Happy Humpday from us and a few of your favorites 🤗🐱🐈🐕
This is Binx. He was found in the road lost and undernourished by a good Samaritan. He is rambunctious, and loves to play all day. He is currently recovering from a skin issue and has had his first vaccine and deworming.
Binx is small with a big personality and is looking for a forever home.
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Update:
Lucky is free and clear of any remaining neurological deficits and will be leaving us tomorrow to go to his forever home🐱🏡
We continue our series on Heartworm Disease.
Warning: The video is graphic
Part 2: Heartworm disease
Once a dog becomes infected, the larval journey takes five to seven months. During this time the worms are growing, developing and preparing to mate but the infection is undetectable and the dog shows no signs of infection.
A heartworm infection causes damage in many different ways. The following information explains in detail how heartworm disease causes damage and therefore the clinical sign we see.
1. Pulmonary artery and lung inflammation
At the end of this long migration, the worm lodges in the pulmonary artery. A mature female heartworm can grow to between 12 and 14 inches (females are longer than males) and there can be multiple worms present. The dog’s immune system recognizes the foreign proteins in the worms and responds with inflammation (recruitment of immune cells) that involves the pulmonary arteries and the lung tissue surrounding these arteries. The pulmonary arteries, themselves, enlarge becoming more tortuous as a result, which produces one of the typical patterns of heartworm disease seen on chest x-rays.
The inflammation calls in numerous immune cells that in turn generate even more inflammation as they attempt to destroy the parasite. The lung itself becomes inflamed and over time becomes scarred by the infiltration of fibrous tissue. This creates pulmonary hypertension due to the heart having to work harder to push blood through a damaged lung with high-resistance.
2. Wolbachia bacteria
Wolbachia pipientis, a bacteria which happily lives inside the heartworm will add to the inflammatory response. Large numbers of this bacteria are released into the blood stream every time the heartworm molts to a new developmental/larval stage, gives birth to microfilaria, or dies.
3. Great vessel and heart failure
Infections with large worm burdens, common in the Bahamas, amplify problems. In some cases the great vessels such as the pulmonary arter
WE CANT HANDLE THE CUTENESS!!!🐶😍
Cuteness overload on a Saturday morning!🌤🐶
Being Friends Is Easy
Let's make this a goal for 2017 to all just get along
Woman with 1000 cats and counting
Woman has 1000 cats Plus 600lbs Litter
Me when a dog dies in any movie
Ok so new year is fast approaching I see
