I denna litteraturstudie sammanfattas ett flertal undersökningar av effekten av olika anthelmintika till hund och katt för behandling mot spolmaskarterna Toxocara canis, Toxocara (cati) mystax och, till viss del, Toxascaris leonina. Samtliga studier har publicerats mellan åren 1998 och 2011.T. canis drabbar hundar, T. (cati) mystax angriper katter och T. leonina har både hund och katt som huvudvärd.

Nematoden Toxocara canis är ett av de vanligaste endoparasitproblemen hos unga valpar, både i Sverige och i övriga europeiska länder. Vid kraftiga infektioner kan T. canis orsaka utmärgling hos valpar och i sällsynta fall obstipation med fatal utgång. Nematoden kan även orsaka skada hos människan då T. canis larver penetrerar olika organ.

P-glykoprotein (P-gp) är en effluxtransportör som ursprungligen uppmärksammades för sin kapacitet att skydda tumörceller från flertalet läkemedel. Det har sedan visat sig att P-gp även finns i andra vävnader, som tarm, njurtubuli, lever samt i hjärnans kapillära endotelceller. P-gp är en viktig komponent i blod-hjärnbarriären där den hindrar passage av icke-essentiella substanser till hjärnan. Genen som kodar för P-gp kallas MDR1. Mutationen som flertalet hundraser har är en deletion i det fjärde kodande exonet i denna gen.

Today therapy dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) service people more than ever and different categories of work places use therapy dogs to help their caretakers. Many studies have been made on the positive effects in patients when they are given contact with a dog, but very little have been done on how the dog experience its situation and what kind of behaviour a therapy dog shows during its working days. This work was made to investigate the behaviours that educated therapy dogs in Sweden showed when they were in contact with a caretaker and to find out if the dogs showed any signs of stress or some other kind of discomfort. To do this a survey was sent out to 17 educated therapy dog handlers in Sweden that together had 18 educated therapy dogs. The survey contained 39 questions about the daily work of the therapy dogs when they were together with caretakers and some questions about the therapy dogs spare time. A question about what kind of dog breed the therapy dog handlers had were also in the survey to investigate if some breeds were more usual as therapy dogs.

This BSc thesis is an introductory step to the collaboration between the Swedish zoo Skansen and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). It constitutes of an inventory of the Nairobi Animal Orphanage (AO), a facility that cares for injured and abandoned wildlife species in Kenya. Through the cooperation with Skansen, the KWS will improve their management of the AO. The aim of the inventory and BSc theses is to evaluate the management of black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas), lion (Panthera leo) and patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas) regarding their biological needs. The general enclosures, routines and feeding at the AO are also evaluated since they have a great influence on the management of captive animals.

To date, the genus Helicobacter consist of 26 different species and even more species are yet to be characterized. Helicobacter has been detected in connection with diseases in the liver and pancreas in humans and animals. Helicobacter spp. are gram negative, curved, S-shaped or spiral shaped bacteria. They are microaerophilic and have flagella that make them motile. Helicobacter, present in the gastric mucosa neutralize the gastric acid through production of urease that hydrolyses urea to ammonia and bicarbonate.

The purpose of this work was that with the help of a literature review have a single document with information on how the various species: brown bear (Ursus arctos), lynx (Lynx lynx) and the wolf (Canis lupus) living in the wild. The aim was also to show which stereotypic behaviours these different species have in zoos and the enrichments that is already being used and to make suggestions and recommendations on enrichment based on animal behaviour ecology. In zoos, some species thrive well while others have propositions to propagating problems, poor health and stereotypic behaviors. The brown bear, lynx and wolf, live both in the wild and in zoos in Sweden. As these animals have different ways of living in the wild, it is important to accommodate to each species, the way they are kept in zoos in accordance with their behavioural ecology.Brown bears are omnivorous and solitary living species with large energy needs so that they spend most of their day to actively feeding but also rest.

Med anledning av vargens (Canis lupus) återetablering i Sverige presenteras och jämförs de boskapsvaktande djuren hund (Canis lupus familiaris), lama (Lama glama) och åsna (Equus asinus). Boskapsvaktande djur används sedan länge i många rovdjurstäta länder, men i Sverige används idag främst rovdjurssäkra stängsel för att hindra varg från att riva får (Ovis aries). Stängsel är dock kostsamma och begränsar dessutom betesytan. Under 2006 hade 32 % av fårflockarna i USA hundar, 14 % lamor och 9 % åsnor som vaktdjur. En boskapsvaktande hund måste växa upp i en fårflock för att socialiseras med fåren.

For most dog owners today it is natural to use acoustic stimuli such as talking to communicate with their pets. Words are used both to ask the dogs to perform tricks, as well as to hold ?conversations? with the dog. This literature review looks at how dogs perceive human acoustical communication and how this can influence the behaviour of the dog. This information could be used e.g.

Syftet med föreliggande undersökning var att studera sambandet mel¬lan hundars ålder och deras inlärnings- respektive problemlösnings¬förmåga. Undersökningen genomför¬des på 17 hundar med ett ålders¬spann på 12 -123 månader. Hun¬darna genomförde en inlärningsövning och en problemlösnings¬övning. Det visade sig finnas en svag icke sig¬nifikans tendens att de yngre hundarna hade ett lägre antal träningstill¬fällen. En slutsats som kan dras från detta är att det krävs ett stort stickprov för att få fram reliabla resultat gällande yngre och äldre hun¬dars inlärningsförmåga..

Målet med studien var att utföra en prevalensundersökning av endoparasiter i träck från vuxna svenska hundar. Urvalskriterierna var hundar över ett år från hushåll med maximalt tre hundar, varav två tilläts delta. Hundarna skulle vara friska samt obehandlade med anthelmintika och endektocider minst tre månader före provtagningstillfället. Provtagningsmateriel delades ut på djursjukhus och mindre kliniker runtom i landet. Djurägarna ombads att fylla i en remiss med frågor om ras, ålder, kön, hundens användningsområde, avmaskningsstatus, om hunden haft möjlighet att fånga bytesdjur och/eller om den vistades på hunddagis. Proverna samlades in under perioden januari till oktober 2014.

The aim of this study was to describe how body language of humans affects the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) and how it can be implanted in the stressed situation that occur at an animal hospital. The subject is brought to notice because the author has experienced that dogs can get more stressed when a stressed and nervous owner is attending. Humans affect each other through posture, facial expression, voice and movement, and are often driven by their emotions, which can differentiate the verbal communication from the non-verbal communication. This occurs both consciously and unconsciously. Every human uses body language but not everyone knows how it is used or how to understand it.

Most studies regarding wolf (Canis lupus) predation on moose (Alces alces) have focused on the total annual consumption of moose within a wolf territory but few have tried to describe the spatial impact of wolf predation on a local scale. In this study I have analyzed wolf movement data, wolf predation, moose hunting statistics and moose hunter observations to investigate how wolf predation affects the human harvest of moose in Scandinavia. Since wolves prey on mostly juvenile moose during summer, analysis of their summer movement patterns is crucial to understand its impact on the human harvest later during autumn. In this study both reproducing (n = 45) and non-reproducing wolves (n = 12) reduced their movement range during summer to 66% and 67% of their annual movement range, respectively. Reproducing wolves increased their movement range from early to late summer while non reproducing wolves did not.

Lactobacillus reuteri has been used as probiotics in piglet and chicken feedings as well as in different diary products for humans. In this EEF-work I have shown that L. reuteri can be an alternative for treatment of vaginitis in laboratory rats used for breeding. In a breeding stock with 3000 animals some animals had a vaginal infection with ??haemolytic streptococci group G.

Wildlife contributes with many benefits to humans but also brings economic costs. From being eradicated in Scandinavia the grey wolf (Canis lupus) is returning to South-Western Sweden and people are not used to its presence. In Scandinavia carnivores have to co-occur with humans in a landscape used for many different interests. Consequences of wolf establishments are e.g. competition for moose, depredation on sheep and attacks on hunting dogs.