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Carpal protector accelerates recovery from old Duc fracture

Duc is a Breton dog of 4 years and about 30 kg of weight that will have to be put on a diet.

He has instability in his right knee and complains of pain from a partial rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.

Ana, his caregiver, noticed Duc limping slightly and took him to the vet. While making the decision whether to operate or not, they found the knee protectors online. The protector will give you stability and reduce pain.

In addition, a few months ago Duc fractured his front leg. Nothing more and nothing less than the radius and ulna near the carpal joint.

The veterinarians of the University of Bellaterra looked to immobilize the leg temporarily with a bandage of Robert Jones. Later they placed a plaster on him.

Ana noticed that after a few weeks of removing the plaster, Duc was supporting the leg that had injured something crooked, especially on cold days. To stabilize and accelerate the rehabilitation process we have placed a carpal protector. The ceramic particles of the protector reflect the infrared heat released by Duc’s body and keep the joint warm, improving blood flow and speeding up recovery.

We hope he recovers soon.

Soporte de carpo para perro Duc, se ayuda de soporte de carpo

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Text and photography: Toni Fernández
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Ayudas para perros con artrosis

Pepa is a one-year-old kitten weighing 2 kilos. It was a baby that some neighbors were going to sacrifice and Carlos, its caretaker, found out and decided to take care of it.

Pepa, la gata paralítica

Pepa grew up surrounded by other animals and always answered Carlos’ call. One day he didn’t come and went out to look for her. He found her lying on the street bleeding. She thought a dog would have attacked her but the next day she took her to the vet, they did an X-ray and saw that she had a lead pellet right in her spine. He had been shot.

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Pepa sufrió un disparo balín en la columna

Carlos and Pepa live together with another cat and 3 dogs in the mountains, in the province of Barcelona, and used to walk together. A few weeks earlier a neighbor hunter had threatened the animals for having invaded a few seconds an area of the forest without fencing of which he claimed to be the owner. The same neighbor who days before witnesses had heard beating his own dog before it disappeared.

Carlos did not hesitate to denounce the alleged aggressor to the Mossos d’Escuadra and look for some solution for Pepa, who in addition to rehabilitation will have a wheelchair that will help him move.

Thank you Carlos for helping. Thank you for reporting. It is the responsibility of all of us to make this world a place where life is respected.

Carlos-y-PepaGata Pepa

We hope to see you run very soon Pepa.

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Photography and text: Toni Fernández

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Thor is a nice one-year-old Carlino. A few weeks ago he began to lift his right back leg when running and little by little his caregiver began to notice that he was less and less supporting the weight on this leg.

He went to the vet and was diagnosed with a medial patella dislocation. This means that a bone located in front of the knee joint slips out of its groove in the tibia, causing pain and functional weakness of the limb. The veterinarian informed the caregiver that the only solution was to operate.

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Being a breed dog, breeders sometimes guarantee the health of the animal. Patella dislocation is usually a congenital disease so it will depend on whether they can prove that this case is genetic or not for the breeder to take care of the costs of the operation. While this procedure is being solved, your caregiver has decided to protect the knee with an Orthocanis knee protector . This protector will reduce discomfort by keeping the joint warm and delay the possible appearance of osteoarthritis in the knee, since having the optimal working temperature, Thor will exercise more muscles in the affected area. In turn, this musculature will stabilize the joint and also reduce pain.

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Perro con veterinarioArtritis-y-sintomasLuckily or unfortunately dogs don’t talk, so sometimes it can be hard to tell if they’re in pain. Fortunately, the dog’s response to pain is very similar to what we give. Depending on its level of tolerance to it, its intensity and its origin, we will observe changes in behavior that seek to avoid it. These avoidant behaviors will be more or less marked, so it is important to know well what the normal behavior of the dog in question is to realize the changes.

 

These changes can manifest themselves in the form of general behavioral alterations ranging from depression/apathy of the animal, through loss of appetite and abnormal panting, to situations of social avoidance or even aggressiveness, especially when the pain becomes more intense when touching the area causing said pain.

chat whatsapp perroIn more concrete terms, postural or movement alterations can be observed: the dog avoids performing those movements and postures that intensify the pain. A simple example is not to support that leg that is injured. There can also be an excessive grooming behavior of the painful area, which can bring more serious situations, such as when a small lesion on the skin is complicated in licking dermatitis, although the pain is a physiological response of protection whose function is to avoid the aggravation of an injury.

Those abnormal postures that the dog adopts to avoid feeling pain or to decrease its intensity are called analgesic postures. An example of these is the slouching that can be observed in the face of abdominal pain. With this posture the animal seeks to reduce the tension exerted by the walls of the abdomen on the organs of the cavity, which is where the pain has its origin.

Sometimes realizing the problem is not so simple, because the tolerance that the specific dog has to pain varies from one animal to another. Also, as with people, pain is difficult to quantify objectively. Even the situation occurs that pain can confuse us about the origin of it, because pain is a nervous mechanism that can originate from a localized physical injury, but it can also originate in the nervous system without having an apparent injury in the painful area. An example of this situation is the pain that is observed in a pinching in the spine: the pain does not manifest itself more intensely in the place where the injury is, but refers to the areas that are innervated by the affected nerves.

soporte-de-cadera-canino_preuIt also happens that the pain feels different depending on the affected tissue. It is easy to locate the exact place of injury in the case of muscle or skeletal pain, but not when the problem is of an internal organ: a thorn stuck in a finger is easy to find, but to know the cause of abdominal pain, the perception of which is more diffuse, it is advisable to carry out more detailed explorations, even with more informative diagnostic techniques such as an ultrasound or an X-ray.

What is really important is to realize as soon as possible the existence of pain, both to treat the problem that originates it as soon as possible and to take measures to reduce its intensity. Since pain, although a physiological response to protect the body from the complication of injuries, has been shown to delay recovery from injury. It is for this reason that treatments against pain are used even before it appears in surgical interventions. In this way it has been possible to shorten the recovery time of the dog, in addition to significantly improving its well-being.

In addition, it has been seen that if the pain is not treated it can become chronic and require lifelong medication, since the nerves are “sensitized”, even when the cause of that pain has already been resolved.

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Ayudas para perros con artrosis

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Buika is a beautiful dog of about thirty-seven kilos and eleven years of age.

A year ago he began to have some symptoms of dysfunction in his hind legs. After 5 months he began to lose practically all the mobility of the hindquarters. They visited numerous veterinarians for 6 months, and the conclusion is that a strong contusion in the hip area when she was small, could have injured her marrow and that she had now become inflamed blocking the nerve activity of the back legs and ephincters.

His caregiver tried anti-inflammatories but the result was not very noticeable and he also did not want to abuse their use since he was afraid of damaging other organs, an effect quite common in nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. He also knew of two cases of friends in which the use of anti-inflammatories had had devastating effects on their dogs and did not want to take risks.

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He has also tried natural therapies, thermotherapy in addition to practicing massages and stretches to avoid entanglement in the affected limbs. He only had to hold it with a towel the abdominal part, a very widespread practice, although he knew that it must be something temporary since with it he oppresses the entire digestive system and worsened the situation.

toalla para ayudar a perro inválidoFinally, after weeks without finding a solution, and carrying on their backs the almost forty kilos of weight so that Buika could go out and walk a little with her front legs, they decided to look on the internet for some help. And they found the wheelchair self-adjusting. With her, Buika has regained mobility and can go back to walking wherever she wants and as long as she wants.

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Lolo is a 7-year-old French Bulldog. From one day to the next, without his caregivers perceiving any overexertion, fall or trauma, Lolo stopped moving his legs from behind. They observed that he did not want to leave his basket.

The veterinarian did some tests where they verified that he had a herniated in an intervertebral disc. It put pressure on his spinal cord, damaging the nerves. As he still had tenderness in his hind limbs there were possibilities of regaining mobility after surgery.

The operation was carried out, but although the owners and Lolo put all their efforts into rehabilitation, it was not possible to recover mobility. Possibly the spinal cord was already badly damaged or there was another hernia somewhere else in the spine.

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They didn’t give up. Lolo is a very vital dog, he really wants to move and be self-sufficient. That is why the owners opted for a wheelchair… and no one better than our warrior Lolo to release the new camouflage color model. The following video was filmed a few seconds after putting the chair for the first time…

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Cristobal Soto, a young Chilean designer, will make you cry with the tribute he has paid to his dog Rayita, who died in 2012 after 21 years together. It has taken a while but before I did not know much about animation and has had to learn before he can make this emotional short.

Farewell“, this is the name of this farewell short film inspired by a lifetime, the 21 years that Cristobal Soto and Rayita shared, and also in a final moment, as Soto explained to I’m Chile: “When he was going to die, I was super weak, shivering and in pain, but still at one point he licked my hand before he died, just once. I was so sorry, that after that I came up with animation.”

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Belltown, a city in Seattle (USA), is watching these last weeks as a 2-year-old farmer gets on and off the bus alone and even does what she can to indicate that her stop is about to arrive.

Seattle dog's rush hour ride: on the bus, by herself, weekly

His stop is that of a dog park where he likes to play and spend time and there he travels without anyone else. The initial surprise of the neighbors, to see a dog traveling alone by bus, became a concern later, thinking that the animal had no owner. However, this dog whose name is Eclipse, has an owner named Jeff Young.

Eclipse and his owner live very close to a bus stop that they often take to go to the park. Jeff tells Komo News, Eclipse’s solo getaways began by chance. Every day while they were both waiting for the bus to arrive, Jeff lit a cigar and gave him time to smoke it before the bus that took them to the park arrived. But, one fine day the bus arrived before Jeff finished it and Eclipse’s impatience made her climb alone without waiting for anyone. The surprise was when he found that he had gotten off at the stop he was playing and arrived at the park without problems. “We separated, she took the bus without me, but I caught up with her at the pipican,” Jeff said. “It is not very difficult to get there, you go up right in front of the house and get off in the park which is only four stops away.”

Seattle dog's rush hour ride: on the bus, by herself, weekly

Now everyone who usually takes this bus knows her but at first, she kept receiving calls from friends telling her that they had found her and that they were taking care of her. He had to explain to them that he had a self-sufficient dog and that he already knew what he was doing, that they didn’t worry… who would return alone by bus.

Cama ortopédica para perros

  • The Government is considering punishing zoophilia and the organization of cockfights and dogs
  • ERC calls for increasing sentences so that the cruelest aggressors do not evade prison
Perro atropellado y rescatado por perrera de barcelona

A caretaker of the kennel in Barcelona walks last January to Brownie, an abandoned and run over dog that was finally adopted.

As disgusting as it may seem to most people, a quick glance on the internet allows you to find hundreds of videos of sex between humans, usually women, and animals of all kinds. These practices will be vetoed in Spain in the coming months if an agreement is forged between the parliamentary groups of Congress that aims to toughen penalties and introduce new crimes that punish animal abuse and that, according to the sources consulted, has signs of materializing shortly.

Esquerra Republicana has presented eight amendments to the reform of the Penal code that has been discussed for some days in the lower house and that the PP is, for the moment, willing to accept, waiting to know the contributions of the rest of the groups and to seek a joint wording on the behaviors to be typified, according to popular sources.

The reform designed in its day by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and that after a paralyzed year has been resumed and is being negotiated in an express way with a view to its approval in Congress in mid-January, already improved animal protection, by increasing the penalty, for example, if the mistreatment causes the death of any living being that lives “under human control”.

HEAVY HAND WITH REPEAT OFFENDERS

ERC now proposes that zoophilia be punished for the first time in Spain, with prison sentences of one to three years. It also demands that the organizers of dog or fights be prosecuted and the punishment of abuse in general be toughened, so that if the aggressor is a repeat offender, the judge can decree his entry into prison. This would be achieved by raising prison sentences to three years, since punishments of less than two years normally avoid imprisonment.

Likewise, Esquerra claims a penalty of three months to a year for those who abandon any animal, without demanding that it be in danger, as originally proposed by the reform designed by Gallardón.

Several of these amendments reflect the demands made by the Parliamentary Association for the Defense of Animals (APDDA). Its president, the former deputy of the Chunta Aragonesista Chesús Yuste, warns that, if this opportunity is missed and finally zoophilia is not punished, “there is a risk that Spain will become a sanctuary” of this sexual assault, given that in the rest of the surrounding countries it is already punished.

MORE FREQUENT THAN YOU THINK

Yuste assures that sex between humans and animals is “more frequent than you think” and that there are even pimps who are dedicated to prostituting sheep, cows, horses and other fauna. For this reason, he welcomes the fact that the parties are seeking on this and other aberrations against animals “the maximum consensus”.

According to the sources consulted, the Popular Party, with the approval of the Ministry of Justice, has commissioned a comparative study to analyze how the legislations of other states punish zoophilia, with the purpose of seeking a wording and introducing even penalties in Spain.

Patricia Martin. Madrid.

Source: www.elperiodico.com

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derby-protesis-mainThe development of 3D printers is allowing very important advances in the field of medicine. Initially, this technology was used to create parts perfectly adapted to the body of each individual, using plastic materials. Medicine is already going further and organs are beginning to be created with biological materials in order to temporarily or permanently replace parts of the body.

Custom prostheses created with 3D printers have been used in humans, but this time the beneficiary has been Derby, a dog. It is an adopted dog, with a birth deformity on its front legs.

The adaptation of the prostheses are perfect, since the “mold” is obtained from Computerized Tomography of the dog’s limbs. The first prostheses used have been of low height so that it can be adapted to them to, in the future, make the definitive ones.

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