COMPANION ANIMAL WELLNESS
The instrument used to listen to the heartbeat.
What is a stethoscope?
It is a type of parasite that can live in the intestines of animals and humans. It has a round appearance. It is the most common intestinal parasite in puppies. In humans, it can infect the intestines and other organs, even the eye, causing blindness.
What is a roundworm (also known as an ascarid or nematode)?
A veterinary specialist who focuses on diseases of the heart
Who is a cardiologist?
This type of dog is trained to help a person with a disability, and the dog is trained specifically for that person.
What is a service/guide dog?
A surgery performed on male dogs, cats, horses, sheep, goats and other pets or livestock to prevent them from reproducing.
What is a castration (neuter)?
Medication given to remove internal parasites from the digestive tract, lungs, or other tissues.
What are parasiticides or deworming medications?
What is a hookworm?
A veterinarian who works in the armed forces to take care of working dogs, soldiers' family pets, and protects our country from bioterrorism
What is a military veterinarian?
These breeds of dogs are commonly used as guide dogs. Must name at least 2 correct breeds.
What are Poodles, Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Cocker Spaniels, Australian Shepherds, and Bernese Mountain Dogs?
This type of instrument is used to hold a sedated horse's mouth open in order to remove sharp points from the horse's teeth, examine the mouth, and extract teeth.
What is a speculum?
A type of parasite that affects the pulmonary artery and heart of dogs and cats. It is spread only by mosquitoes.
This type of bacteria can be spread to people through their sick dog's urine.
What is leptospirosis?
A veterinarian who goes on ranch calls to take care of horses, cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs.
What is a large animal veterinarian?
These are types of assistance that service animals can provide. Name at least 3.
What are hearing, guide (blind), autism, mobility, emotional, seizure response, diabetic response, and therapy assistance?
Your horse is having abdominal pain. She wants to lay down constantly and she does not want to eat her hay. She is kicking her legs at her belly and breathing hard. The veterinarian performs general anesthesia for this type of surgery.
What is colic surgery?
The 2 core vaccinations performed in puppies and adult dogs.
What are distemper parvo combo and rabies vaccinations?
It is a virus that affects the central nervous system and is almost 100% fatal. It can be prevented by vaccination. Humans often can get it from the bites of sick dogs, cats, bats, racoons, skunks, and other animals. 59,000 people die of this virus per year.
What is rabies?
A veterinary specialist who focuses on diagnosing diseases by looking at tissue samples submitted from surgical biopsies or from a deceased patient
Who is a Pathologist?
He is the most decorated (honored) military working dog in World War 1 and he achieved the rank of Sergeant through combat.
Who is Sergeant Stubby?
This surgery helps us deliver baby animals from their mother when she is having trouble giving birth.
What is a caesarean section (C-section)?
A developmental orthopedic disease of the hips due to poor conformation. It creates looseness in the hips and early arthritis.
What is hip dysplasia?
The bacteria that causes a disease named the Bubonic Plague. Humans can get it from rodent fleas, and small mammals like cats that are sick with it. Before antibiotics were available, it killed 30-50% of the European population during a large outbreak.
What is Yersinia pestis?
This government agency protects and improves the health and quality of our Nation's animals and animal products, protecting animal agriculture.
What is the USDA-APHIS veterinary services?
This service animal is not a dog. It stands 2-3 feet tall, weights about 100 lbs, and can provide excellent stability, guidance, and retrieve things for their owner.
What is a miniature horse?
A type of surgery to help a puppy who ate a tennis ball that is now stuck in the small intestine, causing symptoms of vomiting, pain, and lack of appetite.
What is an enterotomy?