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Animal Health July/ougu/t 1980 j m \ Animal Health Volume 11/Number 4 July/August 1980 Cover Photo: "To School Well Fed on Grape Nuts," an advertisement originally lithographed on tin in 1917. Reproduction courtesy of Portal Publications, Corte Madera, CA 94925. STAFF Richard S. Glassberg, D.V.M./Editor Jane Wright/Assoc/are Editor Pat Taketa/Art Director Harry Maiden/C/rcu/arion Manager D. M. Diem/Staff Photographer Dyana Paul/Youth Editor Millwood Custer, D.V.M./ Companion Animals Editor Charles H. Reid. D.V.M./Equine Editor Robert J. Schroeder. D.V.M./ Ecology and Public Health Editor Oscar W. Schalm, D.V.M./ Research Editor FEATURES Wesley A. Young, D.V.M./ Exotic Animals Editor ADVERTISING SALES 5 ANAL SAC PROBLEMS/by Ilka Woods Will Decker, Advertising Director 22312 Kirkwood 6 FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS El Toro. CA 92630 (714) 770-8050 8 DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF CHINA/ TODAY'S ANIMAL HEALTH is published fay H. Epstein bi-monthly by the nonprofit charitable Animal Health Foundation 8338 Rosemead Boulevard 12 TODAY'S ANIMAL DOCTOR/ Pico Rivera, California 90660 fay Robert W. Lucas (213) 257-0724 Single copies $1.50. 6 issue subscription. $6.00. Copyright. 1980, Animal Health 16 FLEAS/fay Warren Walker, D.V.M. Foundation. 20 PASHA THE WONDER DOG, TODAY'S ANIMAL HEALTH is publish ed to inform animal owners about respon FORCE'S FINEST/fay William Overend sible animal ownership and animal health. There are subscribers in all 50 of the United States and in 17 foreign countries. 24 SEEING EYE 1929-1980 The magazine is used as a tool for client education by veterinarians and for educa 29 ANTIFREEZE/fay Carl Nowicki tional purposes in classrooms and school libraries. The ANIMAL HEALTH FOUNDATION DEPARTMENTS supports research in animal health and pet population control. The Foundation also provides free veterinary care to pets 4 DIALOGUE belonging to elderly persons living entirely on social security benefits and those living on Aid to the Totally Disabled in the 11 FOR THE YOUNG Southern California area. This program is made possible through the cooperation of TRAINING YOUR PET RABBIT/ local veterinarians. These activities are fay Sheriil Cobb supported by donations from the public and can be maintained only through your continued financial support. Your con 30 FOR THE YOUNG tributions to the Foundation are tax deduc tible. MISSY/by Peter Breen, Jr. and Brenda Edwards Today's Animal Health Accordingly, will you also please find begins to outgrow its cuddlesome ap dialogue enclosed a check in payment for a one pearance. A study by Robert year subscription to Today's Animal Schneider, DVM (Journal of the Health for my mother. AVMA, Vol. 167, No. 4) found that Yesterday afternoon I was discussing puppies not kept by their owners (Ms.) Alexis A.E. MacLean beyond the animals' first year of life with a friend how much I would like Rochester, NY 14611 the address of an association which have an average length of stay in the aids wild horses. You can imagine my household of 4.4 months. Thus, surprise and pleasure when I I have seen "Today's Animal Health" statistical analysis of the "Christmas "happened" to pick up your magazine often at my "Vets" office, and would pet adoption-and-return syndrome" (that very evening, at a vaccine clinic), like to have my own copy. Your should be based upon the number of and find exactly what I had asked for! publication is very interesting — keep animals received by shelters during up the good work! May. The shelter records referenced in I had a few minutes to glance at your Ms. McDermott's article are, in reality, magazine and managed to write down Richard O. Butler supportive of the viewpoint that an ab your address and the address regard Essex Fells, New Jersey 07021 normal number of pets are acquired ing the wild horses. I was very im on impulse during the Christmas pressed with what little I did see of season. In fact, the two metropolitan your magazine. I first read "Today's Animal Health" in shelters cited by Ms. McDermott I hope in the near future I shall be able our Vet's office and think it's a very recorded their highest monthly totals to subscribe to your magazine regular- fine magazine. of animals received during the month of May. Such a limited statistical sam ly- I look forward to receiving my first copy. ple is inconclusive; however, this data Keep up the excellent work. suggests shelters are correct in taking a Mrs. Judy A. Wright cautious approach toward the adop Mrs. Gail Rector Speedway, In. 46224 tion of animals during the Christmas San Francisco, CA 94116 holidays. With 35 years of intense interest and Contrary to Ms. McDermott's conten I picked up a copy of "Today's Animal cat breeding behind me, I have a large tion, most animal shelters do not Health" the other day when I took my following of cat lovers and feel that counsel people against gift pets. dog to the vet — it is an excellent, in altho they all can't or won't subscribe Rather, The Humane Society of the teresting and fascinating magazine. I'm to your great magazine, I have to run United States, as well as other agen very impressed and only disappointed out to my copying service and re cies, advise the public not to give I didn't know of it sooner. produce the material for them. In this animals as surprise gifts to unexpecting Please add me to your list of last November, December issue, I friends who may be unprepared for subscribers — thank you. made duplicates of "Feline Infectious the arrival of a puppy or kitten. The Peritonitis" and "Feeding and Care of HSUS also recommends against in Sandy Frankie the Cat." troducing a pet into a new home on Phoenix, Arizona 85023 Christmas since the festivities of the I had a bad time finding in day may distract a family's attention Your magazine "Today's Animal Metropolitan Detroit, veterinarians from the animal. Health" is an excellent reference guide that knew how and where to go for for those of us taking Animal Science those F.I.P. tests. The HSUS encourages prospective courses. pet owners to adopt a dog or cat at Cats of Dalai Christmas from their local animal All articles have been very informative Berkley, MI 48072 shelters. We believe it important, for me when helping the neighbors however, that special preparations be give their cats pills, assisting with all Tests for Feline Infectious Peritonitis made for the arrival of a Christmas pet kinds of horse problems and watching are done by Veterinary Disease so that it will properly adjust to its new my own animal's health. Laboratory, 27635 Forbes Road, home. Keep up the good work and I'm look Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 and other ing forward to receiving my next veterinary laboratories. -ed. Guy R. Hodge issues. Director, Research & Data The Humane Society of the United Mary C. McPheeterse In the November/December issue of States Tucson, Arizona 85719 Today's Animal Health Shirley 2100 L Street, N.W. McDermott erred in her criticism of Washington, D.C. 20037 "the standard humane society attitude Enclosed please find my renewal slip toward Christmas pets." Ms. for your magazine Today's Animal McDermott incorrectly assumes that I find this magazine rewarding in my Health. I shall NOT be renewing this the impulse buying of. Christmas pets work as a veterinarian asst. as well as a subscription for myself. I am a biologist should be reflected in a rise in the lover of animals. by profession and simply find your ar number of unwanted animals relin ticles too simplistic. However, I do ap quished to shelters during January, preciate the job you are trying to do February and March. It is probable that Robin M. Miller and believe that for the layman your a new owner's infatuation with a pup Westminster, MD 21157 journal is excellent. py or kitten will last until the animal 4 Today's Animal Health ANAL SAC PROBLEMS Do you have a "Scooting" Dog? by Ilka Woods Illustration by J.J. Laughlan EXTERNAL ANAL ANAL SAC SPHINCTER LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE NORMAL ANAL SAC This drawing shows ANAL SAC the location of the This drawing anal glands in shows an enlarged relation to the abscessing anal muscles in the area. gland just to The gland on the the left of the anus. left is enlarged while the one on the right is normal. Dr. ne of the most frequent ailments of the dog is O impaction and inflammation of the anal sacs. Dogs DIFFICULTY and cats, as well as several other mammals have anal sacs which store secretions from surrounding glands. Often the pet with inflamed, swollen anal sacs will There are two of these sacs under the skin, one on each have difficulty with bowel movements because of the side of the rectum. pain connected with defecation and may even become constipated. In dogs with swollen infected anal sacs, the What the function of these sacs is remains uncertain. skin over the region is usually glistening red, thin and The material stored in the anal sacs has a strong extremely painful. Relief, at times, can be provided by unpleasant odor. Some people feel that this allows applying warm, moist packs to hasten the softening of animals to mark their stool and territory with a distinctive the hard painful swelling. scene. Often when strange dogs meet they will smell each other under the tail, as if checking each other's Many times the sac ruptures discharging pus to the credentials.