Fleas can jump from one animal to another, however, dogs and cats infest more easily when they attend places where they are present on the ground waiting for a guest. Therefore, both the parasites present on the animal and those in the environment must be checked. To effectively treat our four-legged friends, the products must have a rapid ability to kill fleas and a long-lasting effect (residual activity) in order to prevent re-infestations
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Dogs and cats are very susceptible to ticks and diseases that they transmit as carriers. For this reason, it is important to protect them by using specific products with repellent activity (sprays, collars, powders or spot-ons against ticks), to be applied at least one month before the start of the season at risk (indicatively from February to March at October-November)
Although the cat's bite is weaker than the dog's, it often causes a deep wound and exposes to a greater number of complications. The felines, in fact, have long, thin and sharp teeth that manage to penetrate the muscle tissue and, when the hand is affected, they can reach the joints, tendons and bones, inoculating the bacteria present in their mouth
The instinct that leads the domestic cat and the wild felines to bury their own excrements is not dictated by hygienic questions, or at least does not depend only on them. Scholars believe that this habit is due to the need to hide their own traces and thus make their presence less evident to other animals
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by a protozoan (unicellular microorganism): Toxoplasma gondii . This obligate intracellular parasite performs a part of its life cycle in the cat 's intestine , which represents the definitive host in which it can carry out its entire biological cycle, before infecting other warm-blooded animals, including humans
The feline immunodeficiency virus (abbreviated as FIV , from the English Feline Immunodeficiency Virus ) is a retrovirus responsible for an infectious and contagious disease for cats , very similar to the immunodeficiency syndrome that affects humans. In fact, like HIV, the feline immunodeficiency virus affects the immune system causing its progressive weakening and, in the long term, predisposes the animal to contract secondary infections with greater ease
On 12 February 2002, a team of paleontologists led by Professor Peter Doyle (from the English university of Greenwich) announced the discovery of the fossilized vomit of an ichthyosaur . This strange animal belonged to a group of ancestral marine reptiles, similar to dolphins but with a more pointed snout and paddle-like legs
Beyond some hilarious videos in which domestic animals try to imitate their masters by brushing their teeth, wild animals do not seem to care much about their teeth in nature. Despite the absence of oral hygiene, the animals still tend to have perfect teeth. Even in less industrialized countries, where people's oral hygiene often leaves something to be desired, the incidence of dental problems is lower; all this is clearly dictated by dietary regions, given that in the less advanced areas the consumption of sweets and refined foods is extremely low
In animals, the avian influenza symptomatology varies both in relation to the viral strain involved in the infection and to the species affected. In birds, in particular, the infection has a benign course, if caused by low pathogenic viruses belonging to all the H subtypes ( LPAI - Low Pathogenic Avian Influence )
When you say sweat blood! One of the peculiarities of the hippopotamus is that of secreting a red pigment that covers its skin giving the impression that it is sweating blood ! In reality it is not blood, but a mixture of two pigments - one red, the other orange - which acts as a solar filter and disinfectant
Cellulose is an insoluble dietary fiber, indigestible for humans but not for cows and other large ruminant herbivores. In reality, no mammal is able to produce enzymes capable of degrading cellulose . The digestion of this fiber is then entrusted to the symbiosis with so-called cellulolytic bacteria (eg Ruminococci ), housed in the stomach (rumen) of the animal