doi:10.1002/9781118704738.app13Canine body condition scoreJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,Veterinary Forensics: Animal Cruelty Investigations
Simple Summary Overweight is a growing problem in dogs worldwide and negative health effects associated with excess body weight are common. The body condition score (BCS) scale is a time- and resource-effective method to assess if a dog is overweight, but its precision among dog owners has be...
body condition scorecanine mammary tumourcancer-specific survivalimmunohistochemistryobesityObesity has been identified as a risk factor for developing breast cancer in post‐menopausal period in humans and has been suspected to be associated with a worse prognosis also in the bitch. The aims of this ...
Effects of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis ) on body condition and activity of free-ranging coyotes (Canis latrans - Sacks, Blejwas - 2000 () Citation Context ...nia coyotes. Canine heartworm is a geographically invasive parasite of significance to some domestic pets, wildlife populations ...
a reasonable level of vision and a body condition score ≤ 4; must not be on high dose oral corticosteroids and must pass a veterinary ‘fitness for trial’ checklist. Dogs must not suffer from any behavioural, medical or neurological condition which may present with similar clinical signs...
In terms of Yorkshire Terrier intelligence, they score above average in obedience and working intelligence and have exceptional instinctive intelligence. They can easily recognize their owners’ emotions and are highly attuned to their needs. However, they may only sometimes adapt well to changes in ...
The maximum obtainable LOD score for linkage in this pedigree was 3.5, which was well above the canonical significance threshold value of 3. Fig. 2 Family relations of part of the study sample. DNA was available for the letter-indicated individuals Full size image MLPH genotyping To evaluate ...
When possible, relevant individual data, such as sex, weight and body condition score (BCS), were recorded during post-mortem examination. The age of each fox undergoing post-mortem examination at the RDSVS was estimated on the basis of size, body weight and dentition. To allow data to be...
Dogs with a body condition score (BCS) of 0 were defined as asymptomatic; those with a score of 1–2, paucisymptomatic; those with a score of 3–6, oligosymptomatic; and animals with a score of 7–14, polisymptomatic. In light of the IFAT results (see below) and considering their ...
The number of Iba1+, MHC II+, GFAP+, vimentin+, CD3+ and Pax5+ cells were analyzed semi-quantitatively in each brain region: (score 0 = no immunoreactivity; 1 = single foci/cells, < 5%; 2 = multifocal reactivity, 5–30%; 3 = multifocal to diffuse reactiv...