Pet Care

Thai Disease Center Warns Pussy-Cat Lovers

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2 years ago

May 28, 2020

Udon News

Thai Disease Center Warns Pussy-Cat Lovers

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A Thai Parasite Disease Research Center warns pussy-cat lovers to be careful with their feline friends after finding a 30-year-old male living in Thailand with 5 mm lesions in his right eye and 1 mm in his left. The culprit? Most likely his pussy cat.

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After examinations and tests, it was determined his lesions were related to a disease called chorioretinal toxoplasmosis. A common disease carried by both wild and domestic cats called toxoplasma gondii or T. gondii T. When a cat eats an infected mouse, rat, or any other prey that carries the parasite, they themselves become infected when digesting raw meat. A parasite is then released from cysts into the cat’s digestive tract, where it reproduces and produces oocysts.

Infected cats then excrete these oocysts in their feces by the millions. When the parasites leave the cysts of the infected meat, they will penetrate even more into the wall of the cat’s intestines which in return multiply into another form, called a tachyzoite. It then spreads from the intestine to other parts of the cat. Eventually, the cat’s immune system forces the parasite lays dormant until cysts grow in the cat’s muscles and the brain. Eventually mutating into yet another form, called a bradyzoite.

In some cases, T. gondii tachyzoites may be excreted in the milk of infected cows and goats.

Pregnant women and immunodeficient people have the highest risk of developing health problems after getting exposed to T. gondii . Women infected during pregnancy will show no symptoms themselves. Unfortunately, their infected infants will show no symptoms either, In fact, most will only show signs of infection until much later in life, including loss of vision and hearing, mental retardation, and, in severe cases, death.

This infection is found all over the world, people get it by eating raw or unheated meat, and eating and drinking food or water that was contaminated by cat feces.

Also, it can cause irreversible ulcerations and scarring, causing sore eyes, the tearing of the retina, and blurred vision

For answers to specific questions regarding toxoplasmosis infection in people, please consult with your health care professional.

There is no vaccine to protect against toxoplasmosis in animals or humans.

SOURCES: Cornell University College Of Veterinary Medicine

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https://news.thaipbs.or.th/content/292893

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Pet Care

Udon Thani Kennels

Published

2 years ago

March 4, 2020

Udon Info

Going on holiday or somewhere where you can’t take your pet? Udon Thani Boarding Kennels offer large, purpose-built accommodation for your pet at a very reasonable price. We can look after any animal and being true animal lovers we treat the pets like our own, we do not leave the animals caged all day and we try to give them a home from home environment.

ต้องการหาสถานที่ให้น้องหมาเพื่อจะไปพักผ่อนใช่ไหมค่ะ เชิญค่ะเรามีสถานที่รับดูแลน้องหมา กรงและสถานที่กว้างใหญ่และราคาเป็นกันเอง ทางเราดูแลสัตว์เลี้ยงด้วยความรักเสมือนครอบครัวค่ะ ทางเราไม่กักขังสัตว์เลี้ยงไว้ในกรงตลอดเวลาเราจะปล่อยวิ่งเล่นเปรียบเสมือนบ้านของเค้าเองเลยค่ะ

The area is covered by CCTV cameras that are constantly loaded up to the cloud and can be viewed remotely.

Our current rates are –

200 baht per night (owner supplies the food)
275 baht per night (we supply the food)

Please call Ueangfa on 0972904744 (English and Thai) for further details.

Email: udonkennels@gmail.com:

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/UDONKENNELS/

ราคาที่พัก
200บาทต่อคืน (เจ้าของสัตว์เลี้ยงนำอาหารมาเอง)
275บาทต่อคืน(สำหรับทางเราให้จัดนำอาหารให้เอง)

สนใจสอบถามติดต่อ 0972904744(คุณ เอื้องฟ้า) หรือแวะเข้ามาดูได้น่ะค่ะ

udonkennels@gmail.com:

https://web.facebook.com/UDONKENNELS/

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Business

ThaiPet ID – Animal Microchipping and Identification

Published

2 years ago

February 3, 2020

Udon Thani Info

Losing a pet is a traumatic experience, pets become a part of the family and while we do our best to keep them safe many are lost each year without much chance of finding them. Microchipping offers the most effective method of pet identification and reunion, the practice is proven worldwide and ThaiPetId offers a full service from registration of pets who are microchipped abroad to supplying implant kits and readers here in Thailand.

Our service does not just offer an implant service it offers a centralised database of implanted pets, one database and one call centre, this increases the chance of you finding your pets, here at ThaiPetID we do not see the point of chipping an animal with no real way of finding out where it was chipped.

Every practice that offers our service will have a chip reader so if a pet is lost they can be taken to any of these practices and identified and reunited with their owner.

Most pets that are being exported from Thailand must be microchipped and increasingly the Thai government is talking about making it law that ALL cats and dogs are chipped and registered.

ThaiPetID will donate 10% of profits to the Soi Dog Foundation.

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Business

Emergency 24 Hour Vets (Animal Hospital) Udon Thani

Published

4 years ago

January 3, 2019

Udon Info

We recently found out that more or less all of the animal hospitals within Udon Thani which advertise a 24 hr service do not, there was an emergency where a dog had been poisoned and needed immediate treatment, after phoning endless vets and even knocking on their doors we got no response until we luckily came across MC Animal Hospital, they do not only offer the 24 hr service but they also have a 24 hr home visit veterinary service…. the dog that was poisoned is still not 100% but she is going home today… If you are a pet owner be sure to make a note of this number as you never know when you might need it!

And Mandy was the lucky dog saved by this veterinary hospital

Address: 10/371 ต.หมากแข้ง ถ.โพศรี ตรงข้าม พิพิธภัณฑ์อุดร (ราชินูเก่า), Udon Thani 41000

Call 042 241 819 or mob 081-391-0506

Emergency 24 Hour Vets (Animal Hospital) Udon Thani

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