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The New Zealand Kennel Club (now trading as Dogs News Zealand, and also known as Dogs NZ and NZKC) is the primary kennel club responsible for dog pedigree registration services in New Zealand. They also provide training services, judging for dog shows and many other services relating to dog showing .
pimobendan – phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor used to manage heart failure in dogs; pirlimycin – antimicrobial; ponazuril – anticoccidial; praziquantel – treatment of infestations of the tapeworms Dipylidium caninum, Taenia pisiformis, Echinococcus granulosus; prazosin – sympatholytic used in hypertension and abnormal muscle contractions
The most common form of sterilization in dogs and cats is surgical, spaying in females and castration in males. Non-surgical fertility control can either result in sterilization or temporary contraception and could offer a cheaper way to keep wild dog and cat populations under control. As of 2019, only contraceptives are commercially available.
For treatment against roundworms, drugs based on emodepside, fenbendazole, flubendazole, mebendazole, milbemycin oxime, moxidectin, pyrantel and selamectin are approved in Germany for domestic dogs. These drugs are broad-spectrum anthelmintics and also exert activity against most other nematodes found in dogs. [ 70 ]
Atipamezole has also been used as an antidote for various toxicities in dogs. For example, the anti-tick medication amitraz is commonly ingested by dogs who eat their anti-tick collars. [19] Amitraz works by the same mechanism as dexmedetomidine and is thus easily reversed by atipamezole.
Drenching Merino hoggets, Walcha, NSW U.S. soldiers treating animals with de-worming medication in Eswatini during VETCAP. Deworming (sometimes known as worming, drenching or dehelmintization) is the giving of an anthelmintic drug (a wormer, dewormer, or drench) to a human or animals to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm.
The 2024 National Dog Show will air once again on NBC this Thanksgiving with longtime hosts John O'Hurley and David Frei reprising the roles as co-hosts.
Individual dogs of any breed can have a profound reaction characterized by hypotension, especially if there is an underlying heart problem. In giant-breed dogs and sighthounds , the sedative effects of acepromazine may last for 12–24 hours, which is much longer than the usual 3–4 hours.