats.
Melatonin works fairly quickly so it can be used for situational anxieties and Anxitane takes 2-4 weeks to work so you would use it more when you want to have something on board 24/7.
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From the journals
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Prevalence of owner-reported behaviours in dogs separated from the litter at two different ages
Pierantoni L, Albertini M, Pirrone F. Veterinary Record 2011;169:468
The authors examined two groups of dogs (n=140) via an owner survey. One group had been separated from the dam and littermates at 4-5.5 weeks and the second group had been separated at 8 weeks. Within the groups, dogs were separated into dogs purchased from pet stores and those adopted from other sources.
Dogs in the group who had been separated earlier were significantly more likely to display the following behaviors: destructiveness, excessive barking, fearfulness on walks, reactivity to noises, toy possessiveness, food possessiveness and attention-seeking.
In addition, dogs purchased from a pet shop at 4-5.5 weeks exhibited some of the negative behaviors significantly more frequently than dogs purchased from a pet shop at two months. These differences were not seen in dogs purchased from other sources.
Clinical impact: This study supports earlier literature concluding that pups should stay with their litter until 8 weeks of age. This study also showed a higher risk of behavior problems in pups adopted from pet stores. When advising a client as to the cause of their pet's behavior, the veterinarian should consider the age at which a pup was separated from the litter and the source from which it was adopted.
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From the journals
| Agonistic behavior and environmental enrichment of cats communally housed in a shelter
Dantas-Divers LMS, Crowell-Davis SL, Alford K, et al. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2011;239:796-802
In this study, 27 group housed, shelter cats were studied. The authors used video recorded data to analyze the effects of puzzle feeders (food toys) on the interactions of the cats. Thirty percent of agonistic (aggressive) interactions were related to resources prior to the addition of a puzzle feeder to the environment. The addition of a puzzle feeder didn't affect the level of aggression despite the fact that there was food (a resource) inside.
Clinical impact: Environmental enrichment is a huge part of treating intercat aggression. It is unlikely that the addition of enrichment which includes food will increase resource type aggression.
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