Epidemiological Investigation of Clinical Diseases and Conditions of Pet Animals at Chittagong City Area, Bangladesh

Abstract

This study was conducted to estimate the proportional prevalence of clinical diseases and conditions in pet animals (dog, cat, and rabbit) attended at S. A. Quaderi Teaching Veterinary Hospital, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Chittagong, Bangladesh. A total of 388 cases of different clinical diseases and conditions were recorded during the study period from October 2016 to January 2017. Among them the overall proportional prevalence of clinical diseases and conditions in dog, cat and rabbit were 44.32%, 34.28% and 21.39% respectively. The medicinal case comprises the highest percentage of diseases as 79.07% and 66.92% in dog and cat, respectively. Among the medicinal cases parasitic diseases were most frequently encountered both in dog (24.42%) and cat (23.31%). Whereas, prevalence of surgical cases were 16.28% in dog and 31.58% in cat and gynecological cases were 4.65% in dog and 1.50% in cat. In rabbit, prevalence of traumatic injuries and fractures were 16.87% followed by mange 12.06%. The parasitic cases were highest in all of the clinical diseases and conditions. So, proper prevention and therapeutic management should be taken to reduce the prevalence of parasitic diseases of pet animals. Immunoprophylaxis or vaccination and hygienic management should be performed to curb the infectious diseases. Further extensive epidemiologic, laboratory or molecular studies are also needed for the appropriate prevention and control measures of diseases and conditions of pet animals in study area.

Magnitudes of diseases in dogs vary among different levels of age, gender, breed, and season: A hospital-based, retrospective cross-sectional study

“…Mange, lacerated wound, and abortion had a significant (p < 0.05) breed wise variation in terms of proportional incidence, and these diseases occurred more in local breed than other breeds. Yadav et al (2017) also reported that the occurrence of mange was greater in local breed than other exotic breeds, which supported the findings of the present study. The existing findings might be due to exotic breeds were mostly reared with proper care, but the local breeds did not get such intensive care.…”

“…Regarding the gender wise distribution of diseases, the proportional incidence in male dogs was higher than that in female dogs, which conformed the findings of Yadav et al (2017) in the Chittagong city of Bangladesh and Behera et al (2015) in Odisha, India. According to this study, female was more prone to gastroenteritis than male, showing a contradiction with the findings of Ide et al (2002) who found male suffers more from gastroenteritis than female due to higher oxidative GS-German Sheperd; LR-Labrador Retriever; GR-Golden Retriever; D-Doberman; P-Pomeranian; L-Local breed.…”

Disease Prevalence and Therapeutics of Pet Dogs at Central Veterinary Hospital (CVH), Bangladesh

“…Out of all the disease categories, viral diseases were the most common in both males and females (p<0.05); nevertheless, males were more likely than females to have viral diseases (Table 2). The results of Yadav et al (2017), who found that male dogs had a greater illness prevalence than female dogs (58.72% vs 41.28%), corroborated this finding. According to this research, sex significantly affects the relationship between illness and pet dogs.…”

“…Consequently, it is necessary to look into diseases in dogs, particularly in Dhaka, due to the presence of a large number of pet population. While studies on the clinical diseases in pets have been conducted in various parts of Bangladesh (Tarafder and Samad, 2010;Mahmud et al, 2014;Parvez et al, 2014;Yadav et al, 2017;Hasib et al, 2020;Hossain et al, 2022), there is comparatively little information available regarding the prevalence and associated risk factors of these conditions in dogs in Dhaka city. Furthermore, right choice of drugs is the key to treat clinical diseases.…”

Management Practices of Pet Dog among a Representative Sample of Owners in Sylhet, Bangladesh

“…P et ani mal acts as a crucial element in society where they perform important role in devel opment of children physically, mentally, and socially (Robertson et al, 2000), help the well-being of their owner to get play and exercise, help each other to compete with stress and in many countries, parents nursed pet animals as their child who have no child (Education and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, 2015). Among them dog is the principal one which play different significant roles, such as providing assistance to the blind and disabled person and sniffers dogs used by police and customs for improving activities of the defense section of the country to detect crime (Yadav et al, 2017). They are not only a companion animal but also acts as workers (Singh et al, 2015).…”