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Dearest doc
I am having a guinea pig with UTI and as I think my vet is less exposed to treating exotic animals I like to know the antibiotic which are safer for guinea pigs. I wish to talk to you over the phone ?
Mahender Sharma Delhi

Dearest Mahender,
Antibiotics causes disturbances in gut microflora of G.Pigs which leads to diarrohea and
sometimes irreversible. Most of the time vets prescribes penicillins and its synthetic derivatives which are really unsafe and may causes enterotoxemia so the commonest antibiotca are avoided for G.pigs viz .ampicillin and amoxicillin( plane or potentiated ).

However potetiated sulha ( trimethoprim+ sulha ) drug are safe for them and for the urinary tract infections they are very good and surely give good resuts when given for two weaks .
Good luck.
Dr S.P.Singh

09316197450

Sir,
I am a person who is into looking after animals of
all kins.I feed quite a lot of stray dogs too.Recently
I came across a female mongrel who was bleeding from
the vagina.
I called the vet who said it has got vaginal
tumour.He has given it an injection.The bleeding had
stopped fpr a few days.Now it has slowly started
again.Could you suggest any sort of treatment for the
same.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Capt.Krishna Kumar E Mail-sailor_boy_ph@yahoo.com

Advice

Transmissible veneral granuloma/tumor is a kind of tumorous condition in dog which can be treated successfully with vincristicine sulphate @ 0.5 mg /m2 body surface area intravenously commonly available with the chemists .

In India the is very common in stray dogs and can be life threatning if not treated .Thanks to you for your concern for the stray animals.

Get the dog injected every weak and usually 6 shots are required .Care should be taken to give the injection in proper dose and to avoid perivascular sepage.The injection do have few temporary side effects.Somtimes antibiocs are needed with this as the white blood cell count is low in this disease.

Sirs,
I would be highly grateful if you could please be
kind enough to let me know where in India,I would be
able to buy Frontline Plus Anti Flea medicine.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Capt.Krishna Kumar.
N.B.Would be grateful if you could send me their phone
nos too.I am at Manipal.Karnataka.

Advice

Sending you the frontline plus on your mentioned address as mentioned over telephone via courier.Us it as per accompanied intructions.

Hello Doctor,

I got your information while i was looking for vet
advice for our 8 year old german shepherd "Tiger".Last
year since diwali he has bleeding in one nose.Since
then he has been bleeding on and off but for the past
few months his bleeding has increased.

My father took him to the veterinary hospital but they
could diagnose the problem. His blood work,x ray
everything came back normal.Per the vets his ecg was
little abnormal they said that's because of his age.
Unfortunately they do not have mri or scan facilities
in chennai.His regular vet suggested that one of his
nerves might be damaged.

Please advice if we can give him any medication or any
other course of treatment.Any advice or feedback is
appreciated.

Thanks
Sangeetha
Dearest Sangeetha,

I am really sorry for your pet.

So many tests and not a single abnormality!!!!!!
I am suspicious .

Now using my clinical accumen I can say that the
blood tests are not normal and I am sureof that. kindly get the
cbc with platelet count .His platelet count
will be surely below normal.

I have seen a good number of apperantly normal dogs
with epistaxis (nasal bleeding) suffering from
protozoan diseases.

get me the platelet count as soon as possible.

s.p.singh
Hello Doctor,

I would like to thank you for your valued opinion. We
are based in florida and our german sheperd is in
chennai with my parents.

I have asked my father to get the platelet count as
early as possible.Also he will be undergoing an
endoscopy tomorrow.Unfortunately the vet even refused
to give the report,this is supposedly the best vet
hospital and college in chennai.

We would like to help our pet in whatever we can and
its unfortunate that 8 years is considered an old age,
whereas in usa dog lives as long as 15 years.

Sincerely
Sangeetha

Oh yes
madras vet college is very good, but i dont know why they refused .

very sad

your father can get blood sample collected and examined from some private practitioner there .

keep on updating me regarding his health.

s.p.singh

Caterina DSouza wrote:

I am on a visit visa in Doha Qatar and due to return home to Goa soon. My daughter's pet a Pekingese female dog is much attached to me so I wish to take her home but I am told the dog has to be booked by airway bill as cargo in accordance with the regulations. My questions are;-
1) Do I need an Import Licence? How do I get one?
2) Where will I get delivery of the pet when I arrive at the International Airport in Mumbai?
3)Can I book the dog in a kennel as checked in baggage with Indian Airlines for taking it from Mumbai to Goa.
Plese reply soon as I need to leave Doha by 1St September 2007. Thanks

Dearest Caterine

Thanx for the query.

There is no problem taking a dog as an accompanied baggage.
even from USA you can bring 2 dog with one person.

I have seen there is no problem taking a dog in international flights ,but sometime private indian airline may show reluctancy ( illmannered or say illinformed less courteous staff) but there is no problem.

1. buy one kennel or say a cage for transporting a dog .It is available with petshops .Its a hard plastic safe for traspoting a readily accepted by airline staff.

2.put a steel feeding bowl with water .

3.take a health certificate from a vet .

4.do take vaccination cerificate.

there is no problem taking a dog in flight at all.
happy journey.

do inform me again.

s.p.singh

Caterina DSouza wrote:

Dear Surendra pal Sing,

Thanks for the reply but I did not get any reply from you to my three specific questions regarding Import Licence and the place where delivery can be taken if dog is booked as cargo.

I am aware of all other requirements regarding Health certificate etc. as those are mandatory requirements of Qatar.

Qatar Aviation has introduced a rule that no live stock can be taken as cabin baggage not even pet dogs. All passengers have to book their pets as cargo for taking the pet on the same flight as themselves.

For obtaining an airway bill for my pet as cargo in an approved kennel I will meet all the mandatory requirements at this end. However I do not know if I will encounter problems in Mumbai for collecting my pet which is going to be booked as cargo.Possibilly it will not come as my other un-accompanied baggage on converyor and I may have to go to the cargo complex which is outside the passenger arrival terminal.

Hence my three queiries were put to you in my earlier mail. I hope you will be able assist in sending me a reply as requested earlier.

Thanks and Regards.

surendra pal singh <sp_vet2003@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Dearest Caterine,

I contacted Dr Josan at Gurgaon who is in contact with a vet Dr Khosla posted at Delhi airport for Disease survellience who will be again available on Monday .I will try to get Dr khosla Phone numberfor you as he can help you if you do have any problem at Mumbai .

Kindly do enquire at disease survelliance office at Doha.

and with regard to import licence I can only inform you on monday as on that day only the office is open ( saturday and sunday being the holiday)

s.p

Dear Surendra pal Singh,

Your promptness in replying to my mail is very impressive and I thak you so much. You must be a great animal lover. In fact I can't even remmember how and from where I got your Email ID. Is it from the website of PetIndia or Indiapets.com please enlighten me.

You also seem to be very resourceful and I look forward to read your mail on Monday with information about Import Licence and the telephone contact for Dr Khosla.

Where are you located dear? Are you doing honrary work for some Pet Lover's Society like in Panjim Goa we have PAWS>Panjim Animal Welfare Society<

Regards

Dearest caterina,

Thanx for the appriciation.

You may have so many website or web help over the net but none is from India .
So I started an amataur work w.r.t to help over the net for the pet lovers in India.

your appriciation and good words will surly encourage me to do more .

Now a days I am situated at Chandigarh.

website is www.pethelpindia.com

s.p.singh

Dearest Caterina

Please do enquire with the airline people to avoid any inconvenience .

Dr Biswas is at mumbai airport for the disease surveillance .He is the main concern w.r.t to animal coming from abroad .You can talk to him.I personaly dont know him but if you feel any inconvience I can help you I can talk to him at the hour of need .His phone number is 022-27552021 ( office).

Dr Khosala who is at delhi for disease surveillance gave us his number.

Happy journey

Feel free to ask anything

s.p

Hi,

Congratulation for starting this one of its kind website for pets in India. I would like to give my feedback that you may extend your website for pet lost/missing & found cases also. Since there are lot of such cases occuring in NCR, your site can offer a common platform for people with such problems.
I, for one, have lost my pet dog in recent past and was searching the internet for any kind of help for finding my missing dog, hence I came across your web site.
Hope my feedback is of some value to you.

Good Luck and Best Regards
Anjali

Dearest anjali

thanx for the feedback.

Its very sad that your pet is missing and I can understand your feelings

I pray to god for early recovery of your missing pet

the only help I can render is to paste the picture of your missing pet on home page thats the best possible help I can render.

please do post the pet perticulars and picture ASAP

s.p
Dear Sir,

I just saw Bocha's pics on your website. Thanks a lot for this help. I shall keep you updated about the progress in this matter.
In case ever I am able to help you in any matter (my family is of lawyers), it will be my pleasure.

Thanks and Regards
Anjali

From: sangeeta salvadi <sangeeta.salvadi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Subject: please help: scabies in puppy.
To: pethelpindia@yahoo.co.in

Respected Sir,
In the month of march we found this puppy (male)(a stray dog's puppy in our colony)sitting in front of our gate scratching crying it was in a horrible condition with lots of skin infection.we named it jimmy. we took it to a government vet hospital where they suggested for deworming(albomar) , avil injection and aillan caincine injection. IT DID NOT RECEIVE ANY VACCINATIONS TILL DATE.
As we did not knew about jimmy's age the vet doctor said its around 3 mnths old. even though we followed the prescribed medicines there was no significant change. later we opted for another multi-speciality hospital located in hyderabad and they prescribed atarax syrup, bayrocin tablet (150mg) 1/4 th every day. continued these for 15days.we found very significant change after using these medicenes but suddenly there this appearence of red coloured pappules in his abdomen region, groin, pits of his forelegs and in just two days his condition worsened to itching, biting, self inflicting wounds,crusts of dry skin on nose and between the toes in paws, loss of hair in the all four legs, some kind of foul smell.
Due to this i searched the internet and read about many skin diseases related to dogs and found out that the symptoms of my puppy exactly matched with scabies/mange and also that till now all my vet doctors misdiagnosed the puppy condition.due to handling the puppy i also got the same red papules in my skin near the leg,thigh regions making my doubt regarding scabies more suitable.
The images i am attaching are sourced from internet as my camera resolution is not good enough but the severity of jimmy is similar to the puppy in the pic. since 20 apr i am giving neomec(ivermectin) tablets (10 mg) --5mg in morning and 5mg in night. Topically i am applying a nemlent oil: ingredients --neem oil, karpoor, sulphur,turmeric,karanja oil.
My main concern is that though the puppy sleeps peacefully during day making be relieved and hopeful that its condition is improving during night it scratches itself so badly that there is again puffiness and redness. My family is adamant on sending it out of home saying that there is no hope for such a puppy. But i do not want to just leave hope .........in these two months i have developed such an emotional bond with the puppy that i cannot think of abandoning or sending it to blue cross. please help.

* IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR SUCH PUPPIES ???

* IN HOW MANY DAYS CAN I EXPECT SOME IMPROVEMENT IN JIMMY'S CONDITION? I FEEL MY FAMILY IS DECIDING TOO EARLY .....ITS BEEN JUST 2 DAYS.

* PLEASE HELP .............YOUT MAIL WILL BE MAJOR DECIDING FACTOR TO CHANGE MY FAMILY DECISION.

AWAITING YOUR KIND RESPONSE.

S.SANGEETHA.
PHYSIOTHERAPIST(M.P.T

)
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CONTINUE TREATMENT FOR AROUND 15 DAYS

S.P

Respected Sir,
I am very thankful for your reply. I have shown your mail to my family and they changed their mind.In these four days of treatment there is significant change in its condition.I am also trying to take puppy's pic now and then to know the improvement. Hope by the end of 15-20 days it will be back to normal and will feature in picture of the month section in your website .
Once again thanks a ton.

S.Sangeetha.