Orthopedic

• Canine Hip Dysplasia (CHD) – example:  Retrievers, large-breed dogs
• Elbow Dysplasia – example:  Laborador Retriever
• Patellar Luxation – example:  Poodle
• Monitored and graded by Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA)

Ocular

• Progressive Retinal Atrophy – example:  Irish Setter
• Retinal Dysplasia – example:  Laborador Retriever
• Monitored by Canine Eye Registration Foundation (CERF)

• Congenital renal dysplasia/aplasia – example:  Lasa Apso
• Dilated Cardiomyopathy – example:  Giant breeds, Great Dane, Doberman Pinscher
• Copper toxicosis – example:  Bedlington Terriers
• Von Willebrand’s Disease – example:  Doberman Pnischer, Scottish Terriers, Manchester Terriers, Poodles
• Phosphofructokinase Deficiency – example:  Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel
• Pyruvate Kinaes Deficiency – example:  Basenji

Neoplasia

• Osteosarcoma
• Mammary carcinoma
• Lymphoma
• Hemangiosarcoma
• Prostatic hyperplasia/neoplasia, testicular tumors

• Well-balanced, commercial dog food best; limit table scraps, treats

• Nutritional factors involved in CHD – levels of Ca/P, Vitamin C, protein

• Obesity – recommend body condition scoring to determine amount and type of diet

• Ethylene glycol poisoning
• Chocolate "Death by chocolate" really happens in dogs!

• Canine Parvovirus

• causes bloody diarrhea and vomiting; myocarditis in neonates

• 50% fatal in unvaccinated puppies

• problems with maternal antibody interference with vaccine -- window of susceptibility in puppies

• Transmitted by both direct contact and inaminate objects – virus is very hardy in the environment (bleach solution is best disinfectant)

• Breed susceptibility – Rottweilers, Doberman pinschers, Laborador retrievers

• Canine Distemper Virus

• Respiratory and systemic illness

• Neurologic manifestations, in both acute and chronic stages

• Animals that recover may have late neurologic manifestations, hard-pad disease

• Carried by raccoons; different from feline distemper

• Transmitted by both direct contact and inanimate objects (virus survives in the environment)

• Canine Adenoviruses (infectious hepatitis)
• Canine Parainfluenza virus – mild respiratory disease
• Canine Coronavirus – diarrhea, not as severe as parvovirus
• Rabies

Bacterial Diseases

• Kennel Cough (Bordetella bronchiseptica)
• Leptospirosis – kidney and possibly liver damage, spread by wild animals, livestock, rodents; zoonotic
• Brucellosis
  • primarily a reproductive disease
  • males become sterile
  • females abort
  • zoonotic disease
• Lyme disease – (Borella burdorferi)
  • spread by ticks (deer tick)
  • causes arthritis, heart disease
  • questions about autoimmune response in chronic cases, vaccine

Parasites

• Canine Heartworm disease
  • mosquito is intermediate host
  • most current preventatives kill larval stage that develops in tissues
  • adult worms in heart produce microfilariae

• Intestinal parasites

• can cause zoonotic disease (cutaneous and visceral larval migrans)
• passed to puppies in utero, or in mother’s milk

• External paratsites

• fleas
• mites

  Demodectic mange (red mange) -- linked with immune dysfunction

  Sarcoptic mange (scabies) -- zoonotic

  Ear mites -- transmitted between dogs and cats

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