Many homeless and private owned cats are relinquished to cat shelters. Shelters are often a very stressful place for cats and their welfare may be endangered. Today it is common that cats are housed in groups at cat shelters and there are some perceived problems in housing cats in groups. The social structure of the cat is very complex and although cats are basically solitary they can be kept in groups under the right conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate how cats in groups interact with each other at a cat shelter.

Aggression is a normal part of a dog?s behaviour repertoire and has always been an evolutionary relevant behaviour. Even if aggression in some contexts is relevant, it is one of the most common problem behaviour reported by dog owners. It has been discussed if some breeds are more likely to show aggression and therefore should be banned. On the 1st of January 2008 a new act was enforced by the Swedish government giving the police force greater authority in decisions to apprehend and euthanize dogs if they after an appropriate evaluation of the dog?s temperament think it is necessary.

The aim of this study was to see if an increased amount of gas could be seen in the small bowel of cats subjected to trauma and if measuring the amount of gas could be of any use in the clinical evaluation of the patient. When the peristaltic waves in the small bowel decreases due to neurological damage or chock the microorganisms of the gut grow in number and possibly produce more gas and toxins. When the cat is stressed it can swallow more air then usual, and the air that is in solution with the chyme in the lumen of the gut separates from the ingesta. When the bowel isn?t moving it becomes easier for bacteria and toxins to penetrate the wall of the gut, and then get access to the bloodstream.

Feline Odontoclastic Resorptive Lesions (FORL) is a painful disease that affects feline teeth and that is increasing in prevalence. The ethiology is still rather unknown. However, research on the ultra structure of the feline tooth may help us understand why FORL is so prevalent in cats and not in other species. Since the ethiology is still unknown, there is yet no profylaxis. The pathogenesis is rather well known; the hard structure of affected teeth gradually undergo odontoclastic resorption and resorptive lesions are often partly replaced with bone- or cementum-like tissue.

Feline asthma is a condition very similar to the respiratory disease affecting humans. It is causing, among other things, a constriction of the bronchial airways, an increase of mucus production and damage to, or erosion of, the epithelial membrane. The symptoms occur intermittently and do, in most cases, evolve during a long period of time. The aim of this essay was to investigate whether there are any nursing routines for feline patients with asthma in animal clinics and animal hospitals in Sweden, and if so, to compare similarities and differences. A literary study of research material also led to a suggestion of how to form a nursing routine for this type of patient.

Pheromones are chemical substances representing very specific signal messages within a species. Although a lot remains unknown about their precise effects, it is known that pheromones influence the behaviour of the receiver. Since the mid 1990s, when it was first possible to synthesise analogues of two fractions of feline facial pheromone, F3 (Feliway®) and F4 (Felifriend®), these have been used in so called pheromonotherapy to treat behavioural problems in cats. The initial use of pheromones for specific behavioural problems has been extended to cover the wide field of stress related issues. This studycontains a questionnaire where veterinary nurses and surgeons at 50 Swedish veterinary hospitals and clinics were asked about their use of synthetic analogues to feline facial pheromones in the care and treatment of cats.

Feline odontoclastic resorptive lesion (FORL) is a tooth disease affecting both domestic and wild cats. Although FORL was described as early as the 1920´s, the etiology is still unclear. Several hypotheses have been presented but different studies have obtained contradictory results, and today there is no generally accepted etiology. Teeth affected by FORL are characterized by root resorption with progressive destruction of the tooth structure and alveolar bone as a consequence of clast cell activity. The disease is considered very painful when reaching a certain stage.

This bachelor thesis aimed to explore, in a qualitative manner, the relationship and the interaction between the hospital welfare officer and the rest of the nursing staff. We chose this subject because we wanted to explain the phenomena of being a medical outsider in the nursing team. Our questions at issue were the following three: How does the hospital welfare officer define his occupational sphere and how do the rest of the nursing staff define it, according to the welfare officer himself? Is the welfare officer's relation to his own professional role and to the rest of the nursing staff affected by where his office is placed - secluded from or within the clinic? How does the welfare officer himself value his profession in relation to the rest of the nursing crew? To answer these questions we interviewed eight welfare officers, placed in two different hospitals. We used three different theories to explain the primary information.

Yllesugning och ylleätning är relativt ovanliga beteendeproblem hos tamKatter. De har inte studerats i någon större omfattning trots att de har varit kända under lång tid. Det saknas välformulerade hypoteser som kan förklara de resultat som framkom i den hittills enda publicerade studien inom området. Därför genomfördes en Internetbaserad enkätstudie där 205 Katter ingick. Resultaten tyder på att när en Kattunge tas från sin mamma före 5-6 veckors ålder så kan det naturliga dibeteendet dröja sig kvar upp i vuxen ålder.

Studien omfattade 90 honKatter som kastrerades av veterinärstudenter på UDS smådjursklinik. Tanken med studien är att fastställa hur vanligt det är med komplikationer efter ovariehysterektomi hos honKatt utförd av veterinärstudenter, samt vilka komplikationer som förekommer mest frekvent. HonKatterna kastrerades under dissociativ anestesi via linea albasnitt. Två olika postoperativa analgesipreparat användes, 49 av Katterna gavs tolfenaminsyra och 41 av Katterna gavs meloxicam. Djurägarna kontaktades via telefon tio till tjugo dagar efter kastrationen för att svara på ett antal frågor om hur deras Katt har mått postoperativt och om några komplikationer har tillstött.

Trots att intresset för att ha Katt som husdjur är stort i Sverige lämnas tusentals Katter in till olika Katthem årligen. Många av dessa Katter uppges vara hemlösa. Då Katternas bakgrund ofta är okänd finns en risk för bristande eller negativa mänskliga erfarenheter. Något som i sin tur kan leda till otillgänglighet och/eller skygghet hos dessa Katter.Kattstallet i Åkeshov är ett av få Katthem i Sverige som tar emot även skygga och till synes förvildade Katter. De klassificerar inkomna Katter, på en femgradig skala, utifrån hur sociala och/eller hanterbara Katterna bedöms vara.

Den här uppsatsen behandlar idiomatiska uttryck i det svenska språket. Huvudsyftet har varit att undersöka i vilken utsträckning det svenska folket känner till betydelsen av ett utvalt antal idiom samt också i vilken mån dessa idiom används. Undersökningen genomfördes med enkäter där 139 informanter, varav ungefär hälften gick i högstadiet och den andra hälften var över 50 år, fick kryssa i flervalsfrågor om betydelse och användning för 20 idiom. Resultatet visade att de äldre informanterna inte bara hade en bättre kännedom om idiomens betydelser, utan också använde sig av idiomen i större utsträckning än de yngre. Vidare gick det att utifrån resultatet se att några av idiomen, främst "Göra en björntjänst", håller på att genomgå en förändring i sin betydelse medan andra idiom, såsom "Vara en Katt bland hermeliner", verkar vara på väg att försvinna ur vårt språk..

Syftet med studien är att undersöka ett konsultföretags interventionsmodell för grupputveckling ur ett konsultperspektiv respektive kundperspektiv. Detta görs för att ta reda på vilka strategier som kan användas för att arbeta med grupputveckling och för att undersöka dessa strategiers upplevda resultat. Studiens teoretiska referensram består av forskning inom grupputveckling. Susan Wheelans teori om hur effektiva team skapas ses som en grund för studien, där hennes 10 nycklar till produktivitet utgör kriterier för vad som kännetecknar högpresterande arbetsgrupper. Studiens empiriska material består av intervjuer med konsulter på konsultföretaget samt kunder till dem.

This student report is about neutering male and female cats and compares early ageneutering to neutering at the traditional age of 6 months.The main focus in this report is early age neutering, which means that neutering isperformed when the kittens are between 6 and 16 weeks of age. This technique has beenused by shelters in the United States for a long time, to prevent the adopted cats fromreproduce and contribute to the problem of overpopulation.Two different surgical methods are also addressed; the ventral midline incision and thelateral flank approach. Ovariohysterectomy and ovariectomy are also compared.I also address which drugs are preferable when kittens are neutered and some importantguidelines where you have to be extra careful when dealing with kittens.These guidelines are the preanesthetic evaluation, calculating drug dosages and preventinghypothermia, hypoglycaemia and stress.The report also has a summary of the concerns regarding early age neutering such asanaesthetic risks, growth disorders and growth plate fractures, urologic diseases andimmune system dysfunction, obesity, altered metabolism and behavioural changes.The sex hormones and how they change after neutering is also included.At the end of the report there is a compilation of a questionnaire that consists of eightquestions that I sent out to various animal hospitals and veterinary clinics in Sweden..

BAKGRUND Kattens trombocyter har egenskaper som gör att dagens automatiska och manuella hematologianalyser ofta ger falskt låg trombocyträkning (pseudotrombocytopeni). Trombocyträkningen (PLT) riskerar att bli missvisande låg på grund av att trombocyterna hos Katter kan vara mycket större än trombocyterna hos övriga arter, samt för att Katters trombocyter in vitro ofta är så lättaktiverade att aggregat bildas. En del av de största trombocyterna räknas inte av de automatiska hematologiinstrumenten (framför allt impedanstyper) och trombocytaggregat medför att trombocyterna blir ojämnt fördelade i blodprovet. Vid sant låga trombocytvärden kan livshotande blödningar uppstå och det är därför viktigt att kunna skilja Katter med sann trombocytopeni från Katter med falsk trombocytopeni. Trombocytaggregering har effektivt förhindrats med prostaglandin E1. Prostaglandin E1 är dock mycket instabilt i rumstemperatur, vilket medför att effekten lätt kan utebli vid felhantering. Nyligen presenterade en studie analogen iloprost.