DISTEMPER IN DOGS.

Shannon News, 28 March 1929, Page 3

DISTEMPER IN DOGS.

HOW TO DETECT AND CURE THE DISEASE. A subscriber who has had much to do with dogs, especially working animals, communicated ro the Palmerston Timers some points for the detection and cure of distemper which had been prescribed by the Wallaceville laboratory.

The first symptoms of the trouble are hard to detect. The dog may have fits, with some frothing at the corner of the mouth. Distemper takes ten days to incubate. The animal’s temperature is high for two or three days, then drops. This gives the unwary owner the Impression that the dog is all right and this is the point at which the animal 'is lost, for the temperature rises again and stays up for two or three weeks, with pneumonic, complications in many cases. •

Everything should be dene to keep the temperature down.. The dog should be kept warm and diy and all excitement or distress should be avoided. No exercise at all should be permitted. Every three hours for the first two or there days, five grain quinine tabloids (a lesser dose for small dogs) should be administered. If there is constipation, give a tablespoon of liquid paraffin. Cod liver oil twice a day keeps up the’ dog’s strength. . Diet should consist of raw meat, milk, soup with vegetables or toast, but no bread. 5 In six months the Wallaceville laboratory hopes to have ready for general use a serum which has been used very effectively in Great Britain.