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A 10-year-old female beagle with oral cancer. Cancer is the leading cause of death in dogs. [1] It is estimated that 1 in 3 domestic dogs will develop cancer, which is the same incidence of cancer among humans. [2] Dogs can develop a variety of cancers and most are very similar to those found in humans.
Dogs have an overall reported incidence of mammary tumors of 3.4 percent. Dogs spayed before their first heat have 0.5 percent of this risk, and dogs spayed after just one heat cycle have 8 percent of this risk. [1] The tumors are often multiple. The average age of dogs with mammary tumors is ten to eleven years old. [6]
Three dogs were trained for the Sputnik 2 flight: Albina, Mushka, and Laika. [18] Soviet space-life scientists Vladimir Yazdovsky and Oleg Gazenko trained the dogs. [19] To adapt the dogs to the confines of the tiny cabin of Sputnik 2, they were kept in progressively smaller cages for periods of up to twenty days. The extensive close ...
A. Adel Hassan Al A'ali; Jorma Aalto; Mike Aamodt; Jari Aarnio; Morten Aasen; P. Aasiyan; Behnaam Aazhang; Abanoub (Coptic bishop) Safdar Ali Abbasi; Jay Abbass
Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [1] [2] [3] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room. During this ...
The Old English Sheepdog is predisposed to allergic skin disease and demodicosis. [12] An American study reviewing over a million patients presented to 27 veterinary teaching hospitals in North America found the Old English Sheepdog to be predisposed to hip dysplasia, with 11.1% of dogs examined having the condition compared to 3.52% overall. [13]
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Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1957.Parents, Joan and Albert, moved the family (siblings Amy and Jack) to Massachusetts in 1959, settling in Concord.His first acting experiences were with the Concord Players where Spound was in the ensemble of The King and I (1964) and played the role of Billy in King of Hearts (1965).