STUDY OF ANIMAL CONTROL SYSTEM IN A VETERINARY CLINIC USING THE ARDUINO PLATFORM

A study of a software package for monitoring the state of animals has been carried out. An algorithm for the operation of the system for monitoring the state of animals has been compiled. special attention is paid to the way the modules interact with the Arduino platform.

Forming the Dog Internet

Over the past decade, many systems have been developed for humans to remotely connect to their pets at home. Yet little attention has been paid to how animals can control such systems and what the implications are of animals using internet systems. This paper explores the creation of a video call device to allow a dog to remotely call their human, giving the animal control and agency over technology in their home. After building and prototyping a novel interaction method over several weeks and iterations, we test our system with a dog and a human. Analysing our experience and data, we reflect on power relations, how to quantify an animal's user experience and what interactive internet systems look like with animal users. This paper builds upon Human-Computer Interaction methods for unconventional users, uncovering key questions that advance the creation of animal-to-human interfaces and animal internet devices.

Epitheliotropic lymphoma-induced disseminated ulcerative dermatitis in a dog

Diagnostic Exercise from The Latin Comparative Pathology Group. Clinical History: A young adult, spayed female dog was presented for necropsy by animal control, with concerns for abuse in the form of chemical burns. Necropsy and Microscopic Findings: There was marked alopecia and coalescing ulceration affecting approximately 60% of the integument, roughly evenly distributed over the body. Affected areas included the mucocutaneous junctions, the palmar and plantar surfaces of the limbs, the paw pads, and the nasal planum. Ulcers measured up to 1 cm in diameter, frequently coalesced, and varied in stage of development; some were prominent, dark red, and shiny with roughened borders and others contained pink granulation tissue. In areas of alopecia without ulceration, the skin was smooth and glistening. The nails were variably sloughed; some digits possessed a bare quick and some had nails up to 3 cm long, but which were separating from the underlying quick. The dog was in adequate body condition.

A Municipal Tail

This project examines municipal animal control in Los Angeles between 1880 and 1909. It traces the emergence of municipal animal control from the confluence of animal welfare reform and progressive state expansion. The animal welfare movement in the United States began in the Colonial Era, but soon reflected the influence of changing attitudes in Europe and the rise of anti-cruelty reform movements after the Civil War. As Americans sought to create a better world out of the ashes of that war, many looked towards animal welfare. This movement occurred first on the East Coast, beginning with Henry Bergh’s founding of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in 1866, and reached Los Angeles by the end of the century. Many in that growing city viewed the dawn of the twentieth century with optimism, hoping for L.A.’s ascendancy into the ranks of the nation’s great metropolises. As a result, they began to look at the city’s problems through an increasingly progressive lens. Newspapers had covered the animal impoundment system’s brutality since the 1880s, but by the end of the century, they carried dramatic exposés of cruelties and corruption at the pound that emphasized connections to larger social issues. Citizens, including an impressive number of women, became activists for animal welfare. The municipal government responded by passing an ordinance that put animal control in the hands of the Humane Animal League, a private animal welfare organization. When the League failed to handle the city’s burgeoning animal population humanely and efficiently, the city assumed responsibility for animal control and created a municipal system. The emergence of municipal animal control in Los Angeles demonstrates a city turning to the extension of state power at the local level to create a more humane and efficient world for both its human and animal inhabitants.

Facts about Wildlife Diseases: Raccoon-Borne Pathogens of Importance to Humans—The Raccoon Roundworm

Diseases carried by northern raccoons present significant health hazards to both people and pets. This 7-page fact sheet written by Caitlin Jarvis and Mathieu Basille and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation is part of a series addressing health hazards associated with raccoons. It describes the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, baylisascariasis, which normally causes little or no trouble to raccoons but in severe cases can make people and their pets very sick. Sick wild animals can act tame, but do not approach! Contact animal control or a wildlife rehabilitator if an animal seems to be behaving abnormally or if you suspect it is sick.

Raccoon-borne pathogens: Parasites

Diseases carried by northern raccoons present significant health hazards to both people and pets. This 7-page fact sheet written by Caitlin Jarvis and Mathieu Basille and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation is part of a series addressing health hazards associated with raccoons. It describes the most important internal and external parasites associated with raccoons. Sick wild animals can act tame, but do not approach! Contact animal control or a wildlife rehabilitator if an animal seems to be behaving abnormally or if you suspect it is sick.

Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement

Due to inherent and systemic biases, animal control policies in the US are over-enforced in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in worse health outcomes for the pets in these communities. These outcomes are exemplified by higher confiscation, relinquishment, and euthanasia rates, lower return to owner rates, and extended lengths of stay in animal shelters. The Humane Communities framework operationalizes One Health and One Welfare concepts to comprehensively address issues of inequity at both the individual and structural levels to improve animal control policy and outcomes. Person-centered and culturally competent policies and programs that focus resources on addressing root causes of pet health and welfare issues as opposed to an emphasis on code enforcement can create more positive, scalable, and sustainable improvements in human, other animal, and environmental health and welfare outcomes. This shift from punishment-oriented approaches to support-based models of animal control aligns the animal welfare field with the modern human social justice movement.

Study of the Outbreaks of Bovine Rabies Occurrence in Orellana, Ecuador the 2012-2018 period

In Ecuador, a government institution is responsible for applying regulations for official animal control of rabies and reducing to non-dangerous levels. However, in Orellana, no documented bibliography serves as a resource to assess risk. An observational study was carried out of the bovine rabies outbreaks occurrences from 2012 to 2018 period. With the SAS statistical package were obtained; descriptive statistics as well as interquartile values of the cases presented for then build an endemic channel and shows accumulated prevalence rate for each year. We resulted indicated that was presented a total of 44 cases to rabies during all period study. Finally, we can tell the frequency of the disease did not show marked seasonality due to climatic factors.

Urban Greening and Human-Wildlife Relations in Philadelphia: From Animal Control to Multispecies Coexistence?

City-scale urban greening is expanding wildlife habitat in previously less hospitable urban areas. Does this transformation also prompt a reckoning with the longstanding idea that cities are places intended to satisfy primarily human needs? I pose this question in the context of one of North America's most ambitious green infrastructure programmes to manage urban runoff: Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters. Given that the city's green infrastructure plans have little to say about wildlife, I investigate how wild animals fit into urban greening professionals' conceptions of the urban. I argue that practitioners relate to urban wildlife via three distinctive frames: 1) animal control, 2) public health and 3) biodiversity, and explore the implications of each for peaceful human-wildlife coexistence in 'greened' cities.